Read Features & Reviews Reviews A Different Kind of Butterfly Effect: Frances Cha’s If I Had Your Face Christine Ma-KellamsDecember 9, 2020 [Y]ou can’t grow up in a cultural milieu and be immune to what it loves.Read
Read Rumpus Original Body Inheritance Anna HeldJune 23, 2020 I needed my beauty to be invisible, either accidental or not at all.Read
Read Features & Reviews Reviews We Will Not Be Contained: Pretty Bitches and Too Much Sara PetersenMarch 18, 2020 There will always be another word used against us.Read
Read Features & Reviews Rumpus Original Karmic Moments: A Conversation with Christina Chiu Addie TsaiMarch 11, 2020 Christina Chiu discusses her forthcoming novel, BEAUTY.Read
Read Features & Reviews Reprint Rumpus Exclusive: “Lisbon, the Truncated City” Djaimilia Pereira de AlmeidaFebruary 24, 2020 Our love of the superfluous is helpful in better understanding ourselves.Read
Read Features & Reviews Reviews A Decade of Surface over Significance: Sleeveless by Natasha Stagg Philippa SnowFebruary 5, 2020 A former editor at V, Stagg is no stranger to the slippage between life and editorial.Read
Read Features & Reviews Mini-Interviews The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #194: Sarah Rose Etter M. Randal O’WainSeptember 26, 2019 “[H]opefully, the book is surreal but also universal.”Read
Read Rumpus Original Mixed Feelings: A Valentine to Aging Women Mandy Len CatronFebruary 14, 2019 Letting go of these ideas about a woman’s value feels like the obvious thing to do, but it’s really hard.Read
Read Rumpus Original Smoke Screen A. MartineJanuary 3, 2019 I am an oracle who, while dispensing answers to all those who seek them, cannot predict my own future.Read
Read Film Marissa Korbel Rumpus Original The Thread: Outside the Gaze Marissa KorbelDecember 18, 2018 This is the story I needed as a young girl; this is the story we all need.Read
Read Rumpus Original Curse of Beauty Andrea AskowitzJuly 30, 2018 My daughter is beautiful. I wanted to be beautiful. And isn’t she a reflection of me?Read
Read Rumpus Original Mixed Feelings: Am I Too Fat For Love? Mandy Len CatronFebruary 14, 2018 We don’t like to think that love traffics in the same biases that shape our culture—but of course it does.Read