One Burning Question: A Conversation with Evelyn C. White
“I understood in that moment that my life had changed forever. And it has.”
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Posts Tagged: domestic violence
Beautiful Evil: The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
Alaska attracts those looking to be free from the constraints of society.
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The Body That Is Terra Nullius
My body is a terra nullius, belonging to no one, not even me.
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What Sustains Me
In my marriage, food was love. And control. And coercion. And apologies.
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Why Writing Matters in the Age of Despair
No word is wasted. No story is told in vain.
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ENOUGH: If You Hadn’t Happened
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary people that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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A Real Good Guy
Doesn’t murder exclude a person from being described as “a good guy”?
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Hannibal Lecter, My Therapist
In the dark, I felt at home in the underground bunker where the hospital stored its violent men.
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ENOUGH: They Knew How to Take What They Wanted
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary people that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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You Like That, Baby?: The Myth of Feminine Mystery
“It’s like a damn Rubik’s cube down there!”
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Voices on Addiction: Spontaneous Combustion
I remember hunger the way other children remember love.
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These Places Surround Me: Talking with Quintan Ana Wikswo
Quintan Ana Wikswo discusses her novel, A Long Curving Scar Where the Heart Should Be, delving into the facets of trauma, and her creative processes.
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ENOUGH: He Could Kill Me
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary people that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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Taking Back Control: A Conversation with Joseph Osmundson
Joseph Osmundson discusses his memoir, Inside/Out, intimacy, trauma, and the sometimes violence of desire.
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The Thread: Look What You Made Me Do
Can a person with some agency ever claim victimization, or are agency and victimhood a binary?
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Voices on Addiction: A Conversation with Andrea Jarrell
I didn’t want to be edited in that way. I needed to tell my story.
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House Rules: Lessons in Autofiction
You try to pass yourself off as a rock and the water just laughs. You try anyway.
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Moving Targets
Love twists itself into fear, into statistics, into things people can live with.
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The Final Girl
I wanted to be scared because being terrified taught me how to survive.
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ENOUGH: The Art of the Cover Up
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary people that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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ENOUGH: Because Women Bear the Whole Wet World
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary people that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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ENOUGH: Towards Survival
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary people that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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Spotlight: “Perfect Sisters” by Joyanna M and Lily Bell
“Sister Love” touches on how a traditional family can fail the victim of domestic violence, and how that failure can compound the victim’s trauma.
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The Peep King’s Legacy: A Family Portrait
The day after Hugh Hefner died, I received a text from my sister that our grandfather was starring alongside James Franco and Maggie Gyllenhaal in HBO’s new series, The Deuce.
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We’re inviting you to share your own experiences with and thoughts on sexual harassment, assault, domestic violence, and more.
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What to Read When Everyone Is Talking about Rape
A list of memoirs, fiction, poetry collections, and nonfiction that deal with rape culture and the many ways that is shapes our society and the women and men who live within it.
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Heartbeat Detected
I don’t want to say “calculated conversations.” I don’t want to say “I push my needs away.” I don’t want to admit I can’t control how our interactions go.
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Black Ops for Jesus
Ruby knew this story and what it said about Mom’s threshold for domestic abuse, perhaps better than anyone else since her driveway was practically adjoined to our own. She called anyway.
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Rumpus Exclusive: An Excerpt from Alice Anderson’s Some Bright Morning, I’ll Fly Away
His goal was to erase me.
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Finding the Finally: Alice Anderson Discusses Some Bright Morning, I’ll Fly Away
Alice Anderson on her memoir, Some Bright Morning, I’ll Fly Away, drag, and motherhood.
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