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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Transparent and the Evolving Culture of Shame
In Transparent, during an early scene with their1 eldest child, Mort is sitting on a bed, trying to explain something difficult for a daughter to understand. Negotiating her own confusion, Sarah asks,...
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In the Saturday Essay, Kenny Ng evaluates the groundbreaking show Transparent and its attempt to raise awareness of transgender and genderqueer identities. In the show, Arrested Development’s Jeffrey...
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Anomalisa, the Insanity of Capitalism, and the Power of Culture
A few weeks ago I spent some time with a group of lefty friends a bit older than me, who have been active in workers’ rights and other struggles for a very long time. Someone said: “If you want to see...
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Literature’s Second-Class Citizens
All my life, I have tried to keep quiet. As an Asian-American who grew up in the 1980s in places where whites were the majority, I wanted to assimilate. I didn’t want to be that minority, you know, the...
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I Love(d) Dick, but Not the Show
Chris Kraus published I Love Dick in 1996, and until 2012, it sold only about a thousand copies per year. It was a difficult read that hit home with a few feminist academics who were impressed with...
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The Rumpus Interview with Eileen Myles
Eileen Myles is a force. A poet, writer, performer, and 1992 write-in presidential candidate, she has authored more than twenty volumes across different genres. To me, she is poetry incarnate. Her work...
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Sound & Vision: Lois Weaver and Peggy Shaw
A lost set of costumes led to the chance meeting of Lois Weaver and Peggy Shaw in Europe in the 70s, when each was touring with her respective theater troupe. Along with Deb Margolin, they founded...
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The Thread: Dress Codes
Over the summer, my daughter and her preschool friends were playing “superheroes.” Because her school has a strict “no TV characters” policy, the children came up with their own superheroes based on...
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Lesbian Poetry’s Vatic Voices: The Specter of Ecocatastrophe
I. During the Women’s Liberation Movement, poets were scribes of passion and purpose for the movement; they operated as theorists and visionary holders of hope. In recent years, lesbian-feminist poets...
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