Taking Back Control: A Conversation with Joseph Osmundson
Joseph Osmundson discusses his memoir, Inside/Out, intimacy, trauma, and the sometimes violence of desire.
...moreJoseph Osmundson discusses his memoir, Inside/Out, intimacy, trauma, and the sometimes violence of desire.
...moreRenee Simms discusses her debut collection, Meet Behind Mars, leaving law to become a writer, and writing through major life changes.
...moreMeet your new email system Femail, for the woman who emails.
...moreThe systems created for men by men are not sufficient in caring for women. Different bodies and chemical makeups, of course, require different treatments.
...moreNaima Coster discusses her debut novel, Halsey Street, getting pushback on her use of Spanish, and the importance of equity and inclusion in higher education.
...moreThe most important night for fragile male egos is nearly upon us.
...moreStretch. Listen in hundreds of different positions. Listen a little to the left; now a little to the right.
...moreWomen grooming their daughters to be good housewives teach them how to cook, no? A woman grooming her daughter to be something else in the world would keep her out of the kitchen.
...moreThe way the book is organized reflects Allen’s experience: the ability to meet a book with skepticism and find much to be admired.
...moreI just want to share a little bit about myself—because despite the fact that my horrific death is the point of the show you’re enjoying, you’ve never actually heard my voice.
...moreBacklash isn’t new to our Internet culture, but with Twitter and hot takes it does come for us a little faster.
...moreA Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary people that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
...moreSex doesn’t need to be shameful. Objectification should be.
...moreA new Rumpus series of essays, poetry, fiction, comics, and artwork by women and non-binary people that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
...moreThere is no pretention here toward lasting fulfillment, but there are quiet dinners of lentils and rice.
...moreA woman is simultaneously too many things and not enough at all, forcing her vibrancy to smudge into an opaque blur.
...moreI applied for a job at Hooters on a dare a few weeks before my nineteenth birthday. A shoe salesman who worked across from me at the mall told me he’d pay me twenty dollars to apply.
...moreTori Telfer discusses her first book Lady Killers and the fragile “social saran wrap” that keeps us all from killing each other.
...moreMy lover became the Pope. It was the twenty-tens and the Catholic Church wanted to rebrand with Newport cigarettes and Hermes chiseled calves.
...moreAnne Helen Peterson discusses her new book, Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman, her writing process, and academia.
...moreIn the last moment, the bird swerved away to the right. It soared high, wheeled in a circle, and dove again. This time, it pulled itself directly upward. Gold plumes flashed as it rose, wings churning as it turned.
...moreWriter, poet, and architect Yewande Omotoso discusses her second novel, The Woman Next Door, Cape Town’s haunting beauty, and mythologies about motherhood.
...more[I]n a book that argues we are divided and stuck in our own echo chambers, Sexton’s own divide goes unexamined, his own echo chamber unchallenged.
...moreErika L. Sánchez discusses her new collection Lessons on Expulsion, pushing back against sexism and misogyny, being a troublemaker, and donkeys.
...more…yet she did what she did, and in the process made the most successful album of her career.
...moreAs a longtime fan, it pains me to say it, but Sarandon is everything that’s wrong with mainstream, non-intersectional white feminism.
...moreThe artistic oeuvre of Cecil Castellucci is dauntingly varied and vast. A singer/songwriter, a playwright, a librettist, she is also the author of many books, ranging from the picture book Grandma’s Gloves (winner of the California Book Award Gold Medal) to the YA novels Boy Proof, Tin Star, and the part comic, part prose novel […]
...moreUsing dramatic monologue, Smith unmasks the skinhead’s anger to fend off threats to his way of life.
...moreCheryl Lu-Lien Tan discusses her new novel, Sarong Party Girls, concubine culture, and the freedom of writing fiction after a career in journalism.
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