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If we want to talk about desire, a gnawing ache for something we don’t yet have, or for something we’ve lost, we can say that we yearn for the transformation that the satisfaction of our desire will bring.

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A Study of Homeland in Displacement

To think of Brazil as a different place than I remember it is to think of my unbelonging, as someone out of place in my memory.

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Is Gender F***ing with Our Fantasies?

To lift the censorship, degradation, and foreclosure of girls’ fantasies, we may have to investigate the gendered limitations on how we think about early loves, impulses, celebrity crushes, and maybe, sexually stirring gentleman pirates.

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Love and Gymnastics

I didn’t want to be a ballerina. It didn’t even sound right. I wanted to be a gymnast. The word alone made me feel proud and stand a little straighter.

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Bodies in Space: Teaching after Trauma

Turning onto my street and looking south I feel the ground drop beneath me every time—I turn the corner and the sidewalk falls. I feel invisible then, as if I’ve vaporized.

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VISIBLE: Women Writers of Color: Jaquira Díaz

Jaquira Díaz discusses the challenge of writing about family members, her greatest joy as a writer, and her literary role models.

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Remnants

There were six people under the same roof, surviving but not living. Because living requires stories.

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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Heirlooms

The strings of our DNA mark us as one, but it’s the roots of our memories that bind us.

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The Rumpus Interview with Annie DeWitt

Annie DeWitt discusses her debut novel, White Nights in Split Town City, the 90s, and the brutality of nature.

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The Rumpus Interview with Ann Packer

Ann Packer discusses her most recent novel The Children's Crusade, artistic mothers, the writer and her “first principle,” and the fight to like your own characters.

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The Surprising Magic of Bad Books

Any story about a fairy is a story about female power.

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Colorama

How does one scene impress itself on us, so that we remember it better than we should if we were in it? Or rest, just below the surface, present, but unnoticed?

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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Less Than I Hope For

A Study of Homeland in Displacement

Is Gender F***ing with Our Fantasies?

Love and Gymnastics

Bodies in Space: Teaching after Trauma

VISIBLE: Women Writers of Color: Jaquira Díaz

Remnants

The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Heirlooms

The Rumpus Interview with Annie DeWitt

The Rumpus Interview with Ann Packer

The Surprising Magic of Bad Books

Colorama

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