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Terror in Mennonite Bolivia

In an extraordinarily disturbing Vice article, Jean Friedman-Rudovsky describes an ultra-conservative Mennonite colony in Bolivia in which a horrifying series of rapes occurred (and may still be occurring): a group of men…

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Master of Feeling Ambivalent

There are a lot of people who have very strong feelings about MFA programs, but Blake Butler’s Vice piece “What I Remember from Getting an MFA in Creative Writing,” just sort…

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Not Your Average Mexican Tourist Destination

I can’t afford a $3,000 American tooth implant, but luckily, I’m spending this summer at my Somali aunt and uncle’s house in Yuma, Arizona—a town only ten miles away from…

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“How Do We Become More Than What’s Sold to Us?”

I imagined the sour-faced exec watching the video of our conversation and asking the teens why he paid for a bunch of queers to talk about Andy Warhol, and I…

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Thoughts on Gender from A “Manic Depressive Nightmare Girl”

Girls rule, etcetera. But men are not afraid of girls. Girls never did and don’t now “run the world,” and if we believe Bey when she sings so, it’s only…

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Fuck It

“My point is this—if you want to be happy in showbiz (or any creative field), listen to that voice inside you. Even if it says ‘Fuck it’ sometimes. Work with…

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Candid Convo with Edmund White

Vice interviews author Edmund White. The conversation covers porn, the perfect man, “gay-lit,” and a lot more. “No one tries to figure out how someone ended up straight, though it…

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Lin’s New Weekly Venture

Drug-Related Photoshop Art is Tao Lin’s new weekly column in Vice. As per Lin-style poetry, it involves contemporary cultural references interspersed with notable, historical artists. That being said, get ready…

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Politics

Politics Sunday

“One in four Americans is employed to protect the rich.” Here’s an underreported story: Dominicans are coming to the aid of Haitians, despite a less-than-idyllic history between the two countries.…

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The Sunday Rumpus Book Blog Roundup

My relationship with the book blogs has hit a snag. Today, we got in a throw-down fight, and I came pretty close to breaking some china. It’s just that the…

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Swedish Vibrations

“I got the idea to exchange each word in a poem I’d written with an emotionally equivalent sound. When I had exchanged all the words, I had made an electronic…

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