Read Features & Reviews Mini-Interviews The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #218: Rufi Thorpe Frances YackelMay 21, 2020 “It doesn’t matter your gender or your sexual orientation; you can disorder your eating.”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 Features & Reviews Rumpus Original A Lumpy, Misshapen Book: Talking with Elissa Washuta Katharine ColdironSeptember 19, 2018 Elissa Washuta discusses her chapbook, STARVATION MODE.Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Reviews Form as Container: Samantha Zighelboim’s The Fat Sonnets Molly FiskSeptember 14, 2018 Zighelboim almost has to break the form into pieces in order to speak; a fourteen-word poem is really only the echo of a sonnet.Read
Read Film Media Rumpus Original Black Panther and Strong Women Jennifer EppersonJune 7, 2018 I saw myself on the big screen—the strong black woman that I am, and the stronger black woman I aspire to become.Read
Read Rumpus Original How to Keep Score Rachel KleinFebruary 1, 2018 I’m still working on this balance, and given that I only have about eighty or ninety years tops to get it right, I doubt I ever will.Read
Read Fiction Rumpus Original Rumpus Original Fiction: Straw House Becky MandelbaumMay 10, 2017 “It’s not healthy, how you live. People aren’t meant to sleep all day. We need the sun. We’re meant to live in the sun.”Read
Read Funny Women Humor Rumpus Original FUNNY WOMEN #147: Marketing Roundtable at Skinny Cow© Woody Johnson, CMODecember 13, 2016 But is this implying enough that thin is the final message? I'm not sure. Sexy, we've nailed. But how do we make it clear thin is the goal?Read
Read Rumpus Original Missing Antonia CraneJune 1, 2016 I long to learn from my darkest teachers, feel the stab of their spectacular rejection. Perhaps I feel most alive when I’m hurting.Read
Read Rumpus Original Eating in Purgatory Jenne KnightApril 21, 2016 I always say the last time was the last time, and I always mean it, but I’m scared I’ll relapse again.Read
Read Rumpus Original The Saturday Rumpus Essay: The Fat Girl’s Benediction Tabitha BlankenbillerFebruary 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. Read