The Best of Brevity: A Roundtable Discussion on Flash Nonfiction
With Deesha Philyaw, Jaquira Díaz, Danielle Gellar, and Torrey Peters.
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Posts Tagged: gender
No Unnecessary Touching: A Conversation with C. Kubasta
C. Kubasta discusses her new collection, ABJECTIFICATION: STORIES & TRUTHS.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Benjamin Garcia
Benjamin Garcia discusses his debut poetry collection, THROWN IN THE THROAT.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Neither Wicked Witch nor Fairy Godmother”
[W]hat was going wrong? Why were our stories not being written or published?
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Losing the World
When we begin life, language is play.
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C-Beams Glittering in the Dark: A Conversation with Cooper Lee Bombardier
Cooper Lee Bombardier discusses his first book, PASS WITH CARE: MEMOIRS.
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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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Bald-headed Muthaf*cker
Healing is slow. Fast. Slow again.
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We Do Not Belong Everywhere
It is an unimaginable gift until you’ve done it, shaving off a self.
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Inhabitation and Invocation: Candice Wuehle’s Death Industrial Complex
The speaker must believe in transience, in shapeshifting without permission.
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Voices on Addiction: A Body Full of Ghosts
I’ve known since I was a child that the world is ending. I felt it in my bones.
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Queer Logic: Females and My Autobiography of Carson McCullers
“Everyone is female, and everyone hates it.” A provocation. An invitation.
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Both Scholarly and Poetic: A Conversation with Xandria Phillips
Xandria Phillips discusses their debut full-length collection, HULL.
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Everyone You Meet Is God in Drag
If the art of drag has taught me one thing, it’s that I am not unique.
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Funny Women: Women Respond to Ads
I thought my period would be the happiest, most active time of the month.
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A New Version of Possibility: Talking with Juliana Delgado Lopera
Juliana Delgado Lopera discusses their new novel, FIEBRE TROPICAL.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers
Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers discusses her new collection, THE TILT TORN AWAY FROM THE SEASONS.
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The Thread: Lacuna
If nobody tells you what to call a feeling, your emotions have a gap.
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Erin McKeown’s Dress
I still had the dress and decided to wear it.
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Translating Desire: The Erotic-Macabre Poetry of Joyce Mansour
…women’s writing has often been deemed too dark, too sultry, too frigid, too hysterical.
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Anger Is the Engine: A Conversation with Lilly Dancyger
Lilly Dancyger discusses BURN IT DOWN: WOMEN WRITING ABOUT ANGER.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Field Medicine”
I didn’t belong on this planet. This kind of place could not be my home.
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FUNNY WOMEN: A Primer on Womansplaining
You could be wrong. You’re not, but you could be.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Ayşe Papatya Bucak
Ayşe Papatya Bucak discusses her debut story collection, THE TROJAN WAR MUSEUM.
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Pay Attention: T Fleischmann’s Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through
I’m hungry for truth and kids are just spouting facts up and down the street.
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Outside the Flow of Culture: A Conversation with Katya Apekina
Katya Apekina discusses her debut novel, THE DEEPER THE WATER THE UGLIER THE FISH.
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Food, Family, and Strong Female Characters: A Conversation with J. Ryan Stradal
J. Ryan Stradal discusses his new novel, THE LAGER QUEEN OF MINNESOTA.
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The Desire to Be: Talking with Garrard Conley and Taylor Larsen
Garrard Conley and Taylor Larsen discuss their recent work.
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