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Rumpus Original Fiction: Purity Party

  • Bailey Cunningham
  • June 16, 2021
I used to be able to teach sex without thinking about sex.
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ENOUGH: Crime and Composure

  • The Rumpus
  • December 10, 2019
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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Rumpus Exclusive: “Too Sexy”

  • Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
  • October 3, 2018
I am not coked out of my mind, I’m coked into my mind.
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On Unsteady Ground: the earthquake room by Davey Davis

  • Laura Thorne
  • February 21, 2018
[T]his is a book about the ways in which even our most intimate relationships can slip beyond our control, fracturing along barely perceptible fault lines.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: I Died of Dysentery

  • Beth Roddy
  • February 5, 2017
The glorious ways we fifth graders died in Mr. Mosher’s computer class. We strove to die in the most imaginable permutations possible.
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The Rumpus Interview with Monica Byrne

  • Christina Tesoro
  • April 22, 2015
Monica Byrne talks about sex, gender, the insidious power of stereotypes, and putting relationships between women at the center of her novel, The Girl in the Road.
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