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ENOUGH: White Lab Coat, No Face

  • The Rumpus
  • October 5, 2021
A Rumpus series of work by women, trans, and nonbinary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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Variants of Unknown Significance

  • Mai Tran
  • June 3, 2020
My gynecologist won’t stop bothering me about getting a genetic test done.
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CAN-CER-VIVE

  • Elizabeth Ann Reed
  • October 29, 2018
I’ve only had breast cancer once and already I know too much.
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Not a Widow

  • Michelle Miller
  • December 20, 2016
I want to think of him as inhuman and selfish instead of an admirable man who eventually succumbed to a brain chemistry he had no control over.
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Night

  • Theo Pauline Nestor
  • September 3, 2016
With these young women, I no longer slip in and out of places undetected. With them, my cloak of invisibility—my only known superpower—has been removed.
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Go Boldly, Dear Dreamer

  • M.K. Hall
  • May 11, 2016
And while I understand the secrecy surrounding miscarriage—it is hard to quantify what’s been lost—because people don’t talk about it, I am lonely.
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Frigid

  • Jess E. Jelsma
  • March 18, 2016
My first gynecologist tells me that my vagina is on the smaller side of the normal range. I use this as a justification for why, at eighteen, I still can’t get a tampon in more than a quarter of an inch past my hymen.
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I’m Touching You Now

  • Lania Knight
  • May 21, 2014
When a doctor examines a woman, it is a moment of acute vulnerability. And it lasts until she is sitting up and fully clothed. It lasts until she gathers herself and leaves, stepping back into the “normal” world and her place within it.
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Five Reasons to Kiss My Gynecologist

  • Katherine Riegel
  • May 7, 2013
My gynecologist makes me feel like the complex whole I am. He makes me feel both normal and unique, recognizes that my body and my emotions are inextricably connected.
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