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ENOUGH: Rape of a Goddess
ENOUGH is a Rumpus series devoted to creating a dedicated space for essays, poetry, fiction, comics, and artwork by women and non-binary people that engage with rape culture, sexual assault, and...
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #179: Miriam Toews
In her deeply affecting novel about her sister’s suicide, All My Puny Sorrows, Miriam Toews writes, “Books are what save us. Books are what don’t save us.” She echoed this sentiment years later in a...
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A Correspondence: On the Humanity of Literature
While on vacation, summer of 2012, I visited the Museum of Innocence: a newly renovated building in the middle of Istanbul’s Çukurcuma antique district. My Turkish family surprised me with tickets, the...
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The Invisible Story Beneath the Story: A Conversation with Catherine Chung
To read Catherine Chung is to live inside her worlds. With language that stuns as it captivates, her characters steal the heart. This was the unique magic of her debut novel, Forgotten Country, and I...
View ArticleENOUGH: He Feels like Gravel under My Skin
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A Confluence of Narratives: Talking with Debra Gwartney
Narcissa Prentiss Whitman might seem an unlikely heroine nowadays. The Christian missionary is commonly considered the first white woman to cross the Rocky Mountains, and the first to bear a child in...
View ArticleENOUGH: The Quartering Act
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You Are Your Own Director: A Conversation with Karen Finley
Karen Finley is as bold as they come. While her work varies in mediums—poetry, prose, and, performance art—it is always controversial. She fuses together anger and humor to help dismember American...
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #185: Lisa Taddeo
When Lisa Taddeo set out to write a book about female desire, Barack Obama was still president. We hadn’t yet taken to the streets in pink hats to defend our pussies, and saying “I believe her” wasn’t...
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Introducing Lamoishe and Hezbollah Schoenfeld
My grandfather was a medical officer in World War II who participated in the liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp. He said the best meal of his life was during the war, when the 12th Armored...
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The Real Community Guidelines: How to Be a True Ally
I was lying in bed, naked except for my boxer briefs, preparing to post my chapbook cover reveal on my personal Instagram when the Assistant Editor of Animal Heart Press messaged me to tell me that my...
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What to Read When the Patriarchy’s Got You Down
In the past two years, whenever the patriarchy got me down—so just about every morning when I asked the Internet what was new—I turned to the book I was compiling and editing for McSweeney’s, an...
View ArticleENOUGH: Good Girls Don’t Sing
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #194: Sarah Rose Etter
Sarah Rose Etter is the author of The Book of X, which is out now on Two Dollar Radio. Her work has appeared in The Cut, Electric Literature, Guernica, New York Tyrant, Black Warrior Review, The...
View ArticleENOUGH: Rape Girl
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View ArticleENOUGH: I Live with the Monster
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The Mentor Series: Preti Taneja and Maureen Freely
The sixth installment of The Mentor Series is a feast of knowledge. It includes a blood pact, lots of a fatherly wisdom, and a compelling reason for why you shouldn’t be impressed by your own good...
View ArticleENOUGH: Too Much Underneath
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Celebrating Queer Portland: A Conversation with Claire Rudy Foster
When I was asked to interview Foster about their forthcoming short story collection, Shine of the Ever, I clapped my hands together and wiggled in my chair. We had not yet met, which is surprising...
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