self harm
-
Ode to Girlhood: Olivia Gatwood’s Life of the Party
The world that suffocates girls still has a lot to learn from them.
-
Afrofuturist Triptych for My Mother
This is what I think of when I think of home; Africa is my altar.
-
Blood Falls: On Self-Harm and Making Pain Visible
Always present and never heard, like the pain I feel but don’t know how to share.
-
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.
-
ENOUGH: A Drama Queer Navigates Trauma
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
-
Smoke Screen
I am an oracle who, while dispensing answers to all those who seek them, cannot predict my own future.
-
Breathing into the Paper Bag: Talking with Jenny Valentish
Jenny Valentish discusses her memoir, WOMEN OF SUBSTANCES.
-
Inborn Autistic Disturbances of Affective Contact
Maybe you were whistling before you could talk, too.
-
Dead Name
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.
-
ENOUGH: He Could Kill Me
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
