Posts Tagged: Lesbian

From the Archive: The Sunday Rumpus Essay: The Butch and the Bathroom

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Then there is the bathroom issue. My beloved is like me, like you, like anyone. Sometimes a person has to go.

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From the Archive: Unbound

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It’s always been ground glass, scraping against my insides. I imagine a light held to the place where I open would illuminate a mess of torn flesh, throbbing red-wet.

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ENOUGH: Letting Myself Breathe

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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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Woven Fibers and Broken Threads: Katherine Agyemaa Agard’s of colour

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To be imbricated in hundreds of years of colonial violence is to be entangled in colorist logics and stories of loss and belonging that are rarely linear or singular.

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Pick Your Pleasure: Talking with Liz Asch

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Liz Asch discusses her new book, YOUR SALT ON MY LIPS.

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Not Defined by Grief: A Conversation with Julie Marie Wade

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Julie Marie Wade discusses her newest poetry collection, SKIRTED.

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A Love That Leaves Scars: With Teeth by Kristen Arnett

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Reading Kristen Arnett’s With Teeth is like taking an afternoon drive down the I-4 of my memory.

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The Psychiatrist and the Butch

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My dad, a psychiatrist, wants to write a sex book.

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The Cost of Liberation: Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn

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Patsy’s imagined freedom in America, she discovers almost immediately, was an illusion.

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A Fantastic Communion: Renaissance Normcore by Adèle Barclay

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Salt—the speaker’s only remains, after she dives into the ocean and sets herself free of the past.

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Rumpus Exclusive: “Brave Is a Decision”

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I’d crossed a line and owned a new secret life. There was no going back.

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Rumpus Exclusive: “Mira Returns to Athens”

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How had he seen me upon this initial meeting? How had I seen him?

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Marital Piss

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My body tightened as the knee-jerk worry of being seen and outed flooded back.

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Bald-headed Muthaf*cker

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Healing is slow. Fast. Slow again.

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Queer Logic: Females and My Autobiography of Carson McCullers

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“Everyone is female, and everyone hates it.” A provocation. An invitation.

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Bridging Narratives: Talking with Jenn Shapland

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Jenn Shapland discusses her debut book, MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF CARSON MCCULLERS.

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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Jenn Shapland

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Jenn Shapland discusses MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF CARSON MCCULLERS.

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Turning Purple: The Year of the Defector

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I needed love big enough to make my own hunger seem small.

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Great Pain, Great Pleasure: Here All Night, Nightshade, and Blazons

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All three remind readers that what is imagined is not always real and the world is not as expected.

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The Thread: Lacuna

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If nobody tells you what to call a feeling, your emotions have a gap.

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Lesbian Poetry’s Vatic Voices: The Specter of Ecocatastrophe

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Change happens. It is dramatic. Poetry transformed lesbian lives.

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Living the Unknown: Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream House

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I needed this book. Maybe you will, too.

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Hearing a Novella/Reading an Album: Talking with Katharine Coldiron

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Katharine Coldiron discusses her forthcoming novella, CEREMONIALS.

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