Being Seen: A Conversation with Lane Moore
Lane Moore discusses her first book, HOW TO BE ALONE.
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Posts Tagged: shame
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #185: Lisa Taddeo
“It’s cruel to not say, I see you. I know you exist.”
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Transcending the Trauma: A Conversation with Tracy Strauss
Tracy Strauss discusses her debut memoir, I JUST HAVEN’T MET YOU YET.
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An East African Girl and Her White Troubadours
I was a lonely, dreamy, occasionally silly girl.
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Voices on Addiction: Fault Lines
After, they said I was like a saint. Death changes people’s memory.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: A World in a Box
Saturday is a desert in a motel.
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Voices on Addiction: They Call It Spirits
Why was he so broken? And why did his broken make me feel broken, too?
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Reimagining Jesus: A Conversation with Savannah Sipple
Savannah Sipple discusses her debut collection, WWJD AND OTHER POEMS.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: In the Large Room Where Your Future Is Kept
She told herself it was a new beginning. Nothing would be taken for granted again.
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Undertones
One moment white, the next Latina, the next neither.
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Voices on Addiction: One More Conversation
That’s how I felt again, then: a child suddenly fallen, helpless. Unable even to breathe.
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I Assimilate into Mere Bubbles
It’s subtle, the violence of language.
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A Body Is a Bill to Pay
If my body is a bill to pay, my voice will be singing the receipts.
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Flowers Grow in Sh*t: Talking with Sohaila Abdulali
Sohaila Abdulali discusses her new book, WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT RAPE.
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Total Freedom: A Conversation with Theresa Griffin Kennedy
Theresa Griffin Kennedy discusses her new story collection, BURNSIDE FIELD LIZARD.
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ENOUGH: Handing Back the Shame
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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Naked in Japan
Thin bodies, thick bodies, fit bodies, round bodies. I’d never seen so much flesh.
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Breaking the Codes
So I said nothing. To protect you, and to protect myself.
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ENOUGH: Whose Shame Is It, Anyway?
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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Sharp and Twisty and Complicated: Talking with Melanie Abrams
Melanie Abrams discusses her debut novel, PLAYING, and a forthcoming novel, MEADOWLARK.
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A Two-Hour Dance Class in Thirty Minutes
When she called out for floor performance I knew this would not be my day.
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ENOUGH: Dissolution
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 Torment of Queer Literature
Queer literature isn’t a box to unlock so that it can unlock me.
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A Part of Me
Now my not wanting men to be front and center in my life capitalized sperm into a rare commodity. Empowered reproduction is largely a myth.
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Voices on Addiction: Spontaneous Combustion
I remember hunger the way other children remember love.
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(K)ink: Writing While Deviant: Emily Smith
A writer must push her pleasure into risk, expose herself publicly to strangers with no knowledge of how she might be received, and become something that must be seen.
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Effacement of the Mother
When I came home from war, I felt relief. Now that I’m home after childbirth, I’m still waiting for relief. War ends. Motherhood does not.
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In the Wake of His Damage
To be named, and yet not named. Something broke in me when I read his synopsis of us, as if I had been summarily dismissed after twenty long years.
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The Emotion of the Moment: Talking with Terese Marie Mailhot
Terese Marie Mailhot discusses her debut memoir, Heart Berries, crafting trauma on the page, and her views on motherhood after writing her memoir.
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Inheritance
I married a man who is related to me. I started dating him when I was seventeen and of course, my mother immediately liked him. He grew up in my parents’ hometown.
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