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Rachel Toliver

Questions for Now

To 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?

2 min readMar 24, 2020

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Rachel Toliver

I 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…

1 min readMar 21, 2020

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Rachel Toliver

October

We 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…

2 min readJan 15, 2020

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Rachel Toliver

The Lives Erased by Gentrification

When I moved to Franklinton, I told myself I wasn’t displacing anyone

13 min readAug 27, 2018

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Rachel Toliver

Dispatch From the Death Zone

Economic segregation in America's heartland

12 min readAug 3, 2018

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Rachel Toliver

About the Flag

The bus is slow, rerouted, going down the wrong street. This would’ve been annoying, before. It’s Friday; the space that would’ve once…

6 min readNov 17, 2016

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Rachel Toliver

Certain 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…

6 min readOct 8, 2016

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Rachel Toliver

Empathy Is A Luxury Item

On 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…

8 min readAug 4, 2016

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Rachel Toliver

On 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…

6 min readJul 8, 2016

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Rachel Toliver

On Telling the Internet that I Prefer Not Talking to Strange Men

Some thoughts, in no particular order.

6 min readJul 5, 2016

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Rachel Toliver

Rachel Toliver

Thinking about cities, cats, public and domestic spaces. New Republic/ Brevity/ TriQuarterly/ American Literary Review. https://www.racheltoliver.com

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