He Comes While We Are Walking
It doesn’t feel good, does it? I didn’t see it coming either.
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Posts Tagged: street harassment
Bald-headed Muthaf*cker
Healing is slow. Fast. Slow again.
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Breaking Out of Likability: A Conversation with Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
Tatyana Fazlalizadeh discusses her new book, STOP TELLING WOMEN TO SMILE.
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ENOUGH: If No One’s There to Hear It
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: I Smiled at A Man: An Anecdote
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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Lessons for Female Success
I am nowhere, but despite having erased his marks, he is everywhere.
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ENOUGH: The Type of Boy You Were Taught to Want
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: While the Wild Dogs in Me Strain at Their Leashes
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: The Conversation Is Just Beginning
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 Poetry Book Club Chat with Khadijah Queen
Khadijah Queen about her new collection I’m So Fine, the importance of including sexual assault as a part of everyday life, and how the poems in the collection found their form.
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The Rumpus Interview with Lauren Elkin
Writer and academic Lauren Elkin discusses her latest book Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London, the freedoms and constraints of urban space for women, and the power of first person.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: To Prey on Birds
I am alone. Alone with my small size, my cracking bones, and the guilt that wraps around my spine like a jungle vine. Don’t be hysterical, I repeat to myself.
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Every woman—at least the ones living in big cities—has a response to street harassment, whether it’s flipping the catcaller the bird or ignoring him completely. Photographer Hannah Price’s reaction is different from most: she takes pictures of her harassers, sometimes candidly, sometimes with permission. See some of her remarkable photos and read a brief but […]
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Under the Table
The headaches, my difficulty focusing, my specimen-daze, that floating island, my spastic, nervous heart—which are side effects from drinking, and which were inevitable?
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