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Ode to Girlhood: Olivia Gatwood’s Life of the Party

  • Michal Zechariah
  • March 13, 2020
The world that suffocates girls still has a lot to learn from them.
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Afrofuturist Triptych for My Mother

  • Delali Ayivor
  • November 19, 2019
This is what I think of when I think of home; Africa is my altar.
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The Mania of Queer Desire: In Praise of Fever Ray’s Plunge

  • Logan February
  • August 29, 2019
I remember driving a bird mad once.
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Blood Falls: On Self-Harm and Making Pain Visible

  • Courtney Cook
  • July 2, 2019
Always present and never heard, like the pain I feel but don’t know how to share.
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Nurture Rupture: On Motherhood, Writing, and Gender Inequality

  • Sophia Shalmiyev
  • May 7, 2019
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: A Drama Queer Navigates Trauma

  • The Rumpus
  • March 19, 2019
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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Smoke Screen

  • A. Martine
  • January 3, 2019
I am an oracle who, while dispensing answers to all those who seek them, cannot predict my own future.
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Breathing into the Paper Bag: Talking with Jenny Valentish

  • Laura Zera
  • October 29, 2018
Jenny Valentish discusses her memoir, WOMEN OF SUBSTANCES.
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Breaking the Codes

  • Suzanne Roberts
  • October 1, 2018
So I said nothing. To protect you, and to protect myself.
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Inborn Autistic Disturbances of Affective Contact

  • Naseem Jamnia
  • August 1, 2018
Maybe you were whistling before you could talk, too.
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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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ENOUGH: He Could Kill Me

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  • May 1, 2018
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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