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Good Girls Revolt and Female-Focused Sex on TV

  • A.R. Wasserman
  • February 16, 2017
Sexual politics run through the very veins of this show. They are its blood, and they know how to get the female viewer’s heart pumping.
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The Rumpus Interview with Mila Jaroniec

  • Luke Wiget
  • February 15, 2017
Mila Jaroniec talks about her debut novel Plastic Vodka Bottle Sleepover,” writing autofiction, the surprising similarity between selling sex toys and selling books, and the impact of having a baby on editing.
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The Rumpus Interview with Naomi Jackson

  • Alli Maloney
  • February 6, 2017
Naomi Jackson discusses her debut novel, The Star Side of Bird Hill, how she approached writing about mental illness and its affects on a family, and choosing to to tell a story from multiple perspectives.
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Making Love

  • Brandon Hicks
  • February 5, 2017
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(K)ink: Writing While Deviant: Jennifer Gilbert

  • Jennifer Gilbert
  • January 27, 2017
Trauma steals meaning and expression. BDSM and writing create them.
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The Truth About Lying

  • Antonia Crane
  • January 16, 2017
My gut is a red, fiery drum, a beacon of rosy light. My instinct to run is a bright radioactive pink arrow, a bloody blade. I was correct.
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This Week in Short Fiction

  • Claire Burgess
  • January 13, 2017
This week, rising voice Emma Horwitz writes about teenage girls looking for some under-the-pants action (if you know what I mean (I’m talking about fingering)) at Vol. 1 Brooklyn. Horwitz’s…
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Market Researching My Desire

  • Elizabeth A. I. Powell
  • January 3, 2017
I noted the weirdness, and then filed it away until a time I might really consider the implications of wanting to bury someone’s stockings. I was lost in metaphor, which meant I was lost in everything.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #64: Lianne Stokes

  • Elisa Jordana and Sara-Kate Astrove
  • December 29, 2016
Hi there! We’re the two brunettes who hate sex. Sara-Kate hates sex because it’s too aerobic—she once sprained her foot. She lives in Kips Bay, loves candy, and wears exclusively…
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Sound over Water

  • Parrish Turner
  • December 27, 2016
We tell the stories to fit the narrative we need. But within each story we must maintain the grain of truth that will provide the urgency.
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The Alienation of an Irish Abortion

  • Tasha Kerry Smith
  • December 21, 2016
Was it a dream? A nightmare? I felt like I’d been sold a lie. There was no husband or caring partner, no safe home or solid income. Just me, pregnant and alone, in an abortion clinic with my rapist.
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The Rumpus Interview with Laura Albert

  • Meredith Maran
  • December 19, 2016
Laura Albert discusses her alter ego JT LeRoy, Jeff Feuerzeig's documentary Author: The JT LeRoy Story, her complicated relationship with her mother, and life as a hustler.
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