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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Casa Azul Cripple
“I wanted to be sexual/sexualized, but not fetishized. But was becoming someone’s fetish the only way? How was being fetishized different than being desired for having a unique, unrepeatable shape…or would the one leg always and forever be the only…
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Proof of Loss
As her new pregnancy progresses, Emily Rapp explores the human choices of survival and happiness after the wreckage.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Grief Magic
“I’m like an alcoholic who doesn’t drink anything but worst case scenarios…” In the aftermath of trauma, Emily Rapp struggles to give up being “on call” for grief.
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Dirty or Clean?
I felt like an arrow of sheer desire, flying through the air in a small town and emblazoned with this unfortunate tag line: “Newly single mother of a dying baby.”
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Sunday Rumpus Essay: Shadows and Ghosts: Batman, Thomas Cromwell, and the Corporation of Yaddo
Emily Rapp returns to the movies, with a meditation on Batman, grief, the shadows of Yaddo, and the inspirational power of weakness.
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Transformation and Transcendence: The Power of Female Friendship
Here’s the truth: friendships between women are often the deepest and most profound love stories.