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From the Archive: Propelled by Questions: Animal by Dorothea Lasky

  • Mariah Bosch
  • June 22, 2022
The animal spirit of poetry brings us closer to our own humanity.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Randa Jarrar

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • February 23, 2021
Randa Jarrar discusses her new memoir, LOVE IS AN EX-COUNTRY.
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No Pressure: Bieber, Blackness, the Cult of Perfection

  • Willona Sloan
  • December 28, 2017
Bieber is like a prism that reflects back whatever you want to see.
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STRIPPERDADDY

  • Arch Jamjun
  • October 16, 2017
My thoughts hovered above the scene pondering the reasons why and time felt like the waves of a puddle lapping against cracked asphalt.
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The Saturday Rumpus Interview with Tommy Pico

  • Michaelsun Stonesweat Knapp
  • October 15, 2016
The more of us there are out here sharing our work and telling our own stories and flying our freak flags, being our intricate, strange, and idiosyncratic selves, the less power the monolith has.
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The Rise of Flex

  • Liz Wood
  • April 14, 2016
The Brooklyn-based genre of dance music that has thrived since the ’90s is beginning to reach far beyond the Brooklyn Masonic Temple, which has housed dance competitions in the genre for years,…
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Grace Jones Tells Everybody

  • Liz Wood
  • September 16, 2015
We’ve been looking forward to Grace Jones’s memoir, I’ll Never Write My Memoirs, since it was confirmed early this year, and the quotes leaking on the Internet (via Dazed Digital, among others) haven’t…
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“Happily Ever After” for African-American Romance Novelists

  • Christine Grimaldi
  • August 18, 2015
Romance novels can’t erase the past, and the present. Chapter by chapter, they do strive toward agency.
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Falling For The Femme Fatale

  • Devin O'Neill
  • December 20, 2014
If power is going to shift toward equality, men have to see power less as an inherent right and more as something we can be incentivized to relinquish.
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