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How to Write an Honest Memoir: A Conversation with Evette Dionne

I don’t ever do anything from a place of fear—which is an odd place for me to be in because I have anxiety—but I have to [step into places of discomfort] because that’s where growth happens. If you’re comfortable, you’re not growing.

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Fat Ghost

Only now can I finally see how this had been our pact all along. We’d decided between us, somewhere along the way, and without any real discussion, that my mother would be the flower and I would be the wax paper.

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Rumpus Original Fiction: On Sight

You stood and put your hair up. It made you a different man. You got hard and decided you were why.

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Trust in Action: Talking with the Editors of Fat and Queer

Co-editors Bruce Owens Grimm, Miguel M. Morales, and Tiff Joshua TJ Ferentini discuss FAT AND QUEER.

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Rumpus Exclusive: “Soft Butch”

For as long as I can remember, I wanted to be strong, to be tough. I didn’t want to be soft.

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Rumpus Exclusive: “Brave Is a Decision”

I’d crossed a line and owned a new secret life. There was no going back.

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #218: Rufi Thorpe

“It doesn’t matter your gender or your sexual orientation; you can disorder your eating.”

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Reimagining Jesus: A Conversation with Savannah Sipple

Savannah Sipple discusses her debut collection, WWJD AND OTHER POEMS.

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Form as Container: Samantha Zighelboim’s The Fat Sonnets

Zighelboim almost has to break the form into pieces in order to speak; a fourteen-word poem is really only the echo of a sonnet.

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Rumpus Original

A Two-Hour Dance Class in Thirty Minutes

When she called out for floor performance I knew this would not be my day.

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Mixed Feelings: Am I Too Fat For Love?

We don’t like to think that love traffics in the same biases that shape our culture—but of course it does.

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Transgressive and Unruly Women: Talking with Anne Helen Petersen

Anne Helen Peterson discusses her new book, Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman, her writing process, and academia.

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