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Scrutinizing the Ties That Bind: Melissa Febos’s Girlhood

  • Ellen Wayland-Smith
  • July 28, 2021
By the end of the collection, Febos has managed to rewrite or erase entirely many parts of the patriarchal script that held her bound.
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Spotlight: “Everyone Wants to Know”

  • Maddy Buck
  • May 18, 2021
So where are you guys on the baby front?
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Everything Must Change: A Conversation with Melissa Febos

  • Kelly Thompson
  • March 22, 2021
Melissa Febos discusses her new essay collection, GIRLHOOD.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Overlook

  • Ashley Lopez
  • November 25, 2020
To be a woman in this world is to be adopted by other women.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Sarah M. Sala

  • Kiran Bhat
  • November 5, 2020
“A poem is like a vision test—its vision is either clear or it’s not.”
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Divestment

  • Magin LaSov Gregg
  • October 20, 2020
Secrecy stitched us a fraudulent reality. Denial masqueraded as hope.
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A Photographer’s Wife

  • Rachel Somerstein
  • October 7, 2020
It’s hard to see what isn’t there.
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Fool Me Once

  • Amory Rowe Salem
  • October 6, 2020
The first time I had my breasts removed was hard. The second time, less so.
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He Comes While We Are Walking

  • Liliana Torpey
  • October 5, 2020
It doesn’t feel good, does it? I didn’t see it coming either.
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On Hauntings and Huntings: Talking with Jihyun Yun

  • Cameron Finch
  • September 25, 2020
Jihyun Yun discusses her debut poetry collection, SOME ARE ALWAYS HUNGRY.
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Milked

  • Veena Dinavahi
  • August 4, 2020
I mourn for my body, for the toll the world has taken on it.
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Mothers and Daughters: Girl by Veronica Golos

  • Devon Balwit
  • July 17, 2020
Bodies become something to escape from or leave behind.
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