Men With Women; Women With Men: Fight Club, 15 Years Later
While I know a lot of men from my generation who love Fight Club, it was always the girls with the posters featuring Brad Pitt, half-naked and bloody. The fights throughout the film are all vaguely...
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The Rumpus Interview with Women in Clothes
After noticing her boyfriend’s great care in selecting his clothing, the inherently inquisitive Sheila Heti (How Should a Person Be?) reached out to The Believer colleague and friend Heidi Julavits...
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Something’s Wrong with Me
The earliest lexicon I remember having available to use when defining myself is a medical dictionary of defect and attempted repair: ruptured amniotic sac, neurological disorder, increased spasticity,...
View ArticleThe Saturday Rumpus Essay: Falling For The Femme Fatale
Before I was a goth, I was a nerd.I imagine this is a dual transition a lot of young men went through before “geek” was “chic”: when you don’t have particularly good social skills, junior high and high...
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: To Be a Brony
The 1980s. The decade that gave me ten years of bad perms and MC Hammer pants also taught me to fear the secret lives of men. As kids we were warned to avoid a host of stranger dangers—windowless vans,...
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The Rumpus Interview with Pussy Noir
In a small, dingy closet of a literal and figurative underground bar in DC, I have the privilege of watching Jason Barnes transform into Pussy Noir. He uses his compact mirror to apply dark and light...
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Kill Bob
When I was 15 years old, I came to associate evil with a jean-jacketed, gray-haired, man-monster. His name was Bob and although his rapes and murders of young women were restricted to the all-too-real...
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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...
View ArticleWoman-Size: Female Image-Making and PJ Harvey
Her mouth, like her eyes, is a little too large for her face. When she leans into the video camera, it looks like she could swallow the screen. When she wears red lipstick, she reminds me of when I...
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Female Friendships and Online Literary Sexism
I read Kim Brooks’s recent essay in New York Magazine, “I’m Having A Friendship Affair,” describing her despair at the death of one of her female friendships, just days after one of my closest friends,...
View ArticleThis Week in Short Fiction
In a darkly humorous new story at n+1, Jen George questions the qualifications of being “adult,” gives thirty-somethings across the world nightmares, and packs in plenty of social criticism while she’s...
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Winning the Game of Thrones Like a Girl
“When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground.”–Cersei Lannister Now that the ships have set sail, the wildfire has settled, and winter has come, it’s time to see...
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The Rumpus Interview with Arielle Greenberg
Arielle Greenberg is the author of several collections of poetry and chapbooks, including Slice, Given, and My Kafka Century, and the hybrid genre nonfiction book Home/Birth: A Polemic, a collaboration...
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FUNNY WOMEN #142: How to Be a Female Boss
Dress the part.Becoming a manager doesn’t mean you have to abandon your womanly appearance, but if you want to be seen as an authority, then balance out the feminine pieces in your wardrobe with more...
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FUNNY WOMEN #143: Feminism, the Quiz
“Everyone always says, are you a feminist? And I don’t think that I am. I don’t like labels. I do what makes me happy and I want women to be confident and I’m so supportive of women… But I’m not the...
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Is Gender F***ing with Our Fantasies?
Orlando Bloom is my first celebrity love. I’ll use the present tense because, though it’s been over a decade since I fell for him, when his name pops up in celebrity news, an abashedly smitten...
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Kahlo vs. Kardashian: The Subversive Potential of the Female Self-Portrait
The first record of the self-portrait dates back to the 1490s, according to James Hall, the author of Self Portrait: A Cultural History, and it was with the self-portrait that a distinctive veneration...
View ArticleZoë Ruiz in Conversation with Micah Perks
Don’t miss this interview at The Believer between former Rumpus Managing Editor Zoë Ruiz and contributor Micah Perks on Perks’s new novel, What Becomes Us—a story told from the point of view of twin...
View ArticleWomen and Instrumentality
She hasn’t been shown any other options. But can she invent a new option?Over at Bookforum, Anelise Chen sits down with Alexandra Kleeman, author of the new collection Intimations, to talk about...
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The Rumpus Interview with Abigail Ulman
I am so tired of hearing fiction compared to HBO’s Girls. First of all, it’s a television show—are there seriously no books you can think of to compare it to? Second of all, it seems the publisher...
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