This Week in Essays
A weekly roundup of essays we’re reading online!
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Posts Tagged: abusive relationship
The Dangerous Myth of the “Perfect Victim”: A Conversation with Jonathan Parks-Ramage
Jonathan Parks-Ramage discusses his debut novel, YES, DADDY.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Additional Skills Include
Patience became your lifeline. You almost wrapped it around your neck.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Sacred Stories”
All anyone really wants is to be seen and heard, and yet we avoid seeing and hearing others every day.
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Setting Yourself Free: A Conversation with Alisson Wood
Alisson Wood discusses her debut memoir, BEING LOLITA.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #218: Rufi Thorpe
“It doesn’t matter your gender or your sexual orientation; you can disorder your eating.”
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Within the Scope
While my friends write their truths in nearby cabins, I wear my silence like a bulletproof vest.
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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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ENOUGH: Give Me the Biggest Piece You Have
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 Thread: Ghosts at the Door
Ghosts, like women as people, are just a theory.
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ENOUGH: Reporting My Rape
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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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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Friction Wherever You Go: A Conversation with Kate Wisel
Kate Wisel discusses her debut story collection, DRIVING IN CARS WITH HOMELESS MEN.
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Impossible Hope
The system does not protect or serve those we call “aliens.”
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Gauri Kalyanam
Her heartbeat is a history folded into a vessel.
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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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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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Telling Our Truths: A Conversation with Shaindel Beers
Shaindel Beers discusses her third collection, SECURE YOUR OWN MASK.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #161: Andrea Baker
“I had to save my own life. I had the right to save my own life.”
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Splintered Doors
This journey is ongoing. But I know this: my daughter will never have to break down a door.
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Taking Back Control: A Conversation with Joseph Osmundson
Joseph Osmundson discusses his memoir, Inside/Out, intimacy, trauma, and the sometimes violence of desire.
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Songs of Our Lives: Paul Simon’s “Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard”
There’s you and him, and you and me. You seem to want each of us all to yourself, and that’s fine; you’re the one we both care about.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #82: Cecil Castellucci
The artistic oeuvre of Cecil Castellucci is dauntingly varied and vast. A singer/songwriter, a playwright, a librettist, she is also the author of many books, ranging from the picture book Grandma’s Gloves (winner of the California Book Award Gold Medal) to the YA novels Boy Proof, Tin Star, and the part comic, part prose novel […]
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