Crohn’s Disease
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Amy Mackelden and Dr. Dylan Jaggard
“We wanted to give voice to people who are often spoken for.”
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Revisiting and Reinventing the Body: A Conversation with Destiny O. Birdsong
Destiny O. Birdsong discusses her debut poetry collection, NEGOTIATIONS.
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Learning to Be Haunted: Dennis James Sweeney’s Ghost/Home
We make a home, in other words, by letting in our ghosts.
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Look at How the Bullets Have Missed
I praise everyone I can still touch, their warmth a violent protest against the cold weapons of death.
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Breaking Through: Gayle Brandeis Discusses The Art of Misdiagnosis
Gayle Brandeis discusses her memoir, The Art of Misdiagnosis, out today from Beacon Press.
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Out of Order
In summertime, a small group of white, middle-aged, well-educated men were obsessed with my ass.
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Thunder, Thighs
Over one third of the women in my survey had been called “Thunder Thighs” at some point in their life. Many were still haunted by this. None of them interpreted “thunder” to mean “power.