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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #64: Lianne Stokes

  • Elisa Jordana and Sara-Kate Astrove
  • December 29, 2016
Hi there! We’re the two brunettes who hate sex. Sara-Kate hates sex because it’s too aerobic—she once sprained her foot. She lives in Kips Bay, loves candy, and wears exclusively…
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Night

  • Theo Pauline Nestor
  • September 3, 2016
With these young women, I no longer slip in and out of places undetected. With them, my cloak of invisibility—my only known superpower—has been removed.
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The Rumpus Interview with Leigh Stein

  • Sarah Lyn Rogers
  • August 8, 2016
Leigh Stein discusses her new memoir, Land of Enchantment, co-founding Out of the Binders, and why most of her projects begin as "an idea that someone else pushes back on."
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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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Housesitting

  • Marilyn Abildskov
  • September 25, 2015
When you arrived, you reached under the mat to pick up the keys in an envelope. Inside, a note on the kitchen counter said help yourself to anything in the pantry or fridge.
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The Rumpus Interview with Phoebe Gloeckner

  • Whitney Joiner
  • August 8, 2015
Artist and author Phoebe Gloeckner talks about her semi-autobiographical novel The Diary of a Teenage Girl, just adapted into a film starring Kristen Wiig and Alexander Skarsgard, and what she's working on now.
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Paper Birds

  • Liz Asch
  • December 31, 2014
Clearing those pages plain, I'd make time fall away and distance shorten impossibly, fold upon fold, until the page was no longer a record of our histories but an origami swan.
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About the Human Hymen (Disambiguation)

  • Emma Bolden
  • March 5, 2014
And because I had all of that ice to think about, it was difficult to understand what my gynecologist was saying about what he had just done inside of my body.
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Notes from Underground

  • Joshua Mohr
  • March 16, 2009
The world will end in a matter of hours… unless Lowboy can lose his virginity.
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