naked and stunned at the end of the world
This is RachelThis publication explores the disruptive, devastating, and revolutionary impact of chronic illness on individuals and the collective. I also nerd out about gender and identity, astrology and tarot, literature, culture, and mindfulness practice.
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Stop myalgic encephalomyelitis I wanna get off: coping with a crash (or trying to)
Today my head is an overfilled weather balloon: helium expanding, neoprene swelling, straining, in the freezing, liminal air where the upper atmosphere kisses the vacuum of space.
This is actually kind of an appropriate analogy: I literal...
Recovery is a Warm Gun
“I am a flow-through of matter, energy, and information.”
-Joanna Macy, from World as Lover, World as Self
Life is so much weirder and wilder than I think it is.
Like something out of an old pulp sci-fi rag, caterpillars dissolve into...
Stories from the long covid crisis
Long covid is an escalating global catastrophe, but it is playing out on the local level. One of the coolest things about local journalism is that it offers an opportunity to tell personal stories in their granular particularity, grounding...
The unbearable lightness of moving the microwave: radical acceptance is a moving target
My bed has largely defined the boundaries of my world since July of 2023, when a spinal surgery triggered a chronic illness “crash” that landed me on my back for 18 months. Now, I am entering a new phase of my illness—stepping out of the ca...
The day the Earth stood still
The Earth doesn’t stand still for anyone
It’s July 4, 2025, early morning, and I’m sitting at the threshold, at the place where the tiny foyer outside my apartment opens up into the little flat rooftop outside. The neighborhood hasn’t...
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Fabulist, artist, unruly queer. Chronic illness alchemist, mostly homebound, still killing it. Fed right the fuck up with empire. I’m in my chrysalis era.
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