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Podcatcher #3: Poetry Jawns

  • P.E. Garcia
  • July 6, 2016
Emma Sanders and Alina Pleskova charm us with their affection for each other, DIY ethos, and belief on Poetry Jawns, what matters is the work.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Do You Have a Beau?

  • Ariel Gore
  • July 3, 2016
Shame is the haunting that’s hardest to scrub away.
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  • Television

The Diary of Anaïs Nin While Binge-Watching Broad City

  • Laura Eppinger
  • June 23, 2016
One episode after another with every outrageous twist and turn. I smile but no laughter comes—just a gaping mouth wishing to devour more!
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  • (K)ink: Writing While Deviant
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  • Sex

(K)ink: Writing While Deviant: Jera Brown

  • Jera Brown
  • June 14, 2016
I wanted to uncover the nest of wires comprising my gender identity and describe its complicated mass.
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The Rumpus Interview with Rebecca Schiff

  • Emma Winsor Wood
  • June 8, 2016
Rebecca Schiff discusses her debut collection The Bed That Moved, choosing narrators who share similarities with each other and with herself, and whether feminism and fiction-writing conflict.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: On Documentation

  • Joselyn Takacs
  • May 27, 2016
What is it like to be you? he was always asking, in his way, and it seemed a stupid question then. I didn’t know. I could lie better than I could tell the truth. I hadn’t left yet.
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Prince - Lovesexy | Rumpus Music
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You’re Just a Sinner I Am Told: Prince & the Sexual Revolution

  • Anna March
  • May 5, 2016
It was all about desire, including women’s desire, Prince’s music. Women were not degraded. They were exalted, body and mind both.
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Narrowly Avoiding the Spotlight

  • Michael McDermit
  • April 28, 2016
It took me nearly twenty years and the power of a fine film to fully realize what happened to me in the confessional was an inappropriate act by an adult against a child.
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: A Brief History of a Bad Heart

  • Jason Vargas
  • April 9, 2016
She studies you, still panting with an energy that consumes the room, and whispers in a reedy voice: “They say you fucked up your heart.”
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  • Other

YA Novels Help Parents Talk Sex

  • Ian MacAllen
  • April 7, 2016
A discussion with your kid about the birds and the bees might be one of the more intimidating moments of parenthood, but YA novelists can lend a hand. When YA writers confront modern…
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Weekly Geekery

  • Lyz Lenz
  • March 29, 2016
The mystery of schizophrenia and the mystery of identity. History in the cloud. Opting out of social media. Sex restores the balance within us.
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Frigid

  • Jess E. Jelsma
  • March 18, 2016
My first gynecologist tells me that my vagina is on the smaller side of the normal range. I use this as a justification for why, at eighteen, I still can’t get a tampon in more than a quarter of an inch past my hymen.
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