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Love can feel muddled, vast, diffuse; so little to do with the singular volatility of a firework. I hunger for that kind of crystalline precision, though. That clarity. To scream myself across the sky just once—consuming everything in my wake—and then vanish from view.
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The important thing to remember when climbing a pole, a rope, a mountain is to not look down.
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He could spin a Spalding between those eight digits faster and smoother than anyone.
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Clifford Thompson discusses his work and art-making.
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There is no finality to this grief. Only a series of losses, compounded.
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Enzo Silon Surin discusses his debut poetry collection, WHEN MY BODY WAS A CLINCHED FIST.
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Tara Campbell discusses her new book, POLITICAL AF: A RAGE COLLECTION.
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Billy-Ray Belcourt discusses his new book, A HISTORY OF MY BRIEF BODY.
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A Black boy, no matter how young, was not a child. He was a future criminal.
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Natalia Hero discusses her debut novella, HUM.
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“Everything in my life is basically a scribble.”
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The rage and frustration overwhelmed all rational thought.
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I want to respond from my heart—not my anger, my judgment, my desire.
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This isn’t a book about loss; rather, it’s a book about sheer willpower and intentionality.
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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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I see the birds. I feel my body, splitting from its spirit, lying in the grass.
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Tatyana Fazlalizadeh discusses her new book, STOP TELLING WOMEN TO SMILE.
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Miranda Popkey discusses her debut novel, TOPICS OF CONVERSATION.
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For many years, I tried to civilize myself.
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The root of these imagined, monstrous versions of women, Doyle argues, is fear.
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Lilly Dancyger discusses BURN IT DOWN: WOMEN WRITING ABOUT ANGER.
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Dani Burlison discusses ALL OF ME: STORIES OF LOVE, ANGER, AND THE FEMALE BODY.
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I don’t believe in redemption stories.
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This is how to be sick, or hurt: give up on fast time.
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Where do I get what I need when I have nothing left?
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Golnaz Hashemzadeh Bonde discusses her second novel, WHAT WE OWE.
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I want to speak, but I don’t know what to say to you, so here’s a bloom.
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Joan wants down. She says her arms are tired of holding on.
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Jenny Valentish discusses her memoir, WOMEN OF SUBSTANCES.
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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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