This Week in Short Fiction
This week, we all need a story with heart and teeth, a story that celebrates the glittering intelligence of women and the power of female friendship and dismantles the patriarchy while also being...
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#Betrayal: On Instagram, Is Hell Other Women?
When I discovered the telltale texts, I wrote Sidechick, a stranger across the country, an Instagram comment. “Cute pictures. You have a girlfriend. You don’t need to talk to mine anymore.”Sidechick...
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The Rumpus Interview with D. Foy
Reading D. Foy is like stepping on a hornet nest—in the best way! His prose is topnotch, sonic and squalid and beautiful. He also knows how to spin a hell of a yarn.His new novel Patricide is a...
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Visible: Women Writers of Color #5: Tara Betts
Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare. –Audre Lorde I reached out to author and professor Dr. Tara Betts to talk about the...
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R.I.P. #8: Inauguration Day
The morning after the election, we were all still in bed, it seemed, calling other women. We called up our mothers, our friends—best and distant—our sisters, our daughters. On Facebook, we “liked” the...
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Caroline Chege Is the Politician the World Needs
A woman runs for election in a bitterly divided country. The election is close, but in the end, she loses. It’s a narrative we all know, but this time it could have a very different end. Caroline...
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The Rumpus Mini Interview Project #75: Deborah Kampmeier
I met Deborah Kampmeier at a workshop in November. We were two weeks post-election; the room was raw with emotion, and electric with conversations about resistance. This tall, badass woman dressed in...
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Interrogating the English Language with Safiya Sinclair
I remember Safiya Sinclair from my time at Bennington College, though I’m sure she doesn’t remember me. She was one of the serious literature students who graduated my freshman year. I’ve kept up with...
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“Language Orthodoxy,” the Adichie Wars, and Western Feminism’s Enduring Myopia
“You Americans,” she said. “You Americans don’t know anything about Africa. How am I supposed to teach you African Literature when you don’t know about Africa? Put your books away,” she instructed....
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Concubines and Expat Husbands: Catching Up with Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan
Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan’s latest novel, Sarong Party Girls, is written entirely in Singlish, a patois any English speaker can understand no matter how drunk she is. This comes in handy, because reading SPG...
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The Unbearable Whiteness of Being: Claudia Cortese Discusses Wasp Queen
In her debut poetry collection Wasp Queen (Black Lawrence Press, 2016), Claudia Cortese introduces us to Lucy—a young girl from suburban Ohio who rails against her parents, her gender, her friends....
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Where You Put It on the Line: A Conversation with Mychal Denzel Smith
If you weren’t paying attention, it might appear that Mychal Denzel Smith exploded onto the scene in 2013. With a regular column in Feministing, as a Knobler Fellow for The Nation Institute, appearing...
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Mixed Feelings: Why Do Men Always Want to Settle Down?
Dear Mixed Feelings, I am the type of woman who never enters a relationship unless she can clearly see the EXIT sign. In the past, this has meant having relationships with men who clearly couldn’t, for...
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Out of the Trenches: The Rumpus Review of Wonder Woman
Moments before climbing out of an Allied trench on the Western Front to face German firepower, Wonder Woman, played by Gal Gadot, pauses for an unusual step in preparation: she lets her hair down. It’s...
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Reclaiming the Language of Pop Culture: Reversible by Marisa Crawford
Though Marisa Crawford’s powerful new collection Reversible is steeped in pop culture references—from images of a shoplifting Courtney Love, to Betsey Johnson dresses and Tom Petty lyrics—her poems...
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Making a Narrative in the Darkness: A Conversation with Samantha Hunt
Samantha Hunt has written three novels: The Seas, the tale of a woman who may be a mermaid; The Invention of Everything Else, in which a young hotel maid befriends Nikola Tesla; and Mr. Splitfoot, one...
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I Choose My Pearls: On Feminism, Fashion, and Disneyland
“We fought for years so you didn’t have to dress like that,” said the woman next to me waiting to board Disneyland’s Big Thunder Mountain Railroad. “That” was a kitten-patterned red circle dress, a...
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“Everywhere They Hurt Little Girls”: Female Revenge in Game of Thrones
For disempowered female characters in Game of Thrones, revenge is a symbolic act of asserting agency. It can be done quietly and intimately, like Ellaria Sand murdering Myrcella Lannister with a...
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Wisdom Is a Double-Edged Sword: Talking with Jay Baron Nicorvo
I have to admit that when The Rumpus asked me if I wanted to interview Jay Baron Nicorvo about his debut novel The Standard Grand (St. Martin’s Press), I thought the synopsis sounded a bit wild: a...
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Finding the Finally: Alice Anderson Discusses Some Bright Morning, I’ll Fly Away
It took five seconds for me to fall in love with Alice Anderson. When we met last year, I became captivated by her charm and hilarity. Plus, she has this magic, otherworldly quality that made me feel...
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