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My Dollhouse, Myself: Miniature Histories

  • Nicole Cooley
  • June 29, 2015
She pauses and says it again. “In my head, I live in my dollhouse.”
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Honest About the Body

  • Jake Slovis
  • June 23, 2015
At the Guardian, Sarah Hughes profiles young adult author Louise O’Neill, whose novels Only Ever Yours and Asking For It have received acclaim for embracing “dark themes” surrounding body image, sex, and social media: When I…
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Blackout by Sarah Hepola

  • Graham Oliver
  • June 18, 2015
Graham Oliver reviews Blackout by Sarah Hepola today in Rumpus Books.
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The Rumpus Interview with Kara Richardson Whitely

  • Alice Roche Cody
  • June 10, 2015
Author Kara Richardson Whitely discusses her new memoir, Gorge: My Journey Up Kilimanjaro at 300 Pounds, surviving food addiction and the trauma of being molested, and what comes next.
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Off Record

  • Susannah Nevison
  • April 30, 2015
Think of this as an origin story without an origin. This is as close as you can get.
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: All Bodies Count

  • Meredith Bland
  • April 18, 2015
Personal representation weighs heavily on the disabled because we don't often see each other out in the world.
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His Greatest Masterpiece

  • Roe McDermott
  • April 10, 2015
The banality of evil hides in people, and who they unleash it upon become forever tainted by their names. They become one. Creator and monster. Evil by association.
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The Rumpus Interview with Pussy Noir

  • Kate Jenkins
  • April 10, 2015
Jason Barnes talks about performing burlesque, genderfuck fashion, naked contortionists, and “being above gender” as his alter ego Pussy Noir.
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: The Fat Girl’s Benediction

  • Tabitha Blankenbiller
  • February 21, 2015
Why couldn’t I accept my body for what it wanted to be? It’s what I harped on the rest of the world to do.
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Fat and Sexy

  • Guia Cortassa
  • January 27, 2015
My curves are not in all the right places but they still bring men to their knees. This, despite the fact that I have been told that because I am…
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Broken Bird: Reflections on The Upside of Anger

  • Kathryn Buckley
  • January 17, 2015
We were both fighting with our mothers to be seen and accepted; it mattered to us as daughters that we had that kind of support.
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In Your Thirties

  • Aleya Kassam
  • January 13, 2015
Shame is a controlling animal. It demands. Don’t be fully you. Be less.
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