Rumpus Original
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Rumpus Original Fiction: One of Them Dies
We seldom forget when people promise to give us something, whether we need or want that thing or not. I promise you death, you want a death.
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VISIBLE: Women Writers of Color: Morgan Jerkins
Morgan Jerkins discusses This Will Be My Undoing, getting her start on the Internet, and why her collection of linked personal essays isn’t just another Millennial read.
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ENOUGH: A Woman Who Is No Longer Ashamed
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Sarah Blake
Sarah Blake discusses her new collection, Let’s Not Live on Earth, questions in poems, monsters, and the challenge of writing a dystopia.
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Rivers of Babylon: The Story of a Third-Trimester Abortion
She said something to me, then, that has been a great comfort. “You had a choice,” she said, “but you did not have free will.” A choice that was no choice at all.
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Those Freemartin Girls
Meeting that freemartin was a revelation for me: justification for my off-gender mannerisms and body, another creature bridging the space between male and female.
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An Ethnography of the Self: Talking with Morgan Parker
Morgan Parker discusses her writing process, approaching an idea from various forms, and how moving from NYC to L.A. has changed her work.
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The American Woman
[A]s the world found out on January 28, 1986, an extraordinary circumstance can also be an unimaginable tragedy.
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What to Read When You Want to Read Women on Home
A list from Margot Kahn and Kelly McMasters to celebrate the release of This Is the Place: Women Writing about Home.
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Moving Toward Answers: A Conversation with Stephen Mills
Poet Stephen Mills discusses his first two collections, He Do the Gay Man in Different Voices and A History of the Unmarried, teaching writing, and what’s next.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Analicia Sotelo
And sometimes the poems were like that. / When we wrote knife, bubbly, naked, / we were really getting down, / dancing hard on the injury.
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: John Linnell’s Sentimental Nimslo
Photos carry our memories, and in their own unique way our cameras do, too.