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Opening Survival Doors Through Language: A Conversation with Stacey Waite

  • Julie Marie Wade
  • November 19, 2021
Stacey Waite talks about her poetry collections BUTCH GEOGRAPHY and THE LAKE HAS NO SAINT.
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This Week in Essays

  • Tamara Matthews
  • November 10, 2021
A weekly roundup of essays we’re reading online!
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On Trauma, Memory, and Language: Talking with Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi

  • Arya Roshanian
  • August 30, 2021
Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi discusses her new novel, SAVAGE TONGUES.
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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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The Thread: Lacuna

  • Marissa Korbel
  • January 14, 2020
If nobody tells you what to call a feeling, your emotions have a gap.
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The Genius and the Nobody: Lynne Tillman’s Men and Apparitions

  • Nicole Miller
  • July 5, 2018
Make it new, the modernists said. But how to rebuild the living body?
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What to Read When You Want to Celebrate Feminism

  • The Rumpus
  • May 11, 2018
We here at The Rumpus matriarchy are celebrating all of our feminist “mothers” this Mother's Day!
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Notable San Francisco: 5/17–5/23

  • Charles Kruger
  • May 17, 2017
If you can make only one event this week, don’t miss the Oakland Book Festival on Sunday, 5/21. This all-day festival features more than 100 writers, 50 panels, and lots of tabling…
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Is Gender F***ing with Our Fantasies?

  • Kate Poor
  • September 15, 2016
To lift the censorship, degradation, and foreclosure of girls’ fantasies, we may have to investigate the gendered limitations on how we think about early loves, impulses, celebrity crushes, and maybe, sexually stirring gentleman pirates.
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The Origin of Performativity Theory

  • Kyle Williams
  • June 27, 2016
She made it clear that the body is not a stable foundation for gender expression. For New York Magazine, Molly Fischer profiles gender theorist and philosopher Judith Butler, focusing on how…
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The Rumpus Interview with Jenny Johnson

  • Olivia Kate Cerrone
  • November 18, 2015
Poet Jenny Johnson discusses her forthcoming debut collection, In Full Velvet, phobias, courage, the dual consciousness of queer lovers, and what it means to belong.
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: The Sword and Her Sister

  • Gina Di Salvo
  • August 29, 2015
Frozen is a study in what happens when imagination is constrained to a single narrative arc
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