The Saturday Rumpus Interview: Ijeoma Oluo
Ijeoma Oluo is a writer and activist. I was fortunate to have the opportunity to chat with her about her upcoming Badass Feminist Coloring Book as well as her experience with online feminism, activism,...
View ArticleWeekend Rumpus Roundup
First, Brandon Hicks contemplates the strange game of pricing art in “The Forgetful Painter.”And in the Saturday Interview, Arielle Bernstein talks to illustrator Ijeoma Oluo about her new publication,...
View ArticleThe Saturday Rumpus Essay: Suffragette and Feminist Inaction
Suffragette tells the story of the women’s suffrage movement in Britain during the early 1900s. In its telling of the story of how women fought for the right to vote, the movie highlights problems with...
View Article2015, Year of the Badass Woman?
As it’s most commonly used, badass implies both toughness and disaffectedness. It’s rare to look at someone whose chief qualities are measured thoughtfulness and open emotionality and declare her a...
View ArticleThe Hell of Personal Writing
When I give lectures to writing students I tell them to not get discouraged if they do not enjoy writing. “I hate writing,” I say, “It’s horrible. It’s hell.” They are shocked every time, but I mean...
View ArticleWhat the Cameras Show Us: Ourselves
I am a thirty-two-year-old white, heterosexual, married woman. I walk through the world with privilege. I am not always lucky and my life has not been easy, but I have also never been afraid for my...
View ArticleThis Week in Essays
At Real Life, Emma Healey makes a well-stated case for why Periscope’s Couch Mode may be the escape we all need. Ijeoma Oluo has written an important essay on the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. for...
View ArticleWhat to Read When 2018 Is Just Around the Corner
It’s true that 2017 was a terrible year in so very many ways, but it was a remarkable year for reading. (We shared our favorite books from the first half the year here, and from the second half of the...
View ArticleWhat to Read When You Want to Celebrate Black History
It’s Black History Month, and while The Rumpus celebrates writing by black artists year-round, we thought it was especially important to share a list of work written exclusively by black writers this...
View ArticleNotable San Francisco: 4/4–4/10
Wednesday 4/4: Pandemonium Press presents “On the Road Again.” Free, 7 p.m., Octopus Literary Salon (Oakland). “Facades Everywhere.” Free, 7:30 p.m., The Bindery (SF). YA author Jenn Polish reads...
View ArticleWhat to Read When You Want to Celebrate Feminism
This Sunday is Mother’s Day, and as our wise Managing Editor Lyz Lenz tweeted recently, “the perfect Mother’s Day gift is the end of the patriarchy.” While we can’t promise to shut down the patriarchy...
View ArticleNotable Portland: 5/31–6/6
Thursday 5/31: The Meadow writing residency and the Submission Reading Series are proud to present a reading to fundraise for both groups, featuring Catie Hannigan, Erin Howe, Ally Harris, Kate...
View ArticleThis Week in Essays
“Are you ready to end these chapters and fight for new ones? For better ones? Chapters where you are not the worst villain of all — the bystander?” Ijeoma Oluo writes urgently about how we all have to...
View ArticleNotable NYC: 9/21–9/27
Saturday 9/21: Mona Awad, Nick Mancusi, Mike Sacks, Katrina Dodson, and Brittany Allen celebrate the latest issue of McSweeney’s. Books Are Magic, 8 p.m., free. Sunday 9/22: Don‘t miss the 2019...
View ArticleNotable Online: 1/3–1/9
Monday 1/4: Don Colburn and Lesley Wheeler join the Word Works with Café Muse and The Writers Center. Zoom, 7:30 p.m. EST, free. Jaya Saxena discusses Crystal Clear: Reflections on Extraordinary...
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