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Lesbian Poetry’s Vatic Voices: The Specter of Ecocatastrophe

  • Julie R. Enszer
  • January 8, 2020
Change happens. It is dramatic. Poetry transformed lesbian lives.
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  • Marissa Korbel
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The Thread: Dress Codes

  • Marissa Korbel
  • October 16, 2018
How much of gender and identity is about dressing up as the part?
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  • Allyson McCabe
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Sound & Vision: Lois Weaver and Peggy Shaw

  • Allyson McCabe
  • October 26, 2017
Allyson McCabe talks with Lois Weaver and Peggy Shaw, two of the founders of the performance group Split Britches, about their lives and work.
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The Rumpus Interview with Eileen Myles

  • Zoe Tambling
  • February 24, 2017
Eileen Myles on recording her new poetry record Aloha/irish trees, the relationship between poetry and comedy, and finding safety in social media.
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I Love(d) Dick, but Not the Show

  • Emily Bogin
  • December 1, 2016
It’s difficult, if not impossible, to convey the arc of a series of letters in a TV show. Words flash on the screen at regular intervals in bright Helvetica.
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Literature’s Second-Class Citizens

  • Nancy Kim Park
  • September 1, 2016
They’re there but not there. They’re included but their stories don’t fully weave into the story.
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Anomalisa, the Insanity of Capitalism, and the Power of Culture

  • Jacques Servin
  • January 19, 2016
Our insane system: does it feel too risky to bring this up in the mainstream press?
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup

  • Max Gray
  • February 16, 2015
In the Saturday Essay, Kenny Ng evaluates the groundbreaking show Transparent and its attempt to raise awareness of transgender and genderqueer identities. In the show, Arrested Development’s Jeffrey Tambor plays…
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Transparent and the Evolving Culture of Shame

  • Kenny Ng
  • February 14, 2015
There's a ray of nuclear longing at the center of Transparent...
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