Vocabulary Primer
This is a vocabulary-based reference for Roxane Gay's recently published "Still With the Scarlet Letters."
Roxane Gay
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Roxane Gay served as Essays Editor in the early days of The Rumpus, where she contributed many essays and interviews for the magazine. Some of her original pieces, first published here, found a home in her widely acclaimed New York Times bestseller essay collection Bad Feminist.
Still with the Scarlet Letters
Last week journalist Mac McClelland wrote a brutal, exceptional essay for Good where she plainly discussed her experience with PTSD and her desire for violent sex as one means of coping…
The Rumpus Interview with Blake Butler
Blake Butler is the author of There Is No Year (Harper Perennial, 2011), Scorch Atlas (Featherproof Books, 2010), and Ever (Calamari Press, 2009). He is the editor of HTMLGIANT, Lamination…
Where I Write #9: A Cabin on the Lakefront
I stopped counting when I reached eighteen moves. That was a few moves ago. I am very good at packing my life into boxes.
The Careless Language of Sexual Violence
There are crimes and then there are crimes and then there are atrocities. These are, I suppose, matters of scale.
FUNNY WOMEN #14: A Play About the Men at My Gym in Five Acts
ACT ONE Scene: DEREK*, is in his early thirties with a military haircut, moderately toned flab, and tinted eyeglasses.
FUNNY WOMEN #2: A Play About Post-Racial America in Seven Acts
(or Seven Things White People Have Really Said to Me Since November 4, 2008)