Boycotting for Balance
There’s been a couple articles as of late suggesting we change the way we deal with social inequity—by pointedly not participating in its fulfillment. Instead of setting our sights on the people...
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Like a Rock
This past January 1st I watched as my friend jumped into the freezing Atlantic Ocean at Coney Island with all of her clothes on.This was the annual Polar Bear Swim. You could either pay $20 and go in...
View ArticleWriters’ Influences Skew Male
Independent Irish publisher Tramp Press requests that writers submitting manuscripts list their influences. Co-founder Sarah Davis-Goff had a suspicion that she was only seeing male names among the...
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Queen of Decay
There’s something about watching a beautiful woman self-destruct that we can’t turn away from. Asif Kapadia’s new documentary, Amy, that follows Amy Winehouse from age 14 until her death at 27 in 2011,...
View ArticleBending Gender to Make a Sale
The process of selling writing can do funny things to people, like the male authors writing under female pseudonyms. Catherine Nichols went the other way, taking on a male persona to sell her novel:I...
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Informing Form
Now that I’m older, I’ve really begun to realize that I’m really proud that my body has developed for a purpose and not just to be looked at.–Ronda Rousey, UFC Women’s Bantamweight ChampionBefore...
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A Brief History of Pandering
Claire Vaye Watkins’s essay “On Pandering,” about how much her writing has been influenced by a desire for the approval of the “white male lit establishment,” caused such a frenzy that it crashed Tin...
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FUNNY WOMEN #134: We Want to Make Your Feminist Action Thriller into a...
Dear Ms. Murphy,We here at Hollywood loved your innovative feminist screenplay and believe you may truly be the voice of a generation or wave. You are honest and unflinching in your vision and...
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Iben Mondrup and Kerri Pierce
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Iben Mondrup and Kerri Pierce about the recently released translation of Justine, Mondrup’s 2012 Danish novel about a young artist and the world of art in Denmark,...
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The Rumpus Interview with Lauren Elkin
Lauren Elkin is a writer, translator, critic, academic, and incurable urban wanderer, with an impressive string of past addresses spanning three continents. She is inspiringly prolific, having...
View ArticleTrust Us When We’re Sick: Maya Dusenbery’s Doing Harm
“The womb is the origin of all diseases,” reads a Hippocratic medical text from 5th century BC. In that time, hysteria, from the Greek word for uterus, was to blame for common inconveniences such a...
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Being Human: A Conversation with Porochista Khakpour
The first time I ever heard of Porochista Khakpour was when I stumbled upon her GoFundMe page in 2012. At the time, the author had just been diagnosed with late-stage Lyme disease and had, she wrote,...
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The Violence of Women: Talking with Amber Tamblyn
Amber Tamblyn’s new book Any Man imagines a vicious upside down world, where men are preyed upon by a female serial rapist. But the book transcends the gimmick of the experiment and digs deeper into...
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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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This Is Literary: A Conversation with Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Taffy Brodesser-Akner was a prolific freelance and contributing writer before joining The New York Times as a staff writer in 2017. She is most famous for her celebrity profiles, several of which have...
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FUNNY WOMEN: How to Write the Perfect Fantasy Novel
Could you be the next to write the perfect novel that’s full of elves, magic, and swashbuckling danger? Consider this manual your sword in the stone, your magical amulet, your sign from the Old Gods...
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