Down with Marriage?
Meghan Murphy at xoJane thinks that marriage is a tool of patriarchy. To her, rejecting marriage is the feminist choice.Marriage has been an institution within which women have suffered abuse, rape,...
View ArticleRest in Peace, Patriarchy
Yesterday, Slate announced the death of the patriarchy at the age of several thousand years.The Cut’s Kat Stoeffel has honored the dearly departed, which will be mourned by civilizations across the...
View ArticleFeminism Today
At the Los Angeles Review of Books, editor and founder of Bookslut.com Jessa Crispin writes on feminism in its contemporary incarnation by way of two recent critiques of 50 Shades of Grey. She draws a...
View ArticlePatriarchy’s Slow Unwinding
For the New York Times Magazine, A.O. Scott argues about the “slow unwinding” of patriarchy in American culture, drawing on modern television, history, and literature. In part responding to Ruth...
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The Rumpus Interview with Elisa Albert
Elisa Albert’s piece on breastfeeding in public had just gone live at TIME Magazine when I saw her read from her novel After Birth at the Rensselaerville Library’s Festival of Writers this past August....
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The Rumpus Interview with Sarah Manguso
Poet Sarah Manguso’s newest book is so short, I was able to read it twice, which is impressive because she covered what felt like a lifetime in so few words. Ongoingness is a distilled memoir that...
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The Saturday Rumpus Review of It Follows
In the recent horror film sensation It Follows, a young woman, Jay (Maika Monroe), watchers herself in the mirror. She’s preparing to go out with a man she only recently met, a mysterious loner named...
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The Saturday Rumpus Review: Mad Max: Fury Road
Who killed the world?My favorite detail in Mad Max: Fury Road is the fact that this question ultimately goes unanswered. This film deeply critiques masculinity, and many feminist critics have, somewhat...
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The Last Book I Loved: Home
As the names of the unarmed casualties of police shootings continue to appear on our computer screens, many wonder how to speak in the face of the daily misrepresentation of systemic oppression. Some...
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The Rumpus Interview with Zarina Zabrisky
Bay Area poet, performer, fiction writer, and Russian native Zarina Zabrisky has aptly titled her new collection of short stories Explosion (Epic Rites Press). This collection offers glimpses of...
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A Brief History of Pandering
Claire Vaye Watkins’s essay “On Pandering,” about how much her writing has been influenced by a desire for the approval of the “white male lit establishment,” caused such a frenzy that it crashed Tin...
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Conversations with Writers Braver than Me #18: Anne Roiphe
For some time I’ve wanted to interview author, journalist, and essayist Anne Roiphe for this column. I mean, who better to ask about the ramifications of writing about family than someone who has...
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The Rumpus Interview with Laura Mullen
Laura Mullen is the author of eight books: Complicated Grief, Enduring Freedom: A Little Book of Mechanical Brides, Dark Archive, Murmur, Subject, After I Was Dead, The Tales of Horror, and The...
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Against Silencing: Why All Writers—Even White Men—Should Discuss Gender
What does it mean for men to talk about being men? Mostly it means not talking at all, at least, not in an unguarded, safe, real way. Self-censorship is a twisted birthright passed down to boys by...
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The Rumpus Interview with Jessa Crispin
I felt intensely jealous when I first encountered the premise of Jessa Crispin’s essay collection The Dead Ladies Project: when she was thirty, Crispin sold all of her belongings that wouldn’t fit in a...
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The Recipe to Decolonized Love is in Beyoncé’s Lemonade
At first glance, Beyoncé’s Lemonade is a stunning visual album that details a betrayed woman’s path to healing and forgiveness after her husband’s serial cheating.But if you peel back the skin—as...
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The Rumpus Review of Mustang: Five French Girls Walk into an Anatolian Village
A few nights ago, I reluctantly watched the French-produced, Academy Award-nominated movie, Mustang. It had been recommended to me—twice—by a trusted source. Furthermore, as more and more American...
View ArticleFathers, and Stories, and Father’s Day Stories from the Sunday Rumpus
This time last year I sat for days with my father in his room at Virginia Mason Hospital in Seattle, recording his voice as he narrated the story of his life. “She’s helping me write my memoirs,” he...
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The Rumpus Interview with Maryse Meijer
In Maryse Meijer’s debut collection, Heartbreaker, there is no unnecessary adornment, nothing to detract from the dark torrents that move the stories forward. Taboo, sex, gendered power, and violence...
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Kahlo vs. Kardashian: The Subversive Potential of the Female Self-Portrait
The first record of the self-portrait dates back to the 1490s, according to James Hall, the author of Self Portrait: A Cultural History, and it was with the self-portrait that a distinctive veneration...
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