The Rumpus Mini-interview Project: Andrea Bartz
“And as those masks fall away, we get down to the shame and envy underneath.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #231: Ruth O. Saxton
“While the past remains always present, old women exist in the present.”
Quiet, Radical Defiance: The Equivalents by Maggie Doherty
Education, work, study: these were not simply a means to an end.
Let Our Rage Become a Storm: Kelly Grace Thomas’s Boat Burned
In this collection, women are “vesseled,” carrying the burdens of our culture.
Frenetic, Excitable, and Direct: Sylvie Baumgartel’s Song of Songs
This poem lets her—the speaker and Baumgartel—be too much.
Time Is Money: Porn Carnival by Rachel Rabbit White
This isn’t a book about loss; rather, it’s a book about sheer willpower and intentionality.
Fraught Woods: Chelsea Rathburn’s Still Life with Mother and Knife
These are the woods through which we walk from an early age.
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #126: Christopher Zeischegg
"Being thrust into forced ritualistic closeness does break the ice, but doesn’t guarantee closeness."
Sylvia Plath and Reclaiming the Gaze
Perhaps as women we are always trying to record the gaze. Marginalized people are often asked to validate our distrust, trepidation, and fear.
Hooters Chicken
I applied for a job at Hooters on a dare a few weeks before my nineteenth birthday. A shoe salesman who worked across from me at the mall told me he’d pay me twenty dollars to apply.
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #75: Deborah Kampmeier
I met Deborah Kampmeier at a workshop in November. We were two weeks post-election; the room was raw with emotion, and electric with conversations about resistance. This tall, badass woman dressed…