ENOUGH: Untangling My Rape
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary people that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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ENOUGH: If You Hadn’t Happened
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary people that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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(K)ink: Writing While Deviant: D. Gilson
Place is context in part, but it is not context in summation.
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ENOUGH: Dissolution
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary people that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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ENOUGH: Once You’re Trapped, You Lose the Game
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary people that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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Mixed Feelings: The Power and Limits of Labels
Maybe I’m not bisexual. What am I?
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The Torment of Queer Literature
Queer literature isn’t a box to unlock so that it can unlock me.
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ENOUGH: They Knew How to Take What They Wanted
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary people that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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All the Reasons I Texted My Rapist
Admitting I had been raped meant confronting the landscape of my sexual history.
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ENOUGH: Skeleton Key
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary people that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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You Like That, Baby?: The Myth of Feminine Mystery
“It’s like a damn Rubik’s cube down there!”
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ENOUGH: Please Have a Seat
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary people that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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ENOUGH: Clara, Too
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary people that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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Having a Female Orgasm During the Trump Administration
“I am wondering if politics affect your sex life.”
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ENOUGH: I’m Always Surprised When They Find Me
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary people that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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(K)ink: Writing While Deviant: Emily Smith
A writer must push her pleasure into risk, expose herself publicly to strangers with no knowledge of how she might be received, and become something that must be seen.
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ENOUGH: On Junot Díaz, from a Survivor
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary people that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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ENOUGH: The Type of Boy You Were Taught to Want
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary people that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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Mom Vagina
When the physical therapist explains the electric dildo she holds in her hand will reset the nerve endings in my vagina so I won’t need to pee every hour, I say, “Get it in me and let’s go.”
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ENOUGH: He Could Kill Me
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary people that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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(K)ink: Writing While Deviant: Brighde Moffat
If there is going to be pain, let it be by choice.
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ENOUGH: Why Women Remain Silent
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary people that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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How Amazon Is Making Sex a Dirty Word
“[A]s long as we retain all of these conflicting ideas of what sex is, and what it means to us, sex will always sell—until it’s inconvenient.”
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House Rules: Lessons in Autofiction
You try to pass yourself off as a rock and the water just laughs. You try anyway.
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ENOUGH: Evidence of Origin Theories
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary people that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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ENOUGH: Who Really Holds the Power
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary people that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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ENOUGH: To Be Believed
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary people that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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ENOUGH: Cowards Love the Dark
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary people that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #126: Christopher Zeischegg
“Being thrust into forced ritualistic closeness does break the ice, but doesn’t guarantee closeness.”
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ENOUGH: The Mark Thing
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary people that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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