The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Nefertiti Asanti
“…each month I embrace a kind of death within my womb that offers me a life I can live with.”
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Posts Tagged: medical trauma
Facing Her Truth: A Conversation with Ariel Henley
Ariel Henley discusses her debut memoir, A FACE FOR PICASSO.
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Fool Me Once
The first time I had my breasts removed was hard. The second time, less so.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #224: Marcia Trahan
“Memoir is about recreating the complexities of a life.”
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Body Inheritance
I needed my beauty to be invisible, either accidental or not at all.
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Losing the World
When we begin life, language is play.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “The Beautiful Dead”
It was personal, as the detectives on my favorite shows always said.
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Losing Paradise
What my mind cannot yet fathom, my body already knows.
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This Huge, Colossal Joy: A Conversation with Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison
Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison discuss their work.
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