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Rumpus Articles
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A Poetics of Witness: Jeddie Sophronius’s Interrogation Records
Sophronius writes from an awareness of Chinese Indonesian marginality, yet the pulse of the collection’s counternarrative coheres around an Indonesian national identity.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: I Couldn’t Say It Was Tuesday
“You need to watch the news. Aren’t you interested in the world? Very important to know what’s going on in the world.”
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Redefining Memoir: A Conversation with Jackie Domenus
For queer and trans writers, our narratives are usually not traditional or linear.
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What to Read When Walking Through a Graveyard
What is lost so that a book may live? What is shoveled so that a memoir may memorialize?
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Unearthing the Sediment of Stories in Our Bodies: An Interview with Lidia Yuknavitch
When I’m inside creativity or making art, it feels like a worthy place for a person like me to spend her life.
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There Would Still Be Love: A Conversation with Matthew Nienow
I’m committed to and interested in this kind of deep accountability and honesty.
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On Snorting Human Remains
One of my friends, Enzo, had just died, and he’d probably felt a similar way, invincible and lost.
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To Write about the Way You Read is to Write about the Way You Live: A Conversation with Sarah Chihaya
…to write about the way I read, I also had to write about the way I lived
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Queer Mormon Joy Beyond the Fairy Tale: AJ Romriell’s Wolf Act
…the sacred and the profane are hidden in each other’s disguises, like Red Riding Hood’s Granny with her suspiciously sharp teeth.
