ENOUGH: Thawing a Dream
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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Posts Tagged: immigrants
Defying Gravity: Ryka Aoki’s Light from Uncommon Stars
This book is disarmingly—in fact, unnervingly—amoral.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Cynthia Dewi Oka
Cynthia Dewi Oka discusses her new collection, FIRE IS NOT A COUNTRY.
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You Can’t Stop Rivers from Running: Talking with Rajiv Mohabir
Rajiv Mohabir discusses ANTIMAN and CUTLISH.
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The Trauma of Surviving: Tastes Like War by Grace M. Cho
Amid all this survival, Cho carries the reader through with the comfort of food.
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Tongue Stuck
It was a kind of madness to speak a language to my son that I hadn’t used in almost a decade.
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Of Language and Lineage: Carlina Duan’s Alien Miss
All the while, the sound of the poetry behind the telling is sharp, rhythmic, and controlled.
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Arriving at the Mystery: A Conversation with Oliver de la Paz
Poet Oliver de la Paz discusses art-making, hybrid forms, and his work.
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Sacred and Profane and Infinitely Compassionate: Remembering Anthony Veasna So
Agent Rob McQuilkin and editor Helen Atsma discuss AFTERPARTIES by Anthony Veasna So.
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Reinventing the Truth: A Conversation with Anna Qu
Anna Qu discusses her debut memoir, MADE IN CHINA.
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We Are More: Shattering the Ethnic Monolith Myth in The Gimmicks
To say the past is in the past ignores the abundant ways it controls their lived experience.
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Hope Is the Last Bastion: Talking with Suchitra Vijayan
Suchitra Vijayan discusses her new book, MIDNIGHT’S BORDERS.
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Making Space for Curiosity: A Conversation with Pik-Shuen Fung
Pik-Shuen Fung discusses her debut novel, GHOST FOREST.
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That Moment of Transition: Talking with Musa Okwonga
Musa Okwonga discusses IN THE END, IT WAS ALL ABOUT LOVE and ONE OF THEM.
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Pockets of Belonging: Wandeka Gayle’s Motherland: And Other Stories
The characters of Motherland might be displaced, but they are never alone.
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Voices on Addiction: Semillas
I grieve my father’s disembodiment. It is my grief inheritance.
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We Are More: Show Me Your Teeth
Despite growing up in a predominately white suburb, my family never had a white dentist.
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Both Trauma and Sin: Elizabeth Miki Brina’s Speak, Okinawa
Speak, Okinawa is masterful at describing the internal dissonance that mixed race children can feel.
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Carrying the Stories of Our Ancestors: A Conversation with Anjali Enjeti
Anjali Enjeti discusses SOUTHBOUND and THE PARTED EARTH.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Threa Almontaser
Threa Almontaser discusses her debut collection, THE WILD FOX OF YEMEN.
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Nepantla and Radical Empathy: Talking with Sergio Troncoso
Sergio Troncoso discusses his new anthology, NEPANTLA FAMILIAS.
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We Are More: The Docent and the Novelist
I’ve been explaining the Armenian Genocide all my life.
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A Space of Unknowing: Talking with Gabriela Garcia
Gabriela Garcia discusses her debut novel, OF WOMEN AND SALT.
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The Lure of the Process: Talking with Chang-rae Lee
Chang-rae Lee discusses his new novel, MY YEAR ABROAD.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Dr. Amra Sabic-El-Rayess
“The difference with memorializing my story is that I have invited others to live it, for a moment.”
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Making a Shelter of Language: A Conversation with Bhaswati Ghosh
Bhaswati Ghosh discusses her debut novel, VICTORY COLONY, 1950.
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Asking the Right Questions: Yaa Gyasi’s Transcendent Kingdom
Transcendent Kingdom becomes an experiment in itself.
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The Power of the Word: Talking with Roberto Lovato
Roberto Lovato discusses his new memoir, UNFORGETTING.
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Voices on Addiction: Memories of My Daddy and Me(th)
For years, decades even, my father tried to escape meth’s hold.
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Dark and Light at the Same Time: A Conversation with Fariha Róisín
Fariha Róisín discusses her debut novel, LIKE A BIRD.
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