A New Season
“He’s slipping from me,” I said, and I knew I was crying about more than this.
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Posts Tagged: parenting
The Crack-Up
If I slept… All night, I stayed awake.
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Laying Bare Our Truths: A Conversation with Marika Lindholm
Marika Lindholm discusses WE GOT THIS: SOLO MOM STORIES OF GRIT, HEART, AND HUMOR.
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Heart Work
I want them to know that heart work is hard work, but worth the struggle.
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Mama’s Fancy Stripper Heels: Working Mothers Dish
[A] person’s labor is not indicative of their parenting.
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The Mentor Series: Vanessa Hua and Susan Straight
Vanessa Hua interviews her mentor, Susan Straight.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Gauri Kalyanam
Her heartbeat is a history folded into a vessel.
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Voices on Addiction: How to Stay
Drinking is the opposite of staying.
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I Am the Ignition
I don’t believe in redemption stories.
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The Thread: Art Monsters
I don’t want to be a martyr or a monster. I want to be human.
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The Gates of American Belonging: Devi S. Laskar’s The Atlas of Reds and Blues
It begins with a gunshot.
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How to Name Dead Babies
Let’s not pretend first means there’s a good place to start.
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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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Monarchs, Motherhood, and Transformation
These butterflies needed help, and I wanted to deliver them my garden.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Forty-Six
Waiting to turn forty-six is like standing in the unrelenting sunshine.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Michele Filgate
Michele Filgate discusses WHAT MY MOTHER AND I DON’T TALK ABOUT.
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The Mentor Series: Kimberly King Parsons and Victoria Redel
Kimberly King Parsons interviews her mentor, Victoria Redel.
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ENOUGH: Beneath the Towering Pines
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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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #175: Mira Jacob
“I wanted it to feel like it was done with urgency because it was.”
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Until We Rise Again
Where do I get what I need when I have nothing left?
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Nurture Rupture: On Motherhood, Writing, and Gender Inequality
Do I have a public self that is separate from my private self? I’m not so certain about that.
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ENOUGH: Eating Toast and Talking about Sexual Assault
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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A Hard-Won Love: NOS by Aby Kaupang and Matthew Cooperman
The child is born of them, yet is other to them; they work on behalf, and yet despite, and also against her.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #171: Angie Kim
“All in all, it took six years—one year of preparing and marinating, two years of drafting, then three years of revising!”
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Rumpus Original Fiction: In the Large Room Where Your Future Is Kept
She told herself it was a new beginning. Nothing would be taken for granted again.
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Racism’s Shadow: A Conversation with Maurice Carlos Ruffin
Maurice Carlos Ruffin discusses his debut novel, WE CAST A SHADOW.
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Borders and Boundaries: Talking with Irina Reyn
Irina Reyn discusses her new novel, MOTHER COUNTRY.
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