Finding Hope in Resistance: Talking with Amy Roost
Co-editor Amy Roost discusses the anthology FURY: WOMEN’S LIVED EXPERIENCES DURING THE TRUMP ERA.
...more
Posts Tagged: Donald Trump
Fraught Woods: Chelsea Rathburn’s Still Life with Mother and Knife
These are the woods through which we walk from an early age.
...more
Turning Purple: The Year of the Defector
I needed love big enough to make my own hunger seem small.
...more
A Political Pregnancy
Are my choices in this culture so firmly dictated by my ability to give birth?
...more
The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Chrissy Stroop and Lauren O’Neal
Co-editors Chrissy Stroop and Lauren O’Neal discuss their new anthology, EMPTY THE PEWS.
...more
A Gripping, Limited Call to Arms: Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments
There are so many happy endings that dystopia and utopia become almost indistinguishable by the novel’s end.
...more
Into Unbound Space: Talking with Seth Rogoff
Seth Rogoff discusses his novels FIRST, THE RAVEN: A PREFACE and THIN RISING VAPORS.
...more
Turning Purple: Blood Feast
It isn’t until I look at my wife’s face that I can feel my own fear.
...more
Turning Purple: The Borderland
What we have most in common is that we don’t know the truth.
...more
You Are Your Own Director: A Conversation with Karen Finley
Karen Finley discusses her most recent book, GRABBING PUSSY.
...more
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #175: Mira Jacob
“I wanted it to feel like it was done with urgency because it was.”
...more
Until We Rise Again
Where do I get what I need when I have nothing left?
...more
Nobody Is Above the Law: Rally to Release the Mueller Report, Today, 5 p.m., Everywhere
This is not the first such protest, and it won’t be the last.
...more
War Games: Kill Class by Nomi Stone
What happens when we play along with something not real—does it become real?
...more
Both Hard and Soft: Talking with Lilliam Rivera
Lilliam Rivera discusses her new novel, DEALING IN DREAMS.
...more
SquareRoot of Love: Broken Heart
We must find a way to keep the roots of love and justice strong.
...more
The Thread: Grown-Up Little Girls
I was a little girl and all I wanted was to grow up.
...more
From One World to the Next: Talking with Julie Lythcott-Haims
Julie Lythcott-Haims discusses HOW TO RAISE AN ADULT and REAL AMERICAN.
...more
ENOUGH: A Bonfire of Blossoms, A Pile of Ash
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
...more
The Internal and the External: A Conversation with Wendy Willis
Wendy Willis discusses her new essay collection, THESE ARE STRANGE TIMES, MY DEAR.
...more
Inauguration Day Root Canal
On Inauguration Day, I can’t feel my mouth.
...more
Dispatches from the Swamp: How to Sleep-Train Your Lawmakers
This time? This time we decided to sleep-train the baby.
...more
State of The Rumpus
We are here because of you.
...more
Flowers Grow in Sh*t: Talking with Sohaila Abdulali
Sohaila Abdulali discusses her new book, WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT RAPE.
...more
The Thread: Forged in Fire
To control your story is to own your reality.
...more
Nobody Is Above the Law: Today, 5 p.m. Local Time, Everywhere
Country-wide protests today, 5 p.m., to protect Robert Mueller.
...more
Himpathy for a Horse
Have we come to bury the antihero, or to praise him?
...more
Complicating Narratives: A Conversation with Bushra Rehman
Bushra Rehman discusses her new poetry collection, MARIANNA’S BEAUTY SALON.
...more
What to Read When Our Country Is Ruled by Sexual Predators
A list of books by feminist writers who examine and dismantle rape culture.
...more
New-Old, Old-New: Erica Dawson’s When Rap Spoke Straight to God
Dawson plays with many tropes—light and dark, the spiritual vs. the corporeal—while questioning the everyday myths that surround us.
...more