The Psychiatrist and the Butch
My dad, a psychiatrist, wants to write a sex book.
...moreMy dad, a psychiatrist, wants to write a sex book.
...moreEmily Hashimoto discusses her debut novel, A WORLD BETWEEN.
...morePatsy’s imagined freedom in America, she discovers almost immediately, was an illusion.
...moreI knew my mother would be surprised. I didn’t know she’d be horrified.
...moreSalt—the speaker’s only remains, after she dives into the ocean and sets herself free of the past.
...moreI’d crossed a line and owned a new secret life. There was no going back.
...moreHow had he seen me upon this initial meeting? How had I seen him?
...moreMy body tightened as the knee-jerk worry of being seen and outed flooded back.
...moreHealing is slow. Fast. Slow again.
...moreIt is an unimaginable gift until you’ve done it, shaving off a self.
...more“Everyone is female, and everyone hates it.” A provocation. An invitation.
...moreJenn Shapland discusses her debut book, MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF CARSON MCCULLERS.
...moreJenn Shapland discusses MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF CARSON MCCULLERS.
...moreI needed love big enough to make my own hunger seem small.
...moreAll three remind readers that what is imagined is not always real and the world is not as expected.
...moreIt’s the atmosphere. The temperature. What lies between thee and me.
...moreIf nobody tells you what to call a feeling, your emotions have a gap.
...moreChange happens. It is dramatic. Poetry transformed lesbian lives.
...moreA Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
...moreI needed this book. Maybe you will, too.
...moreKatharine Coldiron discusses her forthcoming novella, CEREMONIALS.
...moreWe sleep and we pretend to sleep. We wait for the day to turn into night.
...moreThe banning of women’s nipples is, of course, violence in and of itself.
...moreNicole Dennis-Benn discusses her second novel, PATSY.
...moreBefore the arrival of the barrel, there was the sky.
...moreA Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
...moreSavannah Sipple discusses her debut collection, WWJD AND OTHER POEMS.
...moreCreation begets death which begets more creation.
...moreAmy Feltman discusses her debut novel, WILLA & HESPER.
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