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-- You're never alone on the Internet. Twitter Facebook Tumblr Feed Your support is critical to our existence. Topics Art Books Comics Film Humor Media Music Poetry Politics Sex Television Columns Dear Sugar Allyson McCabe Cullen Thomas David Biespiel Deesha Philyaw ENOUGH Funny Women (K)ink: Writing While Deviant Marissa Korbel Rick Moody Roxane Gay Rumpus Original Fiction Rumpus Original Poems Sari Botton Suzanne Koven Voices on Addiction Letters In The Mail Letters For Kids Book Club Poetry Book Club Store Menu The Rumpus Blog Books Comics Film Music Poetry Sex Shop Search What Am I Fighting For?: A Conversation with Deborah A. Miranda By ire’ne lara silva December 23rd, 2020 Deborah A. Miranda discusses her new collection of poetry, ALTAR FOR BROKEN THINGS. ...more Tags: Altar for Broken Things , appropriation , Billy-Ray Belcourt , Christian , Christianity , Chumash , colonialism , colonization , Deborah A. Miranda , decolonization , environment , environmental crisis , Esselen , Heid Erdrich , homophobia , Indigenous , injustice , ire’ne lara silva , Joy Harjo , Layli Long Soldier , LGBTQ , microaggressions , Natalie Diaz , Native American , natural world , nature , patriarchy , poems , poetry , police brutality , poverty , Racism , Standing Rock , systemic change , systemic inequality , systemic racism , systemic violence , Tommy Pico , violence , white privilege , White Supremacy Spotlight: “Restful Meditations for the 100% Normal, Well-Adjusted Human” By Eloise Grills December 22nd, 2020 Breathe in… breathe out. ...more Tags: Comics , Eloise Grills , meditation , Spotlight , Spotlight Series Winter Baby By Marissa Landrigan December 21st, 2020 Something new in the dead darkness. Short days and shimmers of light. ...more Tags: Amsterdam , anxiety , Ativan , babies , garden , gardening , Honeymoon , husband , husbands and wives , Marissa Landrigan , marriage , motherhood , mothers , panic , parenting , pregnancy , pregnancy test , pregnant , therapy , Zoloft We’re All Difficult Women Now: Talking with Avni Doshi By Naheed Patel December 21st, 2020 Avni Doshi discusses her debut novel, BURNT SUGAR. ...more Tags: Aravind Adiga , Avni Doshi , Burnt Sugar , childhood trauma , community , daughters , debut novel , elena ferrante , first sentences , gender inequality , gender roles , Lolita , MFA , misogyny , mothers , mothers and daughters , Nabokov , Naheed Patel , Overlook Press , performative , performing , revising , revision , smell , The Lying Life of Adults , The White Tiger , Tibor Jones South Asia Prize , trauma , unlikable characters , women's bodies , writing community Memoir Monday Online: Harper, Elliott, Gabbert, Machado By The Rumpus December 19th, 2020 Watch December’s online Memoir Monday reading! ...more Tags: A Mind Spread Out on the Ground , Alicia Elliott , carmen maria machado , catapult , Elisa Gabbert , granta , Guernica , Her Body and Other Parties , In the Dream House , Lilly Dancyger , Literary Hub , memoir monday , Michele Harper , Narratively , The Beauty in Breaking , The Unreality of Memory What to Read When You Don’t Know If You Can Go Home Again By Kristen Millares Young December 18th, 2020 Kristen Millares Young shares a reading list to celebrate SUBDUCTION. ...more Tags: Biodun Jeyifo , Danielle Geller , Dog Flowers , Elissa Washuta , Elizabeth Rosner , girlhood , Images Stone BC , Indigenous and Decolonizing Studies in Education , James Baldwin , Kristen Millares Young , Luis Alberto Urrea , Melissa Febos , Mukoma Wa Ngugi , My Body Is a Book of Rules , Nobody's Son , Sandra Styres , Subduction , Survivor Café , Taiaiake Alfred , What to Read When , White Magic , Wilson Duff Misery Loves Company: A Conversation with Sarah J. Sloat By J.M. Farkas December 18th, 2020 Sarah J. Sloat discusses her new collection of erasure poetry, HOTEL ALMIGHTY. ...more Tags: A Little White Shadow , Ali Smith , Allan Bealy , Carrie , Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude , Chase Berggrun , collage , Collier Nogues , cory peeke , E Kristin Anderson , Elaine Equi , erasure , erasure poems , erasure poetry , Erik Satie , Ethel Rackin , Excuse me while I wring this long swim out of my hair , Georg Christoph Lichtenberg , Hannah Höch , Harryette Mullen , Heiress to a Small Ruin , Hotel Almighty , Jen Bervin , JM Farkas , Kurt Schwitters , Lesle Lewis , Marin Sorescu , Mary Ruefle , Matthea Harvey , Melinda Tidwell , Misery , Nets , Novica Tadić , Obit , poems , poetry , ross gay , Sarabande Books , Sarah J. Sloat , Stephen King , The Accidental , The Dead Zone , The Ground I Stand on Is Not My Ground , The Poeming , The Shining , The Stand , Vasko Popa , Victoria Chang , visual art , visual poetry , Walt Whitman The Quiet Poetry of Post-Rock By Karen Cheung December 17th, 2020 You just have to sink into the music and let it wash over you. ...more Tags: autumn , Bark Psychosis , Cantonese , CHVRCHES , concerts , Constant & Change , Franz Ferdinand , gilead , glasgow , God Is an Astronaut , Godspeed You! 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By Nadia Shahbaz December 16th, 2020 Everything old felt far away; everything new felt exhilarating. ...more Tags: advertising , Afghan , Afghanistan , Brighton , divorce , England , fathers , fathers and daughters , fiction , husbands and wives , immigrant , immigrants , immigration , marketing , marriage , Nadia Shahbaz , parenthood , parenting , relationships , Rumpus Original Fiction , short fiction , short stories , short story Complicating Unhelpful Binaries: Talking with Deesha Philyaw By Nia Norris December 16th, 2020 Deesha Philyaw discusses her debut story collection, THE SECRET LIVES OF CHURCH LADIES. ...more Tags: affair , affairs , american south , Bassey Ikpi , binaries , Black churches , black women , church , Coparenting 101 , COVID-19 , debut collection , Deesha Philyaw , fiction , florida , George Floyd , Great Migration , Heads of the Colored People , How to Sit , I'm Telling the Truth But I'm Lying , infidelity , Jacksonville , James Baldwin , marriage , Nafissa Thompson-Spires , National Book Award , Nia Norris , pandemic , Pittsburgh , relationships , religion , Sex , sexuality , short fiction , short stories , Short Story Collection , The Secret Lives of Church Ladies , The South , Toni Morrison , Tyrese Coleman , Visible: Women Writers of Color Voices on Addiction: The Monster’s Matchstick Mistress By Sue William Silverman December 15th, 2020 I want to see myself as a whole person. ...more Tags: addiction , affair , childhood abuse , desire , fathers , fathers and daughters , infidelity , love , marriage , rehab , rehabilitation , Sex , sex addiction , sexual abuse , shame , Sue William Silverman , Voices on Addiction , withdrawal Westward, Onward By Willa Zhang December 14th, 2020 It comes down to this: I feel the need to prove I belong here. ...more Tags: American Southwest , American West. , Arthur’s Pass National Park , Avalanche Peak , California , camping , Chinese , Chinese American , desert , displacement , Fujian , Hiking , immigrants , immigration , Indigenous , los angeles , Manifest Destiny , mojave , Mojave Desert , mythology , Native American , Native Americans , natural world , nature , New Zealand , racial inequality , Racism , San Gabriel Valley , travel , Willa Zhang Imposin...