Felt Space
If I were to stare into a mirror, I’m not sure I would see anything back.
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...moreEmilly Prado discusses her debut essay collection, FUNERAL FOR FLACA.
...more“Yes: in terms of an authorial presence, I tried to tread lightly.”
...moreElle Nash discusses her new short story collection, NUDES.
...moreIn this collection, women are “vesseled,” carrying the burdens of our culture.
...moreAll I want is to feed myself like a person who wants to be fed.
...more“It doesn’t matter your gender or your sexual orientation; you can disorder your eating.”
...moreA Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
...morePerfection over pasta. Beauty over bread. The more it hurt, the better.
...moreFind and replace. Food for alcohol. Daughter for dad.
...moreReema Zaman discusses her debut memoir, I AM YOURS.
...moreI am an oracle who, while dispensing answers to all those who seek them, cannot predict my own future.
...more“We have to create spaces for all voices to be heard in us.”
...moreElissa Washuta discusses her chapbook, STARVATION MODE.
...moreI want to enjoy something so thoroughly, like my coworker using his fingers to dig guac out of a burrito bowl.
...moreWithout men around to impress, I discovered my own taste—what desire meant beyond the desire to be desirable.
...moreJasmine Guillory discusses her debut novel, The Wedding Date, finding success, writing sex, and the revolutionary act of eating.
...more[W]e wanted something different from each other’s bodies than what was actually there, which might be why our bodies sometimes came together.
...moreI’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.
...moreToday is not the day I can eat like a normal person and not tomorrow either. But maybe the day after that or the next one after.
...moreMyriam Gurba discusses her new memoir, MEAN, her writing process, and why she has hope for patriarchy’s dissolution.
...moreJoAnna Novak discusses her novel, I Must Have You, eating disorders, and writing characters that challenge our expectations of how women should behave.
...moreCarolyn Zaikowski discusses her most recent book, In a Dream, I Dance by Myself, and I Collapse, the psychology of repetition, and honoring the power of language.
...moreI didn’t want to criticize her, or demand explanations from her. I just wanted to hear her speak.
...moreAre great bookstores just good capitalism? People are more concerned with being fat than with eating disorders, if we go by the number of books in each respective section at one blogger’s local bookstore. A Tennessee bookstore will include a restaurant inside of it.
...moreShame is a treble hook that tells me that 1) I not only fail but am a failure, that 2) I not only damage people but I am damaged, and that 3) I not only lie but I am a lie.
...more“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.”
...moreI didn’t usually consider how the binge felt. I just ate until I couldn’t eat anymore.
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