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vagina

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The Myth of the Lazy Mothers

  • Ukamaka Olisakwe
  • September 24, 2019
I worried that I no longer knew myself.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Coyote on Holy Mesa”

  • Quintan Ana Wikswo
  • March 19, 2019
I have come to the desert in search of bones.
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  • Sex

Mom Vagina

  • Maggie Kim
  • May 7, 2018
When the physical therapist explains the electric dildo she holds in her hand will reset the nerve endings in my vagina so I won’t need to pee every hour, I say, “Get it in me and let’s go.”
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: We Be Bleeding

  • Jen Palmares Meadows
  • January 15, 2017
It will be red like your neighbor's convertible. And like that convertible, there will be a spreading open, an exposure of vulnerable flesh.
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Conceptualizing the Vagina

  • Kyle Williams
  • August 1, 2016
At Lit Hub, Dr. Fay Bound Alberti shares an excerpt of her new book, This Mortal Coil: The Human Body in History and Culture, exploring the cultural understandings and depictions of…
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Frigid

  • Jess E. Jelsma
  • March 18, 2016
My first gynecologist tells me that my vagina is on the smaller side of the normal range. I use this as a justification for why, at eighteen, I still can’t get a tampon in more than a quarter of an inch past my hymen.
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What Do We Call It?

  • Lisa Dusenbery
  • June 14, 2012
Michigan state Rep. Lisa Brown used the word “vagina” while speaking on the House floor yesterday against a bill restricting abortions. Scandalized House Republicans still aren’t over it: Brown was…
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BAD MOMMY: The Truth About Motherhood! blah, blah, blah

  • Kaui Hemmings
  • April 14, 2009
In case you missed it, the other day Oprah did a show about moms “breaking the silence” about motherhood.  Moms talked about their secret lives and feelings.  They talked about embarrassing…
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BAD MOMMY BLOG: Happy Valentine’s Day—I Give You My Vagina

  • Kaui Hemmings
  • February 11, 2009
Within one minute of meeting my waxer I am on a bed, naked from the waist down and her hand is on my vagina. I’m trying to think of something…
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