Double Birthday Time!
Happy birthday to Toni Morrison (who turns 82) and Audre Lorde (who would have turned 79)!It’s hard to overstate the importance of their fight to make the voices of women of color heard, and perhaps...
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Rumpus pal W. Kamau Bell talked to prominent hip-hop video-blogger Jay Smooth in an interview spotlighted over at Racialicious.The two discuss homophobia in hip-hop and the eminent wisdom of black...
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The Rumpus Interview with Daisy Hernández
It turns out I have been waiting for A Cup of Water Under My Bed, the September 2014 debut memoir by Daisy Hernández, since I first encountered her incisive literary style and original feminist voice...
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The Rumpus Interview with Maggie Nelson
I have known Maggie Nelson for more then ten years. We met in NYC just before she decamped to Los Angles to teach at CalArts. Maggie is that rare writer, a true woman of letters. She writes poetry,...
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The Rumpus Review of [insert] boy by Danez Smith
I was hooked by Danez Smith the first time I read him: “I come to you out of ink, of breath, of patience, & almost emptied of any belief that there is anything in this country that doesn’t seek to...
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Anna March’s Reading Mixtape #1: For White Folks Who Think They Aren’t Racist
Let us all listen to the brilliant writer Claudia Rankine, discussing race, white liberals, and her book Citizen, in a recent interview with BuzzFeed:BuzzFeed: You mentioned liberal subjectivity in an...
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The Saturday Rumpus Interview: Josie Pickens
Josie Pickens is a writer, social activist, and teacher. I’ve long appreciated her thoughtful, incisive essays on race, gender and class, on sexuality and sensuality, on justice, love, and being a...
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Poetry as Peace Work
Over at Los Angeles Review of Books, Leah Mirakhor engages poet Robin Coste Lewis, 2015 National Book Award winner of Voyage of the Sable Venus, in deep and generous conversation about writing and...
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: (On My Throat)
“We can sit in our safe corners mute as bottles, and we will still be no less afraid.” –Audre Lorde When has enough time passed for me to write it—how long do I have to wait before I am not in it...
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Visible: Women Writers of Color #5: Tara Betts
Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare. –Audre Lorde I reached out to author and professor Dr. Tara Betts to talk about the...
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Poem of the Day: “Power” by Audre Lorde
Dark day, today. And a frustratingly relevant poem, visceral and bursting with rage. Audre Lorde is a hero to anyone who has felt similar rage towards injustice. She taught us so much and we’re still...
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This Week in Trumplandia
Welcome to This Week in Trumplandia. Check in with us every Thursday for a weekly roundup of the most pertinent and relevant content on our country, which is currently spiraling down a crappy, toilet...
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Where You Put It on the Line: A Conversation with Mychal Denzel Smith
If you weren’t paying attention, it might appear that Mychal Denzel Smith exploded onto the scene in 2013. With a regular column in Feministing, as a Knobler Fellow for The Nation Institute, appearing...
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #87: Kai Cheng Thom
Rarely is birth silent for anyone involved. Silence, instead, is a learned phenomena. Unlearning silence can become its own birth, as it seems in Kai Cheng Thom’s debut poetry collection a place called...
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VISIBLE: Women Writers of Color: Lisa Factora-Borchers
Last year, I heard through the social media grapevine that the anthology Lisa Factora-Borchers had edited, Dear Sister: Letters from Survivors of Sexual Violence (AK Press, 2014), was going into a...
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What to Read When It’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Once again, it’s October and Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and we’re all seeing the world as a little more pink. Julia Louis Dreyfus recently announced on Twitter that she has breast cancer. We’re...
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More Than Just a Single Identity: A Conversation with Camille T. Dungy
In her prose debut, Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History, Camille Dungy, a poet-lecturer, travels through America with her newborn daughter. She is intensely...
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The Text Is My Body: A Conversation with Gabrielle Civil
Gabrielle Civil’s book, Swallow the Fish, is an account of artist collectives and art history, from the perspective of a woman of color. It’s an exploration of the interiority/exteriority of life as a...
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What to Read When You Want to Read about Feminist Saints
Earlier this month, The Little Book of Feminist Saints was released from Random House. Written by Julia Pierpont and illustrated by Manjit Thapp, this inspiring collection honors one hundred...
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What to Read When You Want to Celebrate Women’s History
Today is the last day of Women’s History Month, and while we celebrate women year-round here at The Rumpus, we wanted to close out March with a list of books written exclusively by women and that shine...
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