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Holding Uncertainty: Talking with Teresa Carmody

  • Ryan Rivas
  • November 25, 2020
Teresa Carmody discusses her debut novel, THE RECONCEPTION OF MARIE.
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  • Marissa Korbel
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The Thread: Grown-Up Little Girls

  • Marissa Korbel
  • February 12, 2019
I was a little girl and all I wanted was to grow up.
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The Inward Place: A Conversation with Claudia Dey

  • Maggie May Ethridge
  • October 1, 2018
Claudia Dey discusses her first American release, HEARTBREAKER.
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Dead Name

  • Patricia Parkinson
  • May 8, 2018
In the Parenting Transgender Children support groups I belong to on Facebook, we refer to our previous-gendered child’s birth name as Dead Name.
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Those Freemartin Girls

  • Kathryn Collins
  • January 29, 2018
Meeting that freemartin was a revelation for me: justification for my off-gender mannerisms and body, another creature bridging the space between male and female.
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Death, Memory, and Other Superpowers

  • Jennifer Haupt
  • August 8, 2017
There was no cedar chest filled with tissue-wrapped rattles, handprint art projects, and bronzed baby shoes. Our parents never spoke of our missing sister.
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He’s All Goat

  • Whit Arnold
  • August 1, 2017
I stared up at him, at his new muscular legs, his blossoming body, his trunks, his glory, in awe. I waited as long as I could, pretending to turn the two options over in my head, before saying, “Suicide.”
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Victim Story, a Mix CD

  • Joshua Bohnsack
  • May 21, 2017
All the cruelty of the past seasons washed away with the new layer of snow. I thought your streak was over. I thought we could be friends.
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Billy the Kid

  • Brandon Hicks
  • April 30, 2017
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Rion Amilcar Scott

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • August 17, 2016
Rion Amilcar Scott discusses his new collection Insurrections, creating a fictional town, and the pressure to make religious decisions during puberty.
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