ENOUGH: Thawing a Dream
A Rumpus series of work by women, trans, and nonbinary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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...moreGina Frangello discusses her debut memoir, BLOW YOUR HOUSE DOWN.
...moreThe first time I had my breasts removed was hard. The second time, less so.
...moreI needed my beauty to be invisible, either accidental or not at all.
...moreMy gynecologist won’t stop bothering me about getting a genetic test done.
...moreMy defensiveness has never been what’s saved me.
...moreThe only thing I can count on to be there tomorrow is my body. And yours.
...morePart of what makes Belly important and lasting, that is, is that they really think and feel a lot.
...moreI trust, nowadays. I have to keep at it
...moreDo I want to live, or do I want to write? Sometimes I think it’s that simple.
...moreI’ve only had breast cancer once and already I know too much.
...moreThin bodies, thick bodies, fit bodies, round bodies. I’d never seen so much flesh.
...more[Nina] is not a warrior but a reconnoiter at life’s edge.
...moreIn the dark, I felt at home in the underground bunker where the hospital stored its violent men.
...moreI acted childishly. But, in my defense, it was childish only if we actually lived in a world where Shakespeare had never existed.
...more“These songs are not just sweet confections. They’re talking about real things, like pain, and not being able to connect.”
...moreA list of books that offer various ways to understand what breast cancer means in our lives, individually and collectively.
...moreMy gut is a red, fiery drum, a beacon of rosy light. My instinct to run is a bright radioactive pink arrow, a bloody blade. I was correct.
...moreIt’s time to take responsibility for compliancy.
...moreIt isn’t much of a contest to say that Julie Coyne is the single most inspirational human being I have ever met. And I am here—in Xela—in part because I could use a little inspiration.
...moreIt’s true that real estate can’t save a marriage. But it might be equally true that it can save a relationship.
...moreThere was nothing open about my heart; my chest tightened, threatening to implode.
...moreRebecca Johns reviews Neon Green by Margaret Wappler today in Rumpus Books.
...moreI left my family’s home in the US afterward because I didn’t know how to stay in the same place where everything had changed.
...moreJulia was one of those “students” whom you suspect, after maybe fifteen seconds, should actually be teaching the class you are currently (allegedly) teaching.
...moreAnne Boyer writes about the history of breast cancer for The New Inquiry. There is no disease more calamitous to women’s intellectual history than breast cancer: this is because there is no disease more distinctly calamitous to women. There is also no disease more voluminous in its agonies, agonies not only about the disease itself, […]
...moreSometimes writers end up diagnosed with the very same disease they’ve inflicted on their characters. Natalie Serber knows firsthand—she received a breast cancer diagnosis halfway through creating Mona Brown, a character in her latest novel. Over at Beyond the Margins, Serber writes about sharing a diseases with Mona: First I had to survive. I had […]
...moreA collection of linked stories set at Fort Hood convey the loneliness and strain experienced by military families.
...moreGrace Talusan reviews Masha Gessen’s fascinating but hard look at the decision to get a preventive mastectomy, in the context of Talusan’s own decision to get a preventive mastectomy.
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