Ancient Grains Archive
Brief Interviews With Childfree Men
Ancient Grains, Interviews
Dec 30, 2013
I like to think that there are a fair amount of things about me that are notable. My refusal to wear socks until it snows. My obsessive love of cleaning out the lint trap and making tiny lists. One thing people tend to hang onto, though, as soon as they learn it
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A Note From Ani DiFranco
Ancient Grains, Humor
Dec 30, 2013
(For reference.)
Hi. I'm Ani DiFranco. You may remember me from such things as singing like a wizard trapped inside an aged toad is trapped inside of my throat and being allergic to capital letters. I'm here to talk to you about something that's very close to
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How To Tell If You Are In A Noel Streatfeild Novel
Ancient Grains, Books
Dec 30, 2013
Previously in this series: How To Tell If You Are In A Haruki Murakami Novel.
1. You are young, though you find yourself growing up very quickly.
2. You are ridiculously talented at one very specific thing.
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Literary Trysts It Gives Me Great Joy To Think About: Tracy Chapman and Alice Walker Used To Go Out (With Each Other)
Ancient Grains, LGBT
Dec 30, 2013
Previously in Literary Trysts It Gives Me Great Joy To Think About: Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman totally did it.
There are precious few things in life worth knowing; the fact that celebrated American novelist Alice Walker and legendary folk singer Tracy Chapman had a romantic relationship in the middle of the
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Link Roundup!
Ancient Grains, The Internet
Dec 30, 2013
Welcome back! We missed you! We may republish a few things you might have missed, but we may not. Poke around!
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Super cool old pictures of the Ross Sea Party.
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There is actually not much point in telling you
Fit For a King: A Queer Poly Triad Buys a Bed Off Craigslist
Ancient Grains, Weird True Tales
Dec 25, 2013
This, the Toastiest piece ever written, is brought to you by our own Tia Baheri on behalf of Abigail, who really doesn't need more Navy in her closet this holiday season.
It's 9PM on a Tuesday and I'm in a U-Haul cargo van with my two female-bodied romantic partners riding fifty minutes
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Bird Of The Month: Hoopoe
Ancient Grains, Animals
Dec 24, 2013
Last month: the goldfinch.
The hoopoe is twice-blessed, fortunate in both its English name (hoopoe) and its Latin one: upupa epops. Sometimes people call it the common hoopoe, but there is nothing common about this bird. Here’s a bunch of them striking various poses:
Hunting For Witches
Ancient Grains, Racism, Writing
Dec 24, 2013
I’m starting to believe that my boyfriend’s father is the New England mascot for the worst of white male privilege. Naturally, such privilege is bedazzled with the nicotine-flavored, boisterous rumblings of unflinching homophobia and an admiration of Reagan-era conservatism. It’s a badge of paternal lordship, sharpened by the nervous-titters of his obedient
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