Rumpus Original Fiction: Habitat
The airless bubble expanding over their yard now included him. He could hardly breathe.
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Posts Tagged: pregnancy
Spotlight: “As Before, So Behind (redux)”
What follows is an attempt to speak to the living, as well as the dead.
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The Illusion of Wholeness: Sophie Collins’s Who is Mary Sue?
When reading this book, expect your notions of speaker—and even what a book of poetry is—to be challenged.
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Unsung Choices: Blue Rose by Carol Muske-Dukes
Can women ever fully escape the restrictions upon them, the risk to their bodies that comes from being born female?
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Tiamat on the Treadmill
The gym is a place where the body is primary.
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Killer Whales
This well of violation, this sonogrammed sea of loss.
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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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Babysitter
For my daughter Stella’s first birthday, we got her a babysitter.
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Re-Thinking Adoption: A Conversation with Nicole Chung
Nicole Chung discusses her debut memoir, ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW.
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Visual Storytelling: A Conversation with Marnie Galloway
Marnie Galloway discusses her award-winning comic IN THE SOUNDS AND SEAS.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Any Good Wife
Airong’s voice was stern, matter-of-fact. “I’m pregnant.”
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The Thread: All in My Head
I am in a war, and some of the toughest battles happen in my head.
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The Body That Is Terra Nullius
My body is a terra nullius, belonging to no one, not even me.
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What Would Hannah Gadsby Do?
Hannah Gadsby reminds us that our stories matter.
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That Balancing Act: A Conversation with Vanessa Hua
Vanessa Hua discusses her forthcoming novel, A RIVER OF STARS.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: The Earth Revolves around the Sun
I imagined myself from the outside: the picture of a woman waiting.
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You Can Never Escape the Jersey Shore
To watch Jersey Shore is to watch my fantasy, only it’s an imperfect recreation.
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Making Deliberate Choices: A Conversation with Sheila Heti
Sheila Heti discusses her new novel, MOTHERHOOD!
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A Part of Me
Now my not wanting men to be front and center in my life capitalized sperm into a rare commodity. Empowered reproduction is largely a myth.
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The Ritual
It’s not easy being the mother of a dead child. In fact, it may be the hardest kind of mothering there is.
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Voices on Addiction: Spontaneous Combustion
I remember hunger the way other children remember love.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: She Hated the Child
She didn’t want anything to change. She understood it would be easier if she loved the child. But she did not want to love it.
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Mothering Our Children and Ourselves: Molly Caro May’s Body Full of Stars
As May moves through what she now calls her “postpartum challenge,” she does not return to her old self, but instead becomes someone new.
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Effacement of the Mother
When I came home from war, I felt relief. Now that I’m home after childbirth, I’m still waiting for relief. War ends. Motherhood does not.
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Like Juggling Knives: Talking with Rumaan Alam
Rumaan Alam discusses his new novel, That Kind of Mother, the limits of the employer-employee relationship, and the grossness of heterosexual sex.
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Spotlight: “Survivors” by Aubrey Hirsch
But more and more I began to wonder if you needed to be human to be a person.
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Mom Vagina
When the physical therapist explains the electric dildo she holds in her hand will reset the nerve endings in my vagina so I won’t need to pee every hour, I say, “Get it in me and let’s go.”
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