vice
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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 used aerosol cow tranquilizers to incapacitate entire households and then…
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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 of lays out the details and holds back on the…
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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 Los Algodones, Mexico, where a new tooth costs $1,000. If…
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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 have to admit, I was INTO IT. The Rumpus’s Thomas…
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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 because she’s a woman. For Vice, Sarah Nicole Prickett writes a…
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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 takes just as much explaining as being gay. All etiological…
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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 for weekly laughter!
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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. VICE is taking a ton of heat for its treatment…
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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 blogs whine and worry and complain a lot, and they…
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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 composition without even knowing it. After that I’d found my…