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Memoir: Well Rounded

  • Dolan Morgan
  • February 6, 2018
This is my life. I removed all the corners and sharp edges.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Raising A Feminist Son

  • Joelyn Suarez
  • May 14, 2017
I think about the birth of Mosley, and all of the dreams I already have for him at the ripe age of one. I know how I want him to see me—strong, smart, capable of anything and everything. This is how I want him to see all women, but me especially.
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Opening This Can of Worms

  • Argyle C. Klopnik, Esq.
  • January 23, 2017
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The Rumpus Interview with Elisa Albert

  • Shin Yu Pai
  • February 13, 2015
Elisa Albert discusses her new novel, After Birth, postpartum depression, childbearing, and the misogyny of modern medicine in pathologizing the normal processes of birth and the female body.
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The Sunday Rumpus Reviews: Fridays at Enrico’s by Don Carpenter and Inside Madeleine by Paula Bomer

  • Heather Partington
  • May 25, 2014
Fridays at Enrico’s (Counterpoint) Don’t write about writing. That gets said a lot. But like any absolute about what not to do, it’s only true until someone does it well.…
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OG DAD #12: Inherit the Wind

  • Jerry Stahl
  • September 27, 2012
A baby is like a Rorschach. An occasionally adorable, periodically screamy blob onto which we project our own fears, delights and inner damage. Or something.
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Get Me Away From Here, I’m Dying

  • Gayle Brandeis
  • May 23, 2012
No one comes in to check on me, no one asks if I’m okay after I finally emerge, embarrassed, my eyes completely red. They all love me, but not enough to forgive what I’m about to do.
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