From the Archive: Rumpus Original Fiction—The Christmas Party
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...moreIt is only by holding Whitman accountable for all of his language that we can also love other parts of his language and poetics.
...moreNneka M. Okona discusses her new book, SELF-CARE FOR GRIEF.
...moreJoy Ladin discusses the new edition of THE BOOK OF ANNA.
...moreBut look at this poet-speaker speaking the unspeakable!
...moreDeborah A. Miranda discusses her new collection of poetry, ALTAR FOR BROKEN THINGS.
...moreÉireann Lorsung discusses her new collection of poetry, THE CENTURY.
...moreWho “owns” the English language?
...moreKyle McCarthy discusses her debut novel, EVERYONE KNOWS HOW MUCH I LOVE YOU.
...moreLiz Prato discusses her essay collection VOLCANOES, PALM TREES, AND PRIVILEGE.
...moreGabrielle Civil discusses EXPERIMENTS IN JOY.
...moreDanez Smith discusses their new collection, HOMIE.
...moreHow do we transcend generations of trauma and let go of our burdensome past?
...moreI don’t believe in redemption stories.
...moreThe banning of women’s nipples is, of course, violence in and of itself.
...moreLaura Lippman discusses her newest novel, LADY IN THE LAKE.
...moreI was a lonely, dreamy, occasionally silly girl.
...moreIt’s just their story, and we don’t have to believe a word of it.
...moreThe most important idea within the book is that our anger, in all its shapes, is justified.
...more“My gut instinct is to privilege rebels.”
...moreIan Morris discusses his new novel, SIMPLE MACHINES.
...moreMy voice begins to crack so I clear my throat. I look at each one of the girls one by one. The heat in me rises. My skin feels like the Texas pavement in July.
...moreAs a longtime fan, it pains me to say it, but Sarandon is everything that’s wrong with mainstream, non-intersectional white feminism.
...moreTo 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.
...moreMaybe I can touch it and show it to you. If I convince you, we can call it real. And then perhaps it will be.
...moreThe power of names is intricately woven into the fabric of our identities. At The Establishment, Jené Gutierrez recounts an argument with her editors over using the correct rendering of bell hooks’s name, and how language has historically functioned as a site of white privilege and domination.
...moreWhen I decided I needed to write this piece, I spent a lot of time wondering whether I could. Whether I should.
...moreAuthor Daniel José Older talks about his new novel, Shadowshaper, noir influence in urban fantasy, gentrification, white privilege and the publishing industry, and why we need diverse books, now more than ever.
...moreBlood and smoke and broken windows aren’t the only images out of Baltimore (though they sure do get good ratings).
...moreIt’s very hard to imagine a president getting up and talking about how damaging the fear of terrorism has been to us, culturally and politically, and how much it’s horribly undermined us. Looking at torture and all the other things that have been done in the name of counterterrorism, it’s really quite disturbing what we’ve […]
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