Our Madness: Talking with Sarah Fawn Montgomery
Sarah Fawn Montgomery discusses her debut memoir, QUITE MAD.
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Posts Tagged: misogyny
ENOUGH: Rules
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary people that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence
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To Love a Place: Talking with Susan Blumberg-Kason
Susan Blumberg-Kason, co-editor of HONG KONG NOIR, discusses the new anthology.
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Total Freedom: A Conversation with Theresa Griffin Kennedy
Theresa Griffin Kennedy discusses her new story collection, BURNSIDE FIELD LIZARD.
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Tracing a Lineage of Violence: Talking with D.M. Aderibigbe
D.M. Aderibigbe discusses his debut poetry collection, HOW THE END FIRST SHOWED.
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ENOUGH: Daddy Warbucks
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary people that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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None of This Is Supposed to Be a Secret: Talking with Erin Hoover
Poet Erin Hoover discusses her debut collection, BARNBURNER.
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Learning to Co-Exist with Fear: A Conversation with Vivek Shraya
Vivek Shraya discusses her new book, I’M AFRAID OF MEN.
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Change Ourselves, Change the World: Talking with Lacy M. Johnson
Lacy M. Johnson discusses THE RECKONINGS.
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A Lumpy, Misshapen Book: Talking with Elissa Washuta
Elissa Washuta discusses her chapbook, STARVATION MODE.
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ENOUGH: To Keep Myself Alive
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary people that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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What Would Hannah Gadsby Do?
Hannah Gadsby reminds us that our stories matter.
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Spotlight: “Where Women’s Stories Go to Die”
An exploration of the toxic misogyny women artists experience in the workplace.
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ENOUGH: So Much Remains Unsaid
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary people that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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Moments within Days within Seasons: Talking with Alicia Mountain
Alicia Mountain discusses her debut collection, High Ground Coward, the surveillance state, and queer representation in the poetry world.
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Something Truer Than True: Talking with Kelly O’Connor McNees
Kelly O’Connor McNees discusses her new novel, Undiscovered Country, the timeliness of its story, and the genre of historical fiction.
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The Medically Misguided Approach to Mistreatment
The definition of mistreatment is so broad that we cannot fully grasp what it is.
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ENOUGH: Please Have a Seat
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary people that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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Voices on Addiction: Self-Portrait
Mother should have told me that booze made a kind of heaven in my body, I thought the first time I felt it.
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Transgressive and Unruly Women: Talking with Anne Helen Petersen
Anne Helen Peterson discusses her new book, Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman, her writing process, and academia.
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Love Thy Neighbor: Talking with Yewande Omotoso
Writer, poet, and architect Yewande Omotoso discusses her second novel, The Woman Next Door, Cape Town’s haunting beauty, and mythologies about motherhood.
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“Everywhere They Hurt Little Girls”: Female Revenge in Game of Thrones
In Westeros, revenge mostly operates within the feminine realm…
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Your Patriotism Isn’t Love, It’s Blindness
Love of country, some argue. With their boots firmly planted in my chest as I struggle to protest. No, that is not love, but blindness.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #93: Barbara Browning
When I requested an interview from Barbara Browning to talk about her new novel, The Gift, she agreed and asked if I had a favorite song she could cover for me on the ukulele. Browning possesses many gifts—she is an accomplished dancer, novelist, performance artist, theorist, teacher, and self-described amateur musician—and The Gift is a […]
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Erika L. Sánchez
Erika L. Sánchez discusses her new collection Lessons on Expulsion, pushing back against sexism and misogyny, being a troublemaker, and donkeys.
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Home Is Here
There is no singular Muslim story, no definitive identity for the entire religion. […] Here, four women discuss what it’s like to be a minority in America in 2017, post-9/11 and post-Trump.
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Reclaiming the Language of Pop Culture: Reversible by Marisa Crawford
Marisa Crawford’s Reversible is an evocative collection, showcasing the ways in which pop culture saturates us with meaning, and how it teaches us to become.
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Every Woman Is a Nation unto Herself: A Conversation with Sabina Murray
Sabina Murray discusses the novel Valiant Gentleman, writing characters that are fundamentally different from herself, and confronting issues of colonization.
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Susan Sarandon, “Bernie Bro” Politics, and White Privilege
As a longtime fan, it pains me to say it, but Sarandon is everything that’s wrong with mainstream, non-intersectional white feminism.
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Interrogating the English Language with Safiya Sinclair
To be forced to speak in the language of the colonist, the language of the oppressor, while also carrying within us the storm of Jamaican patois, we live under a constant hurricane of our doubleness.
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