Rumpus Exclusive: “Dear G.B.”
There are many ways to be ripped to shreds.
...moreThere are many ways to be ripped to shreds.
...moreI was fine. No one and nothing could hurt me.
...moreMelissa Faliveno discusses her debut essay collection, TOMBOYLAND.
...moreSecrecy stitched us a fraudulent reality. Denial masqueraded as hope.
...moreThere is no finality to this grief. Only a series of losses, compounded.
...moreErica C. Barnett discusses her debut memoir, QUITTER.
...moreI needed my beauty to be invisible, either accidental or not at all.
...moreThe marijuana shop shimmers from the abyss, a glowing green jewelry box atop the hill.
...moreDrunk women are targets. Drunk men can be anything.
...moreA Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
...moreMy sobriety is still a mystery to me. Forty years this December.
...moreMy family rarely throws the word addiction around. If we do, it is whispered.
...moreWhy was he so broken? And why did his broken make me feel broken, too?
...moreOut here on the balcony, perched three stories above the ground, we’re in her world.
...moreBut we can make choices if we want to live. I believe that.
...moreI trust, nowadays. I have to keep at it
...moreJenny Valentish discusses her memoir, WOMEN OF SUBSTANCES.
...moreThis world doesn’t have to like me. But it does have to reckon with me, with my humanity.
...moreSo I said nothing. To protect you, and to protect myself.
...moreStaring at that profile picture, I couldn’t not click.
...moreThe truth is different. The truth is always different.
...moreKristi Coulter discusses her debut essay collection, NOTHING GOOD CAN COME FROM THIS.
...moreA Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
...moreA Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
...moreAdmitting I had been raped meant confronting the landscape of my sexual history.
...moreA Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
...moreI didn’t want to be edited in that way. I needed to tell my story.
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