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: sexual trauma
The Psychiatrist and the Butch
My dad, a psychiatrist, wants to write a sex book.
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Revisiting and Reinventing the Body: A Conversation with Destiny O. Birdsong
Destiny O. Birdsong discusses her debut poetry collection, NEGOTIATIONS.
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Through a Prism: A Conversation with Sarah Kasbeer
Sarah Kasbeer discusses her debut essay collection, A WOMAN, A PLAN, AN OUTLINE OF A MAN.
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Setting Yourself Free: A Conversation with Alisson Wood
Alisson Wood discusses her debut memoir, BEING LOLITA.
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The Complications of #MeToo: Mary Gaitskill’s This Is Pleasure
Quin, too, must make sense of his behavior and the consequences.
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A Fantastic Communion: Renaissance Normcore by Adèle Barclay
Salt—the speaker’s only remains, after she dives into the ocean and sets herself free of the past.
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Mothers and Daughters: Girl by Veronica Golos
Bodies become something to escape from or leave behind.
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Learning to Listen: A Conversation with Natalia Hero
Natalia Hero discusses her debut novella, HUM.
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ENOUGH: The Choice
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: All I Could Do to Survive
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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Fraught Woods: Chelsea Rathburn’s Still Life with Mother and Knife
These are the woods through which we walk from an early age.
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On Love and Dogs: Cleanness by Garth Greenwell
Greenwell tells his story on the narrator’s terms, and that makes all the difference.
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ENOUGH: Consent Is Not a Gray Area
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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Scientific, Healing Magic: How to Know the Flowers by Jessica Smith
A poem by Jessica Smith yields the feeling that atoms of meaning vibrate, then come together.
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Slouching Toward Vantage: A Conversation with Taneum Bambrick
Taneum Bambrick discusses her debut poetry collection, VANTAGE.
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The Fantasy of the Femme Fatale
I couldn’t help but see these women-led stories as missed opportunities.
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A Different Kind of Balance: Talking with Samantha Giles
Poet Samantha Giles discusses her newest collection, TOTAL RECALL.
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ENOUGH: The Quartering Act
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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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #179: Miriam Toews
“The root causes of patriarchal violence need to be understood.”
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ENOUGH: The Face of Zero
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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Free Indirect Suicide: An Unfinished Fugue in H Minor
I want a PhD in how to want, effortlessly, to be alive.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #165: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
“The opposite of nostalgia is truth.”
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Peripheral Terror: Total Recall by Samantha Giles
There is horror in how a memory can be altered or rendered “false” by exterior forces.
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Unspeakable Mothers: Talking with Sophia Shalmiyev
Sophia Shalmiyev discusses her debut memoir, MOTHER WINTER.
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Equal Rights Never Go out of Style: Talking with Monica Prince
Monica Prince discusses writing, advocacy, and the art of the choreopoem.
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Complicating Narratives: A Conversation with Bushra Rehman
Bushra Rehman discusses her new poetry collection, MARIANNA’S BEAUTY SALON.
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A Séance of a Book: Talking with Allie Rowbottom
Allie Rowbottom discusses her debut memoir, JELL-O GIRLS.
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