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Multitudes: (Re) Writing Mother

  • Christine No
  • May 30, 2017
I like to listen to my mother’s voice; the sounds she makes in an English-Korean mashup; we are each the other’s dictionary.
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The Future of Body Horror: Can Our Art Keep up with Our Suffering?

  • Davey Davis
  • January 26, 2017
The individuality of body horror is its signature attribute. Nothing is more intimate than one’s own body, and by extension, one’s own physical suffering.
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Womanly Arts

  • D.M. Moehrle
  • January 17, 2017
This is the hearth. This is the knot. This is home. The woman bent over a sewing machine, the steady hum of the motor, the needle rising and sinking.
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The Truth About Lying

  • Antonia Crane
  • January 16, 2017
My gut is a red, fiery drum, a beacon of rosy light. My instinct to run is a bright radioactive pink arrow, a bloody blade. I was correct.
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This Week in Trumplandia

  • Buffy Flores
  • January 12, 2017
Welcome to This Week in Trumplandia. Check in with us every Thursday for a weekly roundup of the most pertinent and relevant content on our country, which is currently spiraling…
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Friendless Female Sex Workers

  • Kyle Williams
  • August 8, 2016
Not only are these characters destined to die in the cautionary tales and to endure marriages to self-congratulatory men in the redemptions tales, they don’t even have anyone to miss…
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(K)ink: Writing While Deviant: Amber Dawn

  • Amber Dawn
  • August 2, 2016
What do we as writers tell each other about the intersections of trauma and desire? How do we encourage (or discourage) each other to reveal the power and tensions in those margins?
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Summer of Love

  • David Breithaupt
  • June 7, 2016
Charlotte Shane, best known for her newsletter portraying her life as a sex worker and philosopher, Prostitute Laundry, now has a column at Fusion. Her collected writings are also available in…
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Missing

  • Antonia Crane
  • June 1, 2016
I long to learn from my darkest teachers, feel the stab of their spectacular rejection. Perhaps I feel most alive when I’m hurting.
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Mary Wept over Sex Worker’s Rights

  • Amanda Hildebrand
  • May 12, 2016
At The Believer, Shannon Tien caught up with Chester Brown, graphic novelist and author of the newly released Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus, which Tien describes as “essentially a…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #52: Lauren Wissot in Conversation with Stoya

  • Lauren Wissot
  • April 5, 2016
Edited by queer porn performer and LGBTQ activist Jiz Lee, Coming Out Like a Porn Star is a wide-ranging compilation of answers to questions only sex industry pros seem to…
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My First Year as a Dominatrix Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Myself

  • Esmé Crane
  • January 26, 2016
What is a career, and how does it define us?
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