ENOUGH: They Have So Many Ways to Keep Us Quiet
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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Posts Tagged: Abuse
The Proustian Wilbur Bud
We all will have lost something in the forgetting.
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Stories We Tell Ourselves: A Conversation with Miranda Popkey
Miranda Popkey discusses her debut novel, TOPICS OF CONVERSATION.
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Where Speech Fails Us: Talking with Martin Jude Farawell
Poet Martin Jude Farawell discusses his debut full-length collection, ODD BOY.
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Living the Unknown: Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream House
I needed this book. Maybe you will, too.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Where to Find Him
It felt like the sun beating down on closed eyelids.
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The Thread: Ghosts at the Door
Ghosts, like women as people, are just a theory.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #199: Stuart M. Ross
“Ty is, you know, tied in a knot. On a very old shoe.”
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Fragmenting Forward: Brute by Emily Skaja
After all, isn’t this often the truth of loss? What once was home becomes a graveyard.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #198: Rene Denfeld
“Healing is a process you must actively engage in.”
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A Pinpoint Perspective: Talking with Jami Attenberg
Jami Attenberg discusses her newest novel, ALL THIS COULD BE YOURS.
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Impossible Hope
The system does not protect or serve those we call “aliens.”
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Driven from the Village with Pitchforks
“Monster” is a good name for anything you want to destroy.
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Negotiating Girlhood: A Conversation with Jaquira Díaz
Jaquira Díaz discusses her debut memoir, ORDINARY GIRLS.
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A Storm Underneath: Talking with Shonda Buchanan
Shonda Buchanan discusses her new memoir, BLACK INDIAN.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Gauri Kalyanam
Her heartbeat is a history folded into a vessel.
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I Am the Ignition
I don’t believe in redemption stories.
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ENOUGH: I Think I Wanted It
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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A Strange Liminal Space: George Abraham’s The Specimen’s Apology
Each formal experiment is a temporary hole into a new world that opens, then collapses, behind the reader.
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Touch the Bear: Talking with Blair Hurley
Blair Hurley discusses her debut novel, THE DEVOTED.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Lunch Money
Out here on the balcony, perched three stories above the ground, we’re in her world.
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Free Indirect Suicide: An Unfinished Fugue in H Minor
I want a PhD in how to want, effortlessly, to be alive.
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When Our Inner Voices Speak: Reema Zaman’s I Am Yours
Reema’s book teems with gorgeous metaphors.
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Both the Wound and the Healing: Talking with Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman
Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman discusses her debut memoir, SOUNDS LIKE TITANIC.
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Reclaiming Our Power: A Conversation with Reema Zaman
Reema Zaman discusses her debut memoir, I AM YOURS.
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ENOUGH: This Letter Isn’t for You
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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Total Freedom: A Conversation with Theresa Griffin Kennedy
Theresa Griffin Kennedy discusses her new story collection, BURNSIDE FIELD LIZARD.
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Tracing a Lineage of Violence: Talking with D.M. Aderibigbe
D.M. Aderibigbe discusses his debut poetry collection, HOW THE END FIRST SHOWED.
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ENOUGH: Finding My Abuser on Facebook
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 Mini-Interview Project #156: Steph Auteri
“I wanted my book to open up a conversation.”
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