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BitchCraft: Endings and Finishings
I’m obsessive. I like to knit a lot. I go through cycles. I binge knit when I do. The knitting group I go to looks at the skirt I’m making on skinny little needles and asks how long it will take me....
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Social media is a cruel machine, propelled by our desire to keep up appearances and affirmed by a strange, voyeuristic capital of likes and favorites. While Facebook can at times feel like a digital...
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The Rumpus Late Nite Poetry Show #6: Oliver de la Paz
Oliver de la Paz is the author of four collections of poetry: Names Above Houses, Furious Lullaby, Requiem for the Orchard, and the recently published Post Subject: A Fable. He co-edited A Face to Meet...
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Wild Things
My daughters and I walk home from the park, crows warbling, bugs zipping, men spitting where they lay cement. There must be rabbits here, and they must be hiding between blades of grass. I tell my...
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The Rumpus Interview with Jenny Lawson
Jenny Lawson found Internet fame in small-town Texas. The day “The Bloggess,” was born, people felt they had a safe and relatable place to go on the Internet. Her quirky stories vary from hilarious...
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Ian Svenonius’s “Principles of Modernism”
Is it okay if we talk about something that’s not quite an object? As I started thinking about what I need, especially when I go on tour, the most essential thing is actually a kind of worldview, a...
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Sound & Vision: Arthur Fournier
Welcome back to Sound & Vision, the Rumpus profile series that spotlights the creative talents of those working behind the scenes in the music industry. What can we learn from the ephemera that...
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Guns or No Guns: Mental Health Crisis in Schools
In high school I was stalked by an ex-boyfriend who was six foot two and had just suffered two traumas: his abusive, alcoholic father suddenly died of a heart attack, and then a close friend was...
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Compulsion”
When you fill a glass with water, wait eleven seconds before holding your cup under the flow. This frees poison from the pipes. If you forget and time slips to twelve seconds or thirteen, wait until...
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Smoke Screen
At twelve years old, I’m convinced that I’ve elucidated the latest enigma that has crept up on me: I have gradually stopped eating, because food, inexplicably, revolts me. I like to be in control, and...
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Our Madness: Talking with Sarah Fawn Montgomery
Medical science versus personal experience, wellness versus illness, genetics versus environment, free will versus determinism—these are a few of the binaries Sarah Fawn Montgomery dismantles in her...
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My Dream about Loving White
I have a thing for white guys. I blame White Jesus. Jesus was extra white when I was a young black Seventh-Day Adventist girl going to church every Saturday. We were one of two black families there....
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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...
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Drawing in Circles
I’ve been drawing mazes for about three years. A maze is a complicated story, because the audience knows most of its statements will be lies. A good maze makes the truth look like a lie. A good maze...
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I Am the Ignition
The rain beat metronomically on the roof of my mother’s Palm Beach home. It was mid-July of 2015, some weeks after my husband had disappeared from a South Florida psych ward after the expiration of a...
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On Beloveds, Birds, and the Expansiveness of Space: Talking with Paige Lewis
When I first met Paige Lewis, they gave me a Pokémon card. Now forever armed with Machop, I keep him in my journal in case my writing muscles aren’t being properly flexed. Lewis running around with...
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Embracing the Grotesque: Talking with Lisa Hanawalt
I Want You begins with Lisa Hanawalt drawn as a young bird in her twenties, crouched on a chair at her desk, sketching away. As she ages, her computer and telephone become more technologically...
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Some of the Places I Am Stuck
The Idea That I Have Is that when you’ve been in the same place for a long time, you stick there. Listen: Picture your park. Everyone has one. You went on the swings there, didn’t you? You squatted in...
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The Big, Mangy One
It started up again with something innocuous: An extra pair of fuzzy slippers under my side of the bed in case the world ended at midnight. Each summer the California skies turn the color of a rusted...
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