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Rumpus Original Fiction: On Sight

  • Brian Lin
  • October 13, 2021
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

  • Sarah Fawn Montgomery
  • June 11, 2021
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”

  • Nora E. Derrington
  • May 10, 2021
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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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Randa Jarrar

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • February 23, 2021
Randa Jarrar discusses her new memoir, LOVE IS AN EX-COUNTRY.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Brave Is a Decision”

  • Alden Jones
  • July 13, 2020
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

  • Frances Yackel
  • May 21, 2020
“It doesn’t matter your gender or your sexual orientation; you can disorder your eating.”
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Energizing the Choir: A Conversation with Lindy West

  • A. Malone
  • November 4, 2019
Lindy West discusses her new essay collection, THE WITCHES ARE COMING.
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If You Let Me Tell You a Story

  • Tiffany Marie Tucker
  • December 5, 2018
Stories need concrete details to help you understand, don’t they?
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Form as Container: Samantha Zighelboim’s The Fat Sonnets

  • Molly Fisk
  • September 14, 2018
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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  • Deesha Philyaw
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VISIBLE: Women Writers of Color: Carmen Maria Machado

  • Deesha Philyaw
  • March 28, 2018
Carmen Maria Machado discusses Her Body and Other Parties, riffing off the work of others, and how writing is like solving a math problem.
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The Thread: Ways of Being Seen

  • Marissa Korbel
  • December 12, 2017
Can you see it now? Is the image different in your mind yet? A thing you can’t unsee.
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Our Enraging, Beautiful, Hungry Bodies

  • Keah Brown
  • August 2, 2017
The body is a complicated thing, not only in the way it is perceived by others but also in the way we perceive it ourselves.
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