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He Doth Protest Too Much

  • David Gilmore
  • February 29, 2016
I’ve begun to question my place in society, my place in a country that wants me to remain silent. Mostly, I question my choice to remain silent.
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American Ambiguity

  • Afsheen Farhadi
  • February 15, 2016
My racial awareness, perhaps even my awareness of myself as a person, self-consciousness, is a three-pronged paradox of shame, pride, and indifference.
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The Rumpus Interview with Alida Nugent

  • Jaime Herndon
  • February 10, 2016
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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The Rumpus Interview with Sunil Yapa

  • Kyle Lucia Wu
  • January 11, 2016
Sunil Yapa discusses his debut novel, Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist, radical empathy, growing up surrounded by politics, and losing the first draft of his novel in Chile.
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The Rumpus Interview with Margo Jefferson

  • Dylan Foley
  • October 9, 2015
Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Margo Jefferson talks about her new memoir, Negroland, and about growing up in an elite black community in the segregated Chicago of the 1950s and 1960s.
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The Rumpus Interview with Melissa Gira Grant

  • Amanda Bloom
  • September 23, 2015
Melissa Gira Grant talks sex workers’ rights, labor politics, the novelty of women’s sexuality, and her book, Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work.
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