The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Trisha Low
Trisha Low discusses her new book-length essay, SOCIALIST REALISM.
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What to Read When You Want to Avoid the News
From drugs to celebrities to murder to just plain good writing, here are five books that offer us a brief respite from the onslaught of terrifying news.
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Female Friendships and Online Literary Sexism
As an essayist who often writes from personal experience and who’s working on a memoir, I believe deeply it is a feminist act for women to tell their stories.
...moreHow Toxic Is Online Feminism?
There’s a heated conversation about online feminism happening—where else?—online right now. Ignited by a piece in the Nation about Internet toxicity as well as an ill-advised xoJane piece about white privilege in yoga class, the discussion is focusing on intersectionality in feminism, particularly as it regards race. Latoya Peterson has a lot of really smart stuff […]
...more“It Happened To Me” Aftermath
Rumpus cartoonist MariNaomi wrote a powerful essay at XOJane about being sexually harassed during a comic convention panel. “This isn’t the first time this has happened to me. Years ago, at another comic convention, a fellow panelist blatantly looked me up and down and said it was “getting hot in here” — onstage, humiliated in […]
...moreWomen Speaking Up
For Slate, Amanda Hess reports on a boom in the publication of personal essays about women’s issues like rape, abortion, or an eye-poppingly grotesque parasite infection that we’d rather remain ignorant of: These stories are emotionally electric, politically relevant, and powerfully told. They’re also first-person confessionals about women’s reproductive issues—the type of taboo tales typically churned […]
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The Rumpus Interview with Mandy Stadtmiller
Mandy Stadtmiller, writer, comedian, and the deputy editor of xoJane, talks about promoting positivity in women’s journalism, why no one gets hired because of résumés anymore, and the importance of maintaining a writing and editorial staff with differing opinions.
...moreDown with Marriage?
Meghan Murphy at xoJane thinks that marriage is a tool of patriarchy. To her, rejecting marriage is the feminist choice. Marriage has been an institution within which women have suffered abuse, rape, murder and forced reproduction. It’s an institution that guaranteed men a maid and someone to bear and raise their offspring. It’s not that […]
...moreWriter’s Mom Downplays Feminist Heroism
“…her husband was an alcoholic, but so clean cut. I didn’t really put two-and-two together until she came to me and said, ‘I need your help. My husband is going out of town soon, and I’ve got to leave while he’s gone or he’ll kill me.’” At xoJane, Haley B. Elkins writes about the help […]
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