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The Rumpus Interview with D.A. Powell
Read Catherine Brady’s interview with D.A. Powell here.Related Posts:The Rumpus Original (Supersized) Combo with D.A. PowellD.A. Powell’s Chronic—The Rumpus ReviewThe Rumpus Interview with Daniel...
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The Atlantic has assembled articles in a special report for World AIDS Day.The Guardian gives their own report on AIDS and HIV. Included is a gallery of photos revealing how the day is being marked...
View ArticleSafe Sex Onscreen and Off
Yeah, yeah, Obama, hurray(!) and stuff. What we were all really dying to know is if Measure B would pass in Los Angeles County.The answer is yes, it did, and porn actors will now be required to wear...
View ArticleOnly the Lonely (Have Serious Health Problems)
Loneliness is more than just a feeling, according to an article in the New Republic. It’s a biological process that activates your physical pain responses and trashes your immune system.Here’s one of...
View ArticleThe Remarkable Life of China’s “AIDS Granny”
In the 1980s, when it became apparent that HIV was blood-borne, China banned blood donations from outside the country—but instituted no other HIV-related tests or regulations, not even against reusing...
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Intersections, On the Anniversary of the Rodney King...
One of these mornings, you’re gonna rise up singin’Then you’ll spread your wings, and you’ll take the sky,But til that mornin’, there’s nothing can harm you…Billie Holiday is wailing on a cassette in...
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Working Draft of Another Life
We open in a wide framing shot of autumn-tinged trees lining a schoolyard. A procession of first-graders walk-run-skip down the sidewalk circling the school. They are doing this, as the lead teacher’s...
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Forgiving my Father, the Serial Rapist
The winter following the devastating earthquake in Haiti on January 12, 2010, I visited my mother often, mostly on Sundays when the echoes of the many news stories on CNN still lingered throughout the...
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(K)ink: Writing While Deviant #2: Michael Broder
There’s evidence that D.H. Lawrence enjoyed an erotic power exchange relationship with his wife, that James Joyce was into scat (among other things), and that Oscar Wilde—well, most of us know what...
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The Rumpus Interview with Jamie Brickhouse
Propelled by sharp wit and fierce hilarity, Jamie Brickhouse’s Dangerous When Wet: A Memoir of Booze, Sex, and My Mother is a smart, deftly crafted memoir that chronicles his intimate, near-fatal...
View ArticleThe Saturday Rumpus Essay: Surprising the Psychic
Lester stood at my door out of breath and unexpected. I invited him in to the air conditioning, but he stayed on the front porch, curiosity and compassion in his eyes as he squinted and scanned me....
View ArticleThis Week In Indie Bookstores
A New Paltz, New York bookstore with an anti-Trump sign is fighting a ban against it.An Egyptian bookstore has a “scream room” where customers can scream as loudly as they like.With the Gilmore Girls...
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Scarecrow
We had no money. I didn’t get along with most of my class at a wealthy-parents-all-boys Catholic high school in Omaha, Nebraska. Comments, looks, and often fights began over how much of an outlier I...
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: I Died of Dysentery
I died of dysentery even before I knew what dysentery was. I died of measles and a snakebite. I died of typhoid. I died of starvation. I died of cholera and exhaustion. I died of drowning and a broken...
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Bad Blood
Sophomore year of college, on my school’s monthly blood drive day, I was seduced by a sign outside of a Big Red Bus that decreed, “You can be a hero! Donate blood and save three lives today!” The sign...
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Just Chaste Me
Beverly Hills, 90210 taught me how to have sex. In the penultimate episode of the first season, back in 1991, Brenda Walsh (Shannon Doherty), the seventeen-year-old female lead, lost her virginity to...
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A Deeply Human Act: Don’t Call Us Dead by Danez Smith
For the boys of Danez Smith’s National Book Award-finalist collection, Don’t Call Us Dead, _____every year, days get longer. time clogged with boys. the boys O the boys. they still come in droves. the...
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Moving Toward Answers: A Conversation with Stephen Mills
I like to imagine meeting Stephen Mills in Florida in 2012: he and his partner Dustin driving north to their new home in New York City, my partner Angie and me driving south to our new home in Miami....
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Afrofuturist Triptych for My Mother
“This sort of metaphorical literacy, the learning to decipher complex codes, is just about the blackest aspect of the black tradition.” – Mark Dery I. Transnational Spatio-Temporal Flows (the...
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ENOUGH: Crime and Composure
ENOUGH is a Rumpus series devoted to creating a dedicated space for essays, poetry, fiction, comics, and artwork by women and non-binary people that engage with rape culture, sexual assault, and...
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