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Rumpus Original Fiction: On Sight

  • Brian Lin
  • October 13, 2021
You stood and put your hair up. It made you a different man. You got hard and decided you were why.
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Trust in Action: Talking with the Editors of Fat and Queer

  • Sarah Fawn Montgomery
  • June 11, 2021
Co-editors Bruce Owens Grimm, Miguel M. Morales, and Tiff Joshua TJ Ferentini discuss FAT AND QUEER.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Soft Butch”

  • Nora E. Derrington
  • May 10, 2021
For as long as I can remember, I wanted to be strong, to be tough. I didn’t want to be soft.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #218: Rufi Thorpe

  • Frances Yackel
  • May 21, 2020
“It doesn’t matter your gender or your sexual orientation; you can disorder your eating.”
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Reimagining Jesus: A Conversation with Savannah Sipple

  • Rebecca Gayle Howell
  • April 10, 2019
Savannah Sipple discusses her debut collection, WWJD AND OTHER POEMS.
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Four Courses

  • Dina Kleiner
  • December 24, 2018
I eat, and eat, and eat, and mourn.
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Writing Back to History: A Conversation with Kiese Laymon

  • Monet Patrice Thomas
  • October 17, 2018
Kiese Laymon discusses his new memoir, HEAVY.
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  • Marissa Korbel
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The Thread: All in My Head

  • Marissa Korbel
  • September 18, 2018
I am in a war, and some of the toughest battles happen in my head.
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Form as Container: Samantha Zighelboim’s The Fat Sonnets

  • Molly Fisk
  • September 14, 2018
Zighelboim almost has to break the form into pieces in order to speak; a fourteen-word poem is really only the echo of a sonnet.
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Transgressive and Unruly Women: Talking with Anne Helen Petersen

  • Rachel Vorona Cote
  • September 6, 2017
Anne Helen Peterson discusses her new book, Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman, her writing process, and academia.
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VISIBLE: Women Writers of Color: Samantha Irby

  • Deesha Philyaw
  • July 19, 2017
Samantha Irby discusses her new collection, We Are Never Meeting in Real Life, her reluctance to call herself a writer, and writing for the “cream jeans” crowd.
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Make/Work Episode 39: Dorian Wood

  • Scott Pinkmountain
  • May 23, 2017
In episode 39 of The Rumpus’s Make/Work podcast, host Scott Pinkmountain speaks with musician, vocalist, and experimental performer Dorian Wood.
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