On Suffering and Sympathy
What is the distance between sympathy and action? How do we travel from one to the other?
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Dedicate Your No-Trump Vote: Quentin James
What the hell do I have to lose in this country? Honestly, I don’t know where to begin.
Not Even Rumi is Safe from Hollywood Whitewashing
One of the world’s most read and beloved poets since the 13th century, and an immensely important artistic, academic, and spiritual figure in the Muslim community, is getting his own…
The Sunday Rumpus Interview: A Roundtable on Writing, Editing, and Race
With Lisa Factora-Borchers, Patrice Gopo, Jennifer Niesslein, Tamiko Nimura, and Deesha Philyaw.
The Double Agency of Will Smith in Sci-Fi
Smith’s characters act as witnesses for the rehabilitated offender, the white-supremacist nation-state.
#OscarsSoWhite: Calling Out Academy Bias
Instead of influencing our movie-going habits, The Academy can take its cues from us. We can continue to speak up through social media and—more importantly—our dollars.
White Women Dominate Publishing?
Man Booker prize-winner Marlon James was right: the people who work in publishing are overwhelmingly white and female. New data shows that publishing executives, editors, and the staff behind books are…
Killer Mike Chats with Bernie Sanders
The rapper has made clear his admiration for the presidential candidate before, but the recent hour-long conversation between Killer Mike and Bernie Sanders is more than a token of mutual…