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I want to tell her that Hunter is Hunter and Daisy is Daisy and both should be allowed to breathe. I want to tell her I know the instinct to split yourself in half, too, that I know the violence required to hold your true self in shadow, that I have another name I only dare whisper.
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I feel guilt in the not good enough I carry alongside the not bad enough.
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Kate Gaskin discusses her debut collection, FOREVER WAR.
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Sonora Jha discusses her new book, HOW TO RAISE A FEMINIST SON.
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We have to lead with our imagination, not with preconceived limitations.
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Gustavo “Goose” Alvarez talks with Cullen Thomas about PRISON RAMEN, and more.
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Tracy O’Neill discusses her new novel QUOTIENTS.
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We drive out, shedding tears inside, only for ourselves, only for the beauty.
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Paul Crenshaw discusses his debut essay collection, THIS ONE WILL HURT YOU.
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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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Dave Cullen discusses his new book, PARKLAND: BIRTH OF A MOVEMENT.
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What happens when we play along with something not real—does it become real?
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There was no map, no compass. Just me, the needle, and heroin.
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When I came home from war, I felt relief. Now that I’m home after childbirth, I’m still waiting for relief. War ends. Motherhood does not.
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Love twists itself into fear, into statistics, into things people can live with.
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What makes him think she’s in any less pain? Because hers isn’t prolonged by uncertainly, isn’t moored by hope.
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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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Until recently, coming out was almost always dangerous—not only to our careers and our relationships but also to our bodies. And so hiding was (and sometimes still is) a necessity.
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Jay Baron Nicorvo discusses his debut novel, The Standard Grand, how easy it is for civilians to forget about soldiers and veterans, and his longstanding love of animals.
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Have you ever seen a feathery shadow at the edge of your eye? Was it a figure? Did it cross into your vision, like a hummingbird there and gone?
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Up close, the beach was disgusting and tragic. A million tiny pieces of plastic were heaped on the shore like confetti from a hundred parades, or like the real sand on the beach threw up.
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When you pick up a pen instead of a rifle, you’re fighting an entirely different battle. This is my duty. This is my patriotism.
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As we begin our own Age of the Strongman, Hussein’s almost effortless manipulation—of soldiers expecting exactly that behavior—shows how susceptible we all might be to the sheer force of a big personality.
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“No one knows how to handle it,” I tell her, but I can see she’s angry and I’m speaking into the wind.
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Schultz enables readers to see past their own perspectives and empathize with both the Afghan child and the American war widow.
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It’s about greed; it’s about taking only the best part of things, the cream off the top, the fat. And this taking of the fat has reached a crisis point in America—a critical mass, if you will.
...moreJ.D. Vance talks about his memoir, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, the perils of upward mobility, and never forgetting where you come from.
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