I’m Cold, Please Touch Me: The Freezer Door by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Sycamore wrote this book long before pandemic time, and yet it couldn’t have arrived at a better moment.
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Posts Tagged: Sex
Rumpus Original Fiction: The Next Unicorn
My job was to help people suspend disbelief.
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Agency Over Anything Else: Talking with Elle Nash
Elle Nash discusses her new short story collection, NUDES.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Hibiscus Tacos
It’d been a while since I’d spent time in a body.
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If My Body Were a House
Where my masculinity dwells, I am in control.
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Rumpus Exclusive: Cover Reveal for Sex with Strangers
An exclusive look at the cover of Michael Lowenthal’s forthcoming story collection, SEX WITH STRANGERS.
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The Psychiatrist and the Butch
My dad, a psychiatrist, wants to write a sex book.
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Dark and Light at the Same Time: A Conversation with Fariha Róisín
Fariha Róisín discusses her debut novel, LIKE A BIRD.
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The Violent and the Sensual: original kink by Jubi Arriola-Headley
Violence can be turned around, turned into pleasure, or an act of freedom, or an act of defiance.
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Voices on Addiction: Heroin/e
She introduced me to the ugly of religion and to the beauty of the world.
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Possibility Is Spellbinding: The Lightness by Emily Temple
In short, lightness is the capacity to leave without regret.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore discusses her new book, THE FREEZER DOOR.
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Complicating Unhelpful Binaries: Talking with Deesha Philyaw
Deesha Philyaw discusses her debut story collection, THE SECRET LIVES OF CHURCH LADIES.
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Voices on Addiction: The Monster’s Matchstick Mistress
I want to see myself as a whole person.
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A Different Kind of Butterfly Effect: Frances Cha’s If I Had Your Face
[Y]ou can’t grow up in a cultural milieu and be immune to what it loves.
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My Boyfriend, His Lover, and Me
There is nothing I want more than a happy ending.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Chop Money”
Mal’ Atta attacked with a slew of sensory assaults.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: The Bad Kind of Puppy
That was when she realized: the ticking was coming from inside herself.
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The Authentic Self: I Live in the Country & other dirty poems by Arielle Greenberg
Every poem in I Live in the Country sells what it’s craving.
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Cutting to the Core: A Conversation with Tara Isabel Zambrano
Tara Isabel Zambrano discusses DEATH, DESIRE, AND OTHER DESTINATIONS.
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Against Respectability: A Conversation with Raven Leilani
Raven Leilani discusses her debut novel, LUSTER.
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A Poetic Smorgasbord: A History of My Brief Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt
Each sentence is calculated; each word explodes.
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Varied States of Breaking
This, I learned, is what rawness tasted like. I wanted more.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “The Warning Bell”
“You are so sexy,” he said. I met his gaze. And the warning bell rang.
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Marital Piss
My body tightened as the knee-jerk worry of being seen and outed flooded back.
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Resistance Against Erasure: Talking with Marianne Chan
Marianne Chan discusses her debut poetry collection, ALL HEATHENS.
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ENOUGH: Habit Makes Violence the Norm
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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Variants of Unknown Significance
My gynecologist won’t stop bothering me about getting a genetic test done.
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ENOUGH: The Telling of It
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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