sexuality Archives - The Rumpus

Speaking to Men at Parties

There are moments when the light passes just right over the high point of someone’s cheekbone and I imagine my whole life as it would have been in a different universe, tracing the events of this imaginary life from that spot on their face to my death.

From the Archive: Rumpus Original Fiction: An Other Man

This is a carousel that never slows to a point where you can board gracefully.

ENOUGH: Alone

A Rumpus series of work by women, trans, and nonbinary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Rumpus Original Fiction: Sabbath

There’s something about stillness that always comes just before the miracles.

ENOUGH: Witch That She Is

A Rumpus series of work by women, trans, and nonbinary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.

ENOUGH: Girl Power

A Rumpus series of work by women, trans, and nonbinary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.

ENOUGH: Screaming at Ghosts

A Rumpus series of work by women, trans, and nonbinary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.

From the Archive: Unbound

It’s always been ground glass, scraping against my insides. I imagine a light held to the place where I open would illuminate a mess of torn flesh, throbbing red-wet.

ENOUGH: Letting Myself Breathe

A Rumpus series of work by women, trans, and nonbinary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.

ENOUGH: The House with the Green Shutters

A Rumpus series of work by women, trans, and nonbinary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.

ENOUGH: A Heat That Demands Attention

A Rumpus series of work by women, trans, and nonbinary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.

ENOUGH: Loud as Clouds

A Rumpus series of work by women, trans, and nonbinary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.

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