ENOUGH: The Conversation Is Just Beginning
A new Rumpus series of essays, poetry, fiction, comics, and artwork by women and non-binary people that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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Posts Tagged: Amy Letter
From the Editors: On Charlottesville and White Supremacy
Rumpus editors share their thoughts on Charlottesville and white supremacy. When we have a platform to speak out against hatred and bigotry, we must use it to do so.
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From the Editors: Election 2016
This election is critical. We are code-red. We might elect our first woman president, or we might elect a man who is at best dangerous and unqualified and at worst the end of democracy as we know it today.
...moreNational Poetry Month Day 7: from “The Singing Ape, Or, Life in Pink” by Amy Letter
from “The Singing Ape, Or, Life in Pink”
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Open the Pod Bay Doors, MAL: The Rumpus Interview with Lori Emerson
“I do think that diagnosing and fixing problems with our machines that are twenty or even thirty years old is similar to fixing an old VW Bug—the architecture is simple enough and open enough that, given enough spare parts, there’s almost always a way to fix them.”
...moreThe Rumpus Original Combo with Ana Menendez
“As I writer, I dream of readers who approach a book with the same kind of engagement that went into the writing.”
...moreNational Poetry Month Day 10: “Universal Translator” by Amy Letter
Universal Translator Science fiction stories set in an alien-rich future like to show the universe’s different species communicating seamlessly by means of (what in the Star Trek universe is called) a “Universal Translator.”
...moreAmy Letter: A Poem I Love
The last poem I loved is “Strongly Scented Sonnet” by Rhoda Janzen. It’s vivid and perverse, a bit disgusting, yet the most palpably romantic poem I have ever read. A woman, for her lover, tucks an apple into “the nest / of hair beneath her arm, a scent like cheese / extruding musky fragrances when […]
...moreThe Last Book I Loved: Rita Mae Brown’s Rubyfruit Jungle
Rita Mae Brown’s Rubyfruit Jungle is a crass and hilarious slice of growing up “different,” as fun to read today as it was in 1973. Molly Bolt is an unashamed lesbian in a queer-hating world, an ambitious natural leader in a culture that values longsuffering femininity, and a no-BS thinker surrounded by the ridiculous rituals […]
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