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It’s like having the hiccups, you write instead. Everyone has had hiccups, after all. Accuracy is secondary to relatability, because you are tired, now, and twitchy, and the giant’s hands are pressing harder as you write.

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Rumpus Original

Reflections of the World and Me

At eight years old I stared in the mirror and willed myself to believe I was normal. I wasn’t.

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Rumpus Original

Written in Chalk: What It Means to Be Crazy

As truth becomes more elusive, as fact blends with fiction, we ought to take notice of how we categorize people, as categorization seems to be married to suppression, to disenfranchisement.

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #72: Laurie Sheck

Laurie Sheck is the author, most recently, of Island of the Mad, and A Monster’s Notes, a re-imagining of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. A Pulitzer Prize finalist in poetry for The…

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Politics

Wolves

This is how the election changed me, though: I fear white women, too.

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Dedicate Your No-Trump Vote: Robin Black

In a world in which it is okay for our president to mock a man with disabilities, we might well never see again the ultimately beautiful sight of a classroom of children disowning their own cruelty, choosing to be on the side of decency and care.

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The Rumpus Interview with Brit Bennett

Brit Bennett discusses her debut novel The Mothers, investigating “what-if” moments, and navigating racism in white spaces.

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The Rumpus Interview with Paula Whyman

Paula Whyman discusses her debut collection You May See a Stranger, discovering truth in fiction, and how memory interferes with good storytelling.

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Other

How to Write about the Disabled

Do not assume that empathy equals experience. Writing outside your personal experience is always a tricky thing, and writing about disabled people when you yourself are not disabled is an especially…

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