Everyone You Meet Is God in Drag
If the art of drag has taught me one thing, it’s that I am not unique.
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Posts Tagged: makeup
FUNNY WOMEN: A Makeup Look for Nuclear Anxiety
[W]hat’s more thrilling than making the world more beautiful one haggard, agitated face at a time?
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ENOUGH: The Art of the Cover Up
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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FUNNY WOMEN #153: So You Want to Be a Woman
If the eyes are the window to the soul, then the drapes should match the wallpaper. Fix what you got and then flaunt what you fixed!
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Jade Chang
Jade Chang discusses her new novel The Wangs vs. the World, citizen journalism, and how to write an immigrant story that’s not all about pain.
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America Again
I felt urgently that it was the moment to tell the story of what I’ve learned about American music—or maybe about being an American.
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(K)ink: Writing While Deviant: Ames Hawkins
Is it really that human capacity is limited? Or are we limited by what it is we believe we are able, and allow ourselves—are willing—to see?
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The Rumpus Interview with Alida Nugent
Alida Nugent talks about her new book You Don’t Have to Like Me: Essays on Growing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding Feminism, the messiness and realness of sex and sexuality, and putting likeability last.
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“A ‘Fuck You’ to Women Everywhere”
I can imagine complaining along these lines in an editorial meeting at a British publishing house, and being sighed at: “Yes, of course the 1960s cover is beautiful – I love it – but Waterstones and Tesco won’t stock it.” At the London Review of Books‘ blog, Fatema Ahmed takes a critical look at the cover of a […]
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