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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #75: Deborah Kampmeier

I met Deborah Kampmeier at a workshop in November. We were two weeks post-election; the room was raw with emotion, and electric with conversations about resistance. This tall, badass woman dressed…

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The Rumpus Interview with Joe Okonkwo

Joe Okonkwo discusses his debut novel Jazz Moon, the quest for self-discovery, creative inspiration, and what it means to build a family when home is so very far away.

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What to Read When the President Withdraws Protections for Transgender Students

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(K)ink: Writing While Deviant: E. A. Longfellow

The way I think about my writing is similar to the way I think about my kink—both have to do with history and the ethics around appropriation.

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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Ideal Lover

I don’t mind being left with a bruise if it reminds me that someone imagined something for me, that art can be part of the experience.

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Good Girls Revolt and Female-Focused Sex on TV

Sexual politics run through the very veins of this show. They are its blood, and they know how to get the female viewer’s heart pumping.

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Weekly Geekery

The hot young things of science fiction. Avoid IKEA with your lover today. Love, loss, and a spritz of psychology.

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Sunday Rumpus Poetry: Five Poems by Jan-Henry Gray

Dry-mouthed, standing shoulder to shoulder, / They watch the carousel spit out black bags / And mumble "not mine" over and over.

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Rumpus Original

The Sunday Rumpus Essay: I Died of Dysentery

The glorious ways we fifth graders died in Mr. Mosher’s computer class. We strove to die in the most imaginable permutations possible.

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The Rumpus Interview with Jerald Walker

Jerald Walker discusses his memoir, The World in Flames: A Black Boyhood in a White Supremacist Doomsday Cult, the story of his childhood in The Worldwide Church of God, and how the act of writing delivered him from bitterness.

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On Self-Reliance: Frank Ocean as Emersonian Hero

As Emerson recognizes, someone who couldn’t care less about how they come across is all the more charismatic and convincing.

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This Week in Short Fiction

This week, rising voice Emma Horwitz writes about teenage girls looking for some under-the-pants action (if you know what I mean (I’m talking about fingering)) at Vol. 1 Brooklyn. Horwitz’s…

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