The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Nefertiti Asanti
“…each month I embrace a kind of death within my womb that offers me a life I can live with.”
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Posts Tagged: reproductive rights
Why an Anthology on Reproductive Freedom Is Needed Now
If Roe v. Wade were overturned, twenty-four states could immediately prohibit abortion.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Alison McGhee
“Stories hurt, stories heal, stories save our lives.”
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Subverting the Wild West: A Conversation with Anna North
Anna North discusses her new novel, OUTLAWED.
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Hypocrisy Is Ripe for Stories: Talking with Melissa Scholes Young
Melissa Scholes Young discusses her new novel, THE HIVE.
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This Frozen Life
As soon as life begins, its impulse is to divide.
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Claiming Space to Matter: Talking with Jennifer Berney
Jennifer Berney discusses her debut memoir, THE OTHER MOTHERS.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Sacred Stories”
All anyone really wants is to be seen and heard, and yet we avoid seeing and hearing others every day.
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A Political Pregnancy
Are my choices in this culture so firmly dictated by my ability to give birth?
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Parallel Planes: The Ghosts of Mothers and Daughters
I need to hear myself say it out loud to make it real.
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Anger as Fuel: A Conversation with Dani Burlison
Dani Burlison discusses ALL OF ME: STORIES OF LOVE, ANGER, AND THE FEMALE BODY.
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FUNNY WOMEN: Whimsical Abortion Procedures
Pay off the stork to remove your house from its route.
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This Week in (Reproductive Rights) Essays
Our storytelling, the sharing of our necessary truths, is needed now more than ever.
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The Thread: On Justice
I can’t speak, but I can scream.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Habitat
The airless bubble expanding over their yard now included him. He could hardly breathe.
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Truth through Fiction: Talking with Nicole Dennis-Benn
Nicole Dennis-Benn discusses her second novel, PATSY.
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You Need to Vote Next Tuesday
Vote Tuesday. Vote for Democrats.
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You Like That, Baby?: The Myth of Feminine Mystery
“It’s like a damn Rubik’s cube down there!”
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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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A Source of Life: Red Clocks by Leni Zumas
There’s a lot left unsaid between the women of Red Clocks; not even they know the extent to which they’re all connected.
...moreWomen’s March 2018: Voters Strike Back
It’s time to take the streets, again.
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Don’t miss this new series of 7-inch records and digital downloads to benefit Planned Parenthood!
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An Eerie Prescience: Talking with Joyce Carol Oates
Author Joyce Carol Oates discusses how the political climate affected the writing of her latest novel, A Book of American Martyrs, how she uses Twitter, and why predictions are a waste of time.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Achy Obejas
Achy Obejas discusses her new collection, The Tower of the Antilles, what she’s learned from translating works of others, and why we should all read poetry every day.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #82: Cecil Castellucci
The artistic oeuvre of Cecil Castellucci is dauntingly varied and vast. A singer/songwriter, a playwright, a librettist, she is also the author of many books, ranging from the picture book Grandma’s Gloves (winner of the California Book Award Gold Medal) to the YA novels Boy Proof, Tin Star, and the part comic, part prose novel […]
...moreEggs as Protest Art
Eggs are an ancient symbol of fertility, but the artist Martha W. Lewis is also using them as a medium to express current political frustrations about alternative facts, election hacking, wall building—and threats to women’s reproductive rights. Lewis is one of more than three hundred visual, spoken word, and performance artists whose work is featured in “Nasty Women New Haven,” […]
...moreThis Week in Short Fiction
This week, the bimonthly magazine of international literature World Literature Today released its March 2017 issue, with the timely theme “Dystopian Visions.” The issue features thirteen writers’ dark speculations on the future, crossing the globe from Cuba to Japan. In this time in the United States when dystopian fiction isn’t seeming quite so fictional anymore, the […]
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Sound & Vision: Leah Hayes
Allyson McCabe talks with Leah Hayes, acclaimed illustrator, graphic novelist, songwriter, and musician.
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We Brown Women
Our bodies will not be your banners. We are not yours to use and abuse, we are not yours to dupe. We see through your words, and we see your violence.
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“Man, You Better Watch Out”: Why Women Keep Marching Against Trump
[A protest’s] job is to hearten the people who’re part of it, to let them look into the eyes of those who agree with them, to help them feel less alone.
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