Comb or Brush? An Immigrant’s Knotty Dilemma
I was curious. What was the origin of the comb versus brush divide?
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Posts Tagged: mothers and daughters
Voices on Addiction: None of This Is Bullshit
I was fine. No one and nothing could hurt me.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “A Kind of Fairy Tale”
Happiness never seemed to linger. She often wondered why.
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Loving Something That May Destroy Us: A Conversation with Angie Cruz
Angie Cruz discusses her newest novel, DOMINICANA.
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Divestment
Secrecy stitched us a fraudulent reality. Denial masqueraded as hope.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: The Bad Kind of Puppy
That was when she realized: the ticking was coming from inside herself.
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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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Fool Me Once
The first time I had my breasts removed was hard. The second time, less so.
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Completely Embodied: Talking with K-Ming Chang
K-Ming Chang discusses her debut novel, BESTIARY.
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On Hauntings and Huntings: Talking with Jihyun Yun
Jihyun Yun discusses her debut poetry collection, SOME ARE ALWAYS HUNGRY.
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Acclimation
Such distinguished hybridity joined us all, animal and human, in a lonely, exclusive tribe.
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Queen of That Universe
The realm of sound yields to me, sits at my feet. I can switch on. Or not.
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Varied States of Breaking
This, I learned, is what rawness tasted like. I wanted more.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Lauren J. Sharkey
Lauren J. Sharkey discusses her debut novel, INCONVENIENT DAUGHTER.
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Mothers and Daughters: Girl by Veronica Golos
Bodies become something to escape from or leave behind.
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Let Our Rage Become a Storm: Kelly Grace Thomas’s Boat Burned
In this collection, women are “vesseled,” carrying the burdens of our culture.
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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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Rumpus Original Fiction: What Happens to Girls
There is pleasure in his eyes that is not just good acting.
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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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An Exploration of Belonging: Talking with Donna Hemans
Donna Hemans discusses her new novel, TEA BY THE SEA.
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Larger Than Life: Talking with Alia Volz
Alia Volz discusses her debut memoir, HOME BAKED.
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Variants of Unknown Significance
My gynecologist won’t stop bothering me about getting a genetic test done.
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Bodies Are Not Metaphors: Talking with Brit Bennett
Brit Bennett discusses her second novel, THE VANISHING HALF.
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Radical Enough
I still wonder what became of all those gentle cows.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Wild Animals
I searched in its beady eyes and tried to find a motherly warmth.
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Moments of Reawakening: Talking with Cathy Park Hong
Cathy Park Hong discusses MINOR FEELINGS: AN ASIAN AMERICAN RECKONING.
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Pursuing the Unattainable: A Conversation with Zaina Arafat
Zaina Arafat discusses her debut novel, YOU EXIST TOO MUCH.
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