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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Gene Kwak

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • November 17, 2021
Gene Kwak discusses his debut novel, GO HOME, RICKY!
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Happily Never After: A Conversation with A.A. Balaskovits

  • Colette Arrand
  • October 1, 2021
A.A. Balaskovits discusses her new story collection, STRANGE FOLK YOU’LL NEVER MEET.
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We Are More: Shattering the Ethnic Monolith Myth in The Gimmicks

  • Aram Mrjoian
  • August 3, 2021
To say the past is in the past ignores the abundant ways it controls their lived experience.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #201: Brian Alan Ellis

  • Jon Lindsey
  • December 5, 2019
“Loneliness is a way of life, man… like punk!”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #95: Gabe Habash

  • Ryan Krull
  • August 3, 2017
Gabe Habash’s Stephen Florida is a three-hundred page manic unraveling of the titular Stephen’s psyche, told over the course of one season of collegiate wrestling. In the opening pages, Stephen…
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On Homosexuality and Wrestling with a Faith that Doesn’t Want You

  • Lyz Lenz
  • May 29, 2014
In Chelsea Station magazine, Brian Bouldrey writes about editing Wrestling with the Angel: Faith and Religion in the Lives of Gay Men, and about how he’s still wrestling with faith…
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Medieval Mongolia’s Undefeated Wrestling Princess

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • December 23, 2013
Genghis Khan had a great-granddaughter named Khutulun (the cousin of Kublai Khan), and it sounds like she was a total badass: As she grew older, she joined the public competitions…
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¡Qué Vivan Los Exóticos!

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • September 9, 2013
Mexico’s lucha libre—professional wrestling conducted by bombastic masked luchadores—is fairly well known in the United States. But many of us haven’t heard of los exóticos, gay luchadores who often wear makeup and…
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And in This Corner…The Emancipator!

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • February 22, 2013
Previously, we blogged about how Abraham Lincoln grew his trademark beard partly because of a letter from a little girl. As it turns out, that’s not the only surprising biographical…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #28: Alex Behr in Conversation with “The Fugitive”

  • Alex Behr
  • September 7, 2010
Dave “The Fugitive” Jansen, thirty, is a professional mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter with Oregon’s Team Quest Fight Club. Our talks took place prior to his World Extreme Cage Fighting…
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Margaret Cho on The Wrestler and Wrestling and Youth and S&M and Violence

  • Margaret Cho
  • April 7, 2009
Comedy hadn’t taken off yet for me, and so I tried to get as many jobs as possible. Wrestling seemed like it would be easy.
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