Rachel ToliverQuestions for NowTo whom do I sing happy birthday, as I’m washing my hands? To whom do I pray, as I’m washing my hands, and at all other times?Mar 24, 2020Mar 24, 2020
Rachel ToliverI Check the News for a Minute that Is Not a Minute, My Bed Unmade, My Cat Unfed, My Raisin Bran…In the laptop a field, in the field all these pixels. On the track-pad an inching of fingers. What to check, check everything. Check, but…Mar 21, 2020Mar 21, 2020
Rachel ToliverOctoberWe rode our bikes out to the farm stand — a farm stand with ice cream, with an ice cream window, and we got the peanut butter, and we got…Jan 15, 2020Jan 15, 2020
Rachel ToliverThe Lives Erased by GentrificationWhen I moved to Franklinton, I told myself I wasn’t displacing anyoneAug 27, 20184Aug 27, 20184
Rachel ToliverDispatch From the Death ZoneEconomic segregation in America's heartlandAug 3, 20186Aug 3, 20186
Rachel ToliverAbout the FlagThe bus is slow, rerouted, going down the wrong street. This would’ve been annoying, before. It’s Friday; the space that would’ve once…Nov 17, 2016Nov 17, 2016
Rachel ToliverCertain Areas, Certain Bodies: Donald Trump and the Rhetoric of Intimidation“You’ve got to go out, and you’ve got to get your friends, and you’ve got to get everybody you know, and you gotta watch the polling…Oct 8, 2016Oct 8, 2016
Rachel ToliverEmpathy Is A Luxury ItemOn the second Wednesday it’s halfway decent Kung Pao Chicken at the cafeteria’s Global Café. Then, at 8:00, it’s time for the Politics…Aug 4, 2016Aug 4, 2016
Rachel ToliverOn Whiteness, James Baldwin, and Trying to Heed[White people] are, in effect, still trapped in a history which they do not understand; and until they understand it, they cannot be…Jul 8, 2016Jul 8, 2016
Rachel ToliverOn Telling the Internet that I Prefer Not Talking to Strange MenSome thoughts, in no particular order.Jul 5, 201614Jul 5, 201614