Posts Tagged: sexism
Claiming Space to Matter: Talking with Jennifer Berney
Jennifer Berney discusses her debut memoir, THE OTHER MOTHERS.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Sheila Squillante
“I felt like I wanted to do it and not explain it.”
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Criticism as a Life Practice: A Conversation with Yxta Maya Murray
Yxta Maya Murray discusses her new novel, ART IS EVERTHING.
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Imposing the Life on the System: A Conversation with Eula Biss
Eula Biss discusses her new book, HAVING AND BEING HAD.
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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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Swinging Modern Sounds: Observations on the Occasion of a 100th Column
The clash of opinions about music is music itself.
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Spotlight: The Rumpus Review of John Stanley’s Little Lulu
For the longest time, John Stanley’s Little Lulu was one of the best kept secrets in comics.
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Save St. Mark’s
It is fifteen years after the renovation, and St. Mark’s struggles to breathe.
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FUNNY WOMEN: The Ideal Female Boss
She knows how to yell, but wouldn’t yell if her life depended on it.
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The Rumpus Mini-interview Project: Andrea Bartz
“And as those masks fall away, we get down to the shame and envy underneath.”
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Re-Contextualizing Dolly Parton in Her Full Glory: Talking with Sarah Smarsh
Sarah Smarsh discusses her new book, SHE COME BY IT NATURAL.
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Divestment
Secrecy stitched us a fraudulent reality. Denial masqueraded as hope.
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Queering the Southern Gothic: A Conversation with Genevieve Hudson
Genevieve Hudson discusses her debut novel, BOYS OF ALABAMA.
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On Empathy, Complexity, and Whimsy: Talking with Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Aimee Nezhukumatathil discusses her new book, WORLD OF WONDERS.
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Quiet, Radical Defiance: The Equivalents by Maggie Doherty
Education, work, study: these were not simply a means to an end.
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Hybrid by Nature: A Conversation with Tara Campbell
Tara Campbell discusses her new book, POLITICAL AF: A RAGE COLLECTION.
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Let Our Rage Become a Storm: Kelly Grace Thomas’s Boat Burned
In this collection, women are “vesseled,” carrying the burdens of our culture.
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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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Tech Is Boring: Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener
Luckily, Wiener offers us more than eloquent masochism.
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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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We Stand with the People
We will not let this continue
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ENOUGH: Brave Takes Away My Permission
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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Circuitous Journeys: Talking with Sejal Shah
Sejal Shah discusses her debut essay collection, THIS IS ONE WAY TO DANCE.
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ENOUGH: Something More Like Men
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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ENOUGH: Beautiful Teeth
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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On Loss of Land and Loss of Girlhood: Taneum Bambrick’s Vantage
Girlhood remains, like the land, a constant site of male fascination, desire, and violence.
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The Joypain of Parenting: Lydia Kiesling’s The Golden State
This is both the exercise and exorcism of motherhood.
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Queer Logic: Females and My Autobiography of Carson McCullers
“Everyone is female, and everyone hates it.” A provocation. An invitation.
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