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Performing Violence: A Conversation with Jocelyn Nicole Johnson

  • Barrett Bowlin
  • October 6, 2021
Jocelyn Nicole Johnson discusses her debut story collection, MY MONTICELLO.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Karen Salyer McElmurray

  • Chris Moore
  • June 10, 2021
“The grief felt like giving birth, these waves of pain and then receiving.”
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Arrest Record

  • Desiree Cooper
  • June 22, 2020
A Black boy, no matter how young, was not a child. He was a future criminal.
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Racism Shouldn’t Be Shocking: Toppling American Myths

  • Abigail G. H. Manzella
  • August 8, 2018
Let us teach something new to the next generation that speaks to the lessons we’ve learned.
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Interrogating the English Language with Safiya Sinclair

  • Laura Creste
  • March 27, 2017
To be forced to speak in the language of the colonist, the language of the oppressor, while also carrying within us the storm of Jamaican patois, we live under a constant hurricane of our doubleness.
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Learning to Work with Rare Books

  • Ian MacAllen
  • July 8, 2015
In 1983, Terry Belanger created a curriculum for librarians to learn how to deal with rare books at Columbia University. Nine years later, the University of Virginia hired him and…
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The Rumpus Saturday Essay: Stain

  • Sharon Harrigan
  • December 13, 2014
It’s hard to remember why I was silent. Maybe, like some of the women only now reporting they were raped by Bill Cosby decades ago, I was afraid I wouldn’t be believed.
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Rolling Stone: A Rumpus Roundup

  • Ian MacAllen
  • December 5, 2014
Last month, Rolling Stone ran an article by Sabrina Rubin Erdely detailing the gang-rape and attempted coverup of a student at the University of Virginia known as “Jackie.” . Today,…
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