The Cost of Liberation: Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn
Patsy’s imagined freedom in America, she discovers almost immediately, was an illusion.
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The Price of Acceptance
I knew my mother would be surprised. I didn’t know she’d be horrified.
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A Fantastic Communion: Renaissance Normcore by Adèle Barclay
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”
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”
How had he seen me upon this initial meeting? How had I seen him?
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Marital Piss
My body tightened as the knee-jerk worry of being seen and outed flooded back.
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Bald-headed Muthaf*cker
Healing is slow. Fast. Slow again.
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We Do Not Belong Everywhere
It is an unimaginable gift until you’ve done it, shaving off a self.
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Queer Logic: Females and My Autobiography of Carson McCullers
“Everyone is female, and everyone hates it.” A provocation. An invitation.
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Bridging Narratives: Talking with Jenn Shapland
Jenn Shapland discusses her debut book, MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF CARSON MCCULLERS.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Jenn Shapland
Jenn Shapland discusses MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF CARSON MCCULLERS.
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Turning Purple: The Year of the Defector
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
All three remind readers that what is imagined is not always real and the world is not as expected.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Lover to Lover”
It’s the atmosphere. The temperature. What lies between thee and me.
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The Thread: Lacuna
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
Change happens. It is dramatic. Poetry transformed lesbian lives.
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ENOUGH: What Does It Mean to Survive?
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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Living the Unknown: Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream House
I needed this book. Maybe you will, too.
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Hearing a Novella/Reading an Album: Talking with Katharine Coldiron
Katharine Coldiron discusses her forthcoming novella, CEREMONIALS.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: The Softest Part
We sleep and we pretend to sleep. We wait for the day to turn into night.
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The Real Community Guidelines: How to Be a True Ally
The banning of women’s nipples is, of course, violence in and of itself.
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Truth through Fiction: Talking with Nicole Dennis-Benn
Nicole Dennis-Benn discusses her second novel, PATSY.
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Barrel of Love, an Immigrant Story
Before the arrival of the barrel, there was the sky.
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ENOUGH: Remember the Time
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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Reimagining Jesus: A Conversation with Savannah Sipple
Savannah Sipple discusses her debut collection, WWJD AND OTHER POEMS.
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Good Enough: Foraging for Answers with Mary Oliver
Creation begets death which begets more creation.
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Lessons for Female Success
I am nowhere, but despite having erased his marks, he is everywhere.
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Heartbreak and Hair Dye: Talking with Amy Feltman
Amy Feltman discusses her debut novel, WILLA & HESPER.
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The Queer Syllabus: Chavela by Catherine Gund and Daresha Kyi
In The Queer Syllabus, writers nominate works for a new canon of queer literature.
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The Queer Syllabus: “Fragments, on Love and Desire” by Sappho
In The Queer Syllabus, writers nominate works for a new canon of queer literature.
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