Rumpus Original Fiction: Three-Finger Freddie and a Fight
He could spin a Spalding between those eight digits faster and smoother than anyone.
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Posts Tagged: anger
Time Is Precious: A Conversation with Clifford Thompson
Clifford Thompson discusses his work and art-making.
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Voices on Addiction: Fallen
There is no finality to this grief. Only a series of losses, compounded.
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I Had to Go There: Talking with Enzo Silon Surin
Enzo Silon Surin discusses his debut poetry collection, WHEN MY BODY WAS A CLINCHED FIST.
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Hybrid by Nature: A Conversation with Tara Campbell
Tara Campbell discusses her new book, POLITICAL AF: A RAGE COLLECTION.
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Zones of Paradox: A Conversation with Billy-Ray Belcourt
Billy-Ray Belcourt discusses his new book, A HISTORY OF MY BRIEF BODY.
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Arrest Record
A Black boy, no matter how young, was not a child. He was a future criminal.
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Learning to Listen: A Conversation with Natalia Hero
Natalia Hero discusses her debut novella, HUM.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #215: Traci Brimhall
“Everything in my life is basically a scribble.”
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On Anger, Autism, and Blackness
The rage and frustration overwhelmed all rational thought.
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Voices on Addiction: Katie Calls
I want to respond from my heart—not my anger, my judgment, my desire.
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Time Is Money: Porn Carnival by Rachel Rabbit White
This isn’t a book about loss; rather, it’s a book about sheer willpower and intentionality.
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ENOUGH: Infra Dig
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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Poetics of Lineage
I see the birds. I feel my body, splitting from its spirit, lying in the grass.
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Breaking Out of Likability: A Conversation with Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
Tatyana Fazlalizadeh discusses her new book, STOP TELLING WOMEN TO SMILE.
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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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Butcher Knives at the Ready
For many years, I tried to civilize myself.
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Expunging the Bogeyman: Sady Doyle’s Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers
The root of these imagined, monstrous versions of women, Doyle argues, is fear.
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Anger Is the Engine: A Conversation with Lilly Dancyger
Lilly Dancyger discusses BURN IT DOWN: WOMEN WRITING ABOUT ANGER.
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Anger as Fuel: A Conversation with Dani Burlison
Dani Burlison discusses ALL OF ME: STORIES OF LOVE, ANGER, AND THE FEMALE BODY.
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I Am the Ignition
I don’t believe in redemption stories.
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The Bent Hourglass: Living in Crip Time
This is how to be sick, or hurt: give up on fast time.
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Until We Rise Again
Where do I get what I need when I have nothing left?
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The Pains of the Past: A Conversation with Golnaz Hashemzadeh Bonde
Golnaz Hashemzadeh Bonde discusses her second novel, WHAT WE OWE.
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Lilies of the Valley
I want to speak, but I don’t know what to say to you, so here’s a bloom.
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Bright Bright Bright Bright
Joan wants down. She says her arms are tired of holding on.
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Breathing into the Paper Bag: Talking with Jenny Valentish
Jenny Valentish discusses her memoir, WOMEN OF SUBSTANCES.
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ENOUGH: If You Hadn’t Happened
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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Rumpus Original Fiction: Today, You’re a Black Revolutionary
The important thing to remember when climbing a pole, a rope, a mountain is to not look down.
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Viv Albertine’s Emotional Investigation
I’ve worked through the pain, and made something useful and creative out of it.
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