Deficiency
I’ve never had a cavity, but I brush too hard. A decade ago, a dentist told me I was scrubbing away my own flesh.
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Pawn or Perpetrator: Nussaibah Younis’s Fundamentally
Younis, given her expertise in Iraqi politics and international affairs, offers welcome insight into a realm that is often only shown in snippets on the news.
Rumpus Original Fiction: We Tremble
I want them to say, wow look at Griselda now, thinking her shit doesn’t stink. And I’ll say back to them, it doesn’t 'cause I’m classy now!
Send in the (Lesbian) Clowns: A Conversation with Kristen Arnett
Not everything is going to be funny to everybody, but a joke is going to be funny to at least one person, one time, at a specific point.
What to Read When You’re Freaking out About Earthquakes
When I was six months pregnant, I became obsessed with the Cascadia earthquake.
Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Logan Fry
The load can be held aloft just as long / As I’m a quarry.
Wrestling with Bears: A Conversation with Robert Ostrom
When I write, I don’t set out to preserve anything. I feel more like a conduit for whatever obsessions, conscious or not, are inside of me.
ENOUGH: A Timeline of Harassment
I scramble up, smooth my dress, and slap him in the face. Hard. He takes it because he’s a nice Mormon boy.
“even as we all crowd the same body”: On Tetra Nova by Sophia Terazawa
To read Tetra Nova is to lean into nonlinear disorientation, flipping pages back and forth across time, scribbling in the margins of Vietnamese history.
A Door Isn’t Just a Door: An Interview with Lucy Rose
I collect things like a magpie. I need to try everything.
How to Workshop with White People
Follow these other guidelines to write, workshop, and receive mildly odd to offensive critiques with dignity...
On Tove Jansson’s Eccentrics and Oddballs
I saw my fears and yearnings magnified and reflected back to me in Jansson's stories.