We Will Not Be Contained: Pretty Bitches and Too Much
There will always be another word used against us.
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Posts Tagged: mental illness
Small Breeds
How do people function without the false promises of pressure?
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Clockwork
Turn the corner, let the darkness swallow you, and you’re in the stacks.
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Voices on Addiction: A Conversation with Erin Khar
Erin Khar discusses her debut memoir, STRUNG OUT.
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Between Illusion and Reality: A Conversation with Erin Pringle
Erin Pringle discusses her debut novel, HEZADA! I MISS YOU.
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Poetics of Lineage
I see the birds. I feel my body, splitting from its spirit, lying in the grass.
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“Close to You”: A Family’s Love, Depression, and Grief
In my hands is the record of my youth.
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You Never Win, You Never Lose: Talking with Gabriel Birnbaum
Gabriel Birnbaum discusses his new album, NOT ALONE.
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A Kind of Bliss: Odes to Lithium by Shira Erlichman
In these moments, we are there with her, to witness the work of staying sane.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #201: Brian Alan Ellis
“Loneliness is a way of life, man… like punk!”
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Parallel Planes: The Ghosts of Mothers and Daughters
I need to hear myself say it out loud to make it real.
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The Crack-Up
If I slept… All night, I stayed awake.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Shira Erlichman
Shira Erlichman discusses her debut poetry collection, ODES TO LITHIUM.
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A Modern-Day Witch: Talking Augusten Burroughs
Augusten Burroughs discusses his new memoir, TOIL & TROUBLE.
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Driven from the Village with Pitchforks
“Monster” is a good name for anything you want to destroy.
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Negotiating Girlhood: A Conversation with Jaquira Díaz
Jaquira Díaz discusses her debut memoir, ORDINARY GIRLS.
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In the Dark
He was the creature under the bed, the ghost in the attic, the monster in the closet.
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Doesn’t It Keep You Up at Night?
The dark holds me as long as I will let it.
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A Rope to Grab in the Chaos: Talking with Esmé Weijun Wang
Esmé Weijun Wang discusses her debut essay collection, THE COLLECTED SCHIZOPHRENIAS.
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The Mania of Queer Desire: In Praise of Fever Ray’s Plunge
I remember driving a bird mad once.
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The Language of Grief: Where Reasons End by Yiyun Li
To grieve is to demonstrate dedication to those we love.
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I Am the Ignition
I don’t believe in redemption stories.
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The Past Is Living: Jennifer Militello’s Knock Wood
Militello chooses cadence over chronology to show how moments flow into each other and through us.
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Blood Falls: On Self-Harm and Making Pain Visible
Always present and never heard, like the pain I feel but don’t know how to share.
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Finding the World Within
Secrets are expectations passed down over silent years.
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Voices on Addiction: A Conversation with Amber van de Bunt
Amber van de Bunt discusses her debut memoir, OVERCOME.
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ENOUGH: Tipping Toward Disaster
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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How I Love Her: On Depression and Suicidal Ideation
Maybe the worst part about living with this is that it doesn’t leave me.
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