ENOUGH: They Have So Many Ways to Keep Us Quiet
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A Political Pregnancy
The spring that Trump wins the Republican primary, I discover I am pregnant with my second child. The pregnancy is unintended. A surprise. A month after I tell my husband I want to stop at one child,...
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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...
View ArticleENOUGH: Infra Dig
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No Resolutions: Talking with Lidia Yuknavitch
On a blustery, wet December night, Lidia Yuknavitch snuggles next to me on a loveseat. We’re in a low-lit Portland wine bar, tucked under the stairs. We order wine, and agree that when there’s burrata,...
View ArticleENOUGH: Consent Is Not a Gray Area
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View ArticleFraught Woods: Chelsea Rathburn’s Still Life with Mother and Knife
As I write this, it is autumn, or what I’ve come to think of as the season of re-traumatization of women and girls. Three years ago this autumn we learned of the Access Hollywood tape, in which the...
View ArticleENOUGH: The Innocence of a Skirt Too Far Above the Knees
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Voices on Addiction: We Love Our Sons, We Raise Our Daughters
About a year after the sentence “indelible on the hippocampus was the sound of their laughter” became a rallying cry for all women who have been ridiculed by the boys and men who hurt them, I was...
View ArticleENOUGH: I’m Just So Tired
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...
View ArticleENOUGH: All I Could Do to Survive
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...
View ArticleENOUGH: Trapped
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FUNNY WOMEN: Women from the PoV of Male Creative Writing Undergrads
I heard her bra unhinge with a long scraping sound and then fall to the floor with a thunk. * The bleeding was ferocious, unknowable, liquid, solid. It poured from her, a libation held to the moon,...
View ArticleOde to Girlhood: Olivia Gatwood’s Life of the Party
Last summer, around the time when Olivia Gatwood’s Life of the Party was published in New York, I was sleeping on friends’ couches in Tel Aviv. It was my annual homeland visit from Chicago, and I was...
View ArticleENOUGH: Flesh and Bone and Ash
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We Will Not Be Contained: Pretty Bitches and Too Much
I like eating sandwiches alone. My favorite sandwiches are too big to eat neatly; fat crusts of bread fail to contain slippery avocado, hunks of cheddar cheese, creamy smears of mayonnaise. Crumbs rain...
View ArticleENOUGH: The Most Important Thing a Woman Could Be
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View ArticleENOUGH: The Choice
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Funny Women: Women Respond to Ads
“The consumer isn’t a moron. She is your wife.”— David Ogilvy, Confessions of an Advertising Man Below, five women talk about how the advertising industry has made has them feel and the impressions...
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Finding Hope in Resistance: Talking with Amy Roost
Fury: Women’s Lived Experiences During the Trump Era, edited by Amy Roost and Alissa Hirshfeld and published last month by Pact Press, is an anthology of personal essays from a diverse cross section of...
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