Posts Tagged: valentine’s day

SquareRoot of Love: Beyond the Divide

By

We need some love back, especially from elected and community leaders.

...more

SquareRoot of Love: A Wine and Words Dinner

By

This food as love repairs, protects, and grows the heart and soul.

...more

Mixed Feelings: A Valentine to Aging Women

By

Letting go of these ideas about a woman’s value feels like the obvious thing to do, but it’s really hard.

...more

SquareRoot of Love: Broken Heart

By

We must find a way to keep the roots of love and justice strong.

...more

What to Read When You Love a Feminist Mother

By

Sophia Shalmiyev shares a Valentine’s Day reading list to celebrate her debut memoir, MOTHER WINTER.

...more

This Is What I Get for Wanting

By

When I cried over the phone, asking him if he was dumping me, he said in his gentle voice, “Sweetheart, we weren’t really a thing yet.”

...more

SquareRoot of Love, Politics, and Power

By

If we really believe that love is important and necessary then where is it, especially when it comes to world politics and power?

...more

The Queer Valentine of the Century: Jenny Johnson’s In Full Velvet

Reviewed By

In Full Velvet offers the truth of a woman’s life—the queer truth, the queer rose, the queer valentine. And everything is different after that moment of initiation, instantiation.

...more

Weekend Rumpus Roundup

By

First, shaky cultural bridges are strengthened through mourning in Lito Velázquez’s Saturday Essay, “A Taste of Something, Slowly Over Time.” Then, Brandon Hicks offers an illustrated early Valentine’s Day treat: true love and eternal happiness is churned out in the automated romantic experience of a lifetime. Finally, in the Sunday Essay, Beth Roddy recalls the rite of passages offered in […]

...more

A Valentine from Andrew W.K.

By

During his takeover of The Talkhouse’s Instagram, Andrew W.K. took requests from fans for Valentine’s Day cover songs: Dolly Parton’s “I Will Always Love You,” Meat Loaf’s “I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That),” Cheap Trick’s “World’s Greatest Lover,” Alice Cooper’s “Only Women Bleed,” and The Righteous Brothers’ “Unchained Melody” all made […]

...more

This Week in Short Fiction

By

Valentine’s Day, the annual celebration of romance, named after a martyred saint who doesn’t have anything to do with love, is almost here. In recognition of the holiday, The Cut is providing a refreshing counterpoint to the flowers-and-chocolates narrative with “True Romance: five days of stories about love as it’s actually lived,” which includes a […]

...more

A Different Kind of Valentine

By

Looking for a last-minute Valentine’s Day gift for the book-lover in your life? Why not pay that gift forward to your community? Romance novelist Anna DeStefano’s Hearts for Hearts initiative “to give back to their communities by donating books they already own to nearby assistance groups” such as “homeless shelters, Medicaid nursing facilities, or similar […]

...more

Weekend Rumpus Roundup

By

If your fingers aren’t too frozen to click, here’s the weekend Rumpus roundup. First, our film editor Anisse Gross reviewed Hilton Als’s new book White Girls: Each time I took it out of my bag, people glanced at me wide-eyed, as if merely the title White Girls was too much out-loud talk about race in public. Then Joshua […]

...more

Aural Fixations, The Rumpus Mixtape #11: Conversation Hearts

By

Conversation Hearts Two Words. Infinite Meanings. True Love. Missed Connections. 50% Divorce. First Date. Happy Nights. Sad Days. Star Crossed. Wedded Bliss. Bad Breakup. Holding Hands. Making Out. Great Sex. Poly Love.

...more

The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup

By

Happy sexin’ day, everyone! This isn’t my favorite holiday, so I’m gonna let the Book Bench do all the talkin’ about it with these Dear John letters and some blogging on emails and romance. Carolyn Kellogg at Jacket Copy points us in the direction of another person calling some sort of fiction dead. The next person who […]

...more

The Rumpus in your inbox!

* indicates required