Marissa Korbel
The Rumpus
Portland, OR, United States
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Past articles by Marissa:
The Thread: Hairy Mary Full of Grace
What a strange depiction. Mary, mother of Jesus, covered in hair. → Read More
Hearing a Novella/Reading an Album: Talking with Katharine Coldiron
Katharine Coldiron discusses her forthcoming novella, CEREMONIALS. → Read More
The Thread: Ghosts at the Door
Ghosts, like women as people, are just a theory. → Read More
Celebrating Queer Portland: A Conversation with Claire Rudy Foster
Foster discusses their new story collection, SHINE OF THE EVER. → Read More
Why We Cry When We’re Angry
I feel like an electric line, snapped from the pole by the wind. A live wire. I spark against the ground. → Read More
On Monsters: In Darkness and in Light
This month, take a deep dive into The Rumpus’s psyche. → Read More
The Thread: Art Monsters
I don’t want to be a martyr or a monster. I want to be human. → Read More
The Thread: On Justice
I can’t speak, but I can scream. → Read More
Unclenching the Body: A Conversation with Jennifer Pastiloff
Jennifer Pastiloff discusses her first book, ON BEING HUMAN. → Read More
The Thread: The Stories We’ve Been Told
It’s just their story, and we don’t have to believe a word of it. → Read More
The Thread: The Unthought Known
The whole word suddenly fell apart, both as a concept, and as a sound. → Read More
The Thread: Down Girl
Misogyny reminds us of our place: down girl. → Read More
The Thread: Grown-Up Little Girls
I was a little girl and all I wanted was to grow up. → Read More
Unspeakable Mothers: Talking with Sophia Shalmiyev
Sophia Shalmiyev discusses her debut memoir, MOTHER WINTER. → Read More
The Internal and the External: A Conversation with Wendy Willis
Wendy Willis discusses her new essay collection, THESE ARE STRANGE TIMES, MY DEAR. → Read More
The Thread: Outside the Gaze
This is the story I needed as a young girl; this is the story we all need. → Read More
The Thread: Forged in Fire
To control your story is to own your reality. → Read More
The Thread: Dress Codes
How much of gender and identity is about dressing up as the part? → Read More
The Thread: All in My Head
I am in a war, and some of the toughest battles happen in my head. → Read More
The Thread: Near Miss
I’ve seen them in the post office, or stapled to utility poles, fluttering in the evening breeze. → Read More