Ever Wonder How Student Loans Work?
There’s been a lot of talk the last few years about the increased cost of a college degree, and how government aid hasn’t kept pace with need. Lots of politicians and activists have spoken and written...
View ArticleModern Day Serfs
The US student loan burden surpasses the trillion dollar mark, ushering in the potential for another loan bubble crisis like that of 2008 and subprime mortgages.Natalia Antonova recounts her all too...
View ArticleCracks in the Foundation of the Ivory Tower
If the current economic state of academia seems grim, well, it is.In an essay for Dissent, Claire Goldstene plumbs the ins and outs of student-loan debt, the exploitation of adjunct professors, and...
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No Way Out at the Welfare Office
You’re one of the lucky ones. You’ve snagged a seat among the tight rows of chairs welded to the floor. You’re forced to sit intimately close to the people on all sides of you—enough so that you notice...
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat With Camille Rankine
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Camille Rankine about her new book Incorrect Merciful Impulses, student loan debt, history, and trying to be a writer every day.This is an edited transcript of...
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The America We Live in Now
I don’t consider myself a political person. To me, there are no “wrong” political beliefs. I believe that democracy means respecting everyone’s right to her opinion. And if I were forced to declare my...
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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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Reinventing Motherhood and Re-Dreaming Reality: Talking with Ariel Gore
I was a twenty-something gadabout when I first read Hip Mama in the mid-1990s, with no intention of having a kid any time soon. Even without a direct connection to the subject matter, I was taken with...
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Country, Black Ass, Queer Perspective: Talking with Michael Arceneaux
I just read some profiles of Michael Arceneaux to prep for interviewing him because I’m a moron who has no idea how to actually interview people. The first one I read compared his work to mine and I...
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A Body Is a Bill to Pay
My identity changed when I opened that envelope. I stood in my dusty kitchen, pantries bare, blinded by all those zeroes in the sum I owed. I’d already sworn off using the window air conditioning unit...
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