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Translating Desire: The Erotic-Macabre Poetry of Joyce Mansour

  • Emilie Moorhouse
  • November 18, 2019
...women’s writing has often been deemed too dark, too sultry, too frigid, too hysterical.
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Barren Spaces

  • Zainab A. Omaki
  • October 3, 2019
I know some people believe it’s just hair. That it’s not a big deal.
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FUNNY WOMEN: A Primer on Womansplaining

  • Segal Archer
  • September 26, 2019
You could be wrong. You’re not, but you could be.
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Diner Boys

  • Wren Awry
  • September 26, 2019
But then, full of longing to be someone other than I was, his work seemed perfect.
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A Window with Reality Through It: Everything Here by Billie Swift

  • Emily Pérez
  • September 20, 2019
Swift’s shuffled lines create haunting, breathtaking possibilities.
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Masculinity and Fatal Desire in The Skin I Live In

  • Rosa Boshier
  • August 7, 2019
Why, in art of all things, should we ignore the intuition of the body?
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The Desire to Be: Talking with Garrard Conley and Taylor Larsen

  • Jerome Ellison Murphy
  • July 19, 2019
Garrard Conley and Taylor Larsen discuss their recent work.
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Truth through Fiction: Talking with Nicole Dennis-Benn

  • Naya Clark
  • June 3, 2019
Nicole Dennis-Benn discusses her second novel, PATSY.
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Spotlight: “Girl’s Guide to Personal Hygiene and Cell Decay”

  • R. Claire Stephens
  • May 21, 2019
Maybe that's what we should teach in schools.
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Making It

  • Krys Malcolm Belc
  • May 6, 2019
Pregnancy had a beginning and end date. Breastfeeding, on the other hand, could last a day or five years.
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Lilies of the Valley

  • Amanda LeDuc
  • January 22, 2019
I want to speak, but I don’t know what to say to you, so here’s a bloom.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #160: Kimberly Dark

  • Sara Gregory
  • December 27, 2018
“We are all in bed with Daddy. Gendered expectations are part of our DNA.”
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