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Mama’s Fancy Stripper Heels: Working Mothers Dish

  • Jessie Glenn
  • August 27, 2019
[A] person’s labor is not indicative of their parenting.
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Voices on Addiction: Happy Birthday to Me

  • Andres Chulisi Rodriguez
  • May 21, 2019
As long as I could feel, I was going to get high.
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Market Researching My Desire

  • Elizabeth A. I. Powell
  • January 3, 2017
I noted the weirdness, and then filed it away until a time I might really consider the implications of wanting to bury someone’s stockings. I was lost in metaphor, which meant I was lost in everything.
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The Rumpus Interview with Laura Albert

  • Meredith Maran
  • December 19, 2016
Laura Albert discusses her alter ego JT LeRoy, Jeff Feuerzeig's documentary Author: The JT LeRoy Story, her complicated relationship with her mother, and life as a hustler.
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“Pussy Fever” Loves “Locker 29”

  • Antonia Crane and Cheryl Strayed
  • January 26, 2011
A Conversation with Cheryl Strayed, who is against sex work, and Antonia Crane who agitates for sex worker rights, about sex work and feminism.
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SPACE AVALANCHE: Wilson

  • Eoin Ryan
  • March 7, 2010
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