Rachel Hands
@rachelhands.com
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Rachel Hands
@rachelhands.com
· Nov 30
Leading in Times of Crisis: Holding & Sharing Power and Reducing Harm
In the face of big challenges, we don't have time to be stuck—so it's time to be brave! Whether you set out to be a leader or it just kind of happened to...
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hiya new folks! this account is for weird art/books/music enthusiasm, hyping friendship and my friends, and good light.
also I write about work, power, and equity. obligatory “you can buy some of that writing here” link:
also I write about work, power, and equity. obligatory “you can buy some of that writing here” link:
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Her community rallied so fast and so diligently. This is a victory to uphold and celebrate. Reminds everyone that it's worth fighting back.
An immigration court dropped its case against Turkish graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk, a little less than a year after federal agents arrested her on a street near Tufts University
Immigration Court Drops Case Against Tufts Student Rumeysa Ozturk
The Turkish national had been arrested by plainclothes federal officers outside her apartment.
on.wsj.com
February 10, 2026 at 1:30 AM
Her community rallied so fast and so diligently. This is a victory to uphold and celebrate. Reminds everyone that it's worth fighting back.
you know what, let me log off and make something.
Another resistance quilt finished this week. The eye is my own design, the letters are a fpp pattern by QuiltByNight, the rounded corners and black binding are meant to resemble the phones we the people are using to document the horrors and disprove the government’s lies about what they are doing.
February 10, 2026 at 1:02 AM
you know what, let me log off and make something.
bought some art from @allisonanne.com to help with a rent fundraiser, now i have more art and one of allison’s neighbors gets a little more security, that’s pretty neat
February 10, 2026 at 12:00 AM
bought some art from @allisonanne.com to help with a rent fundraiser, now i have more art and one of allison’s neighbors gets a little more security, that’s pretty neat
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okay, I’m sad and tired but there is a lane I can drive in.
if you are 1) in charge of people at work and 2) trying to figure out how to get them through “can you fucking believe we have to do our little emails in February 2026,” I wrote a thing for you.
microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/zine...
if you are 1) in charge of people at work and 2) trying to figure out how to get them through “can you fucking believe we have to do our little emails in February 2026,” I wrote a thing for you.
microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/zine...
Leading in Times of Crisis: Holding & Sharing Power and Reducing Harm
In the face of big challenges, we don't have time to be stuck—so it's time to be brave! Whether you set out to be a leader or it just kind of happened to...
microcosmpublishing.com
February 2, 2026 at 12:27 AM
okay, I’m sad and tired but there is a lane I can drive in.
if you are 1) in charge of people at work and 2) trying to figure out how to get them through “can you fucking believe we have to do our little emails in February 2026,” I wrote a thing for you.
microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/zine...
if you are 1) in charge of people at work and 2) trying to figure out how to get them through “can you fucking believe we have to do our little emails in February 2026,” I wrote a thing for you.
microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/zine...
bookshelf guardian is prepared to defend her territory
February 9, 2026 at 11:19 PM
bookshelf guardian is prepared to defend her territory
calculation hive, we have work to do
A story about a woman unstuck from time and her husband who is not. It's like Groundhog Day (the movie) if it were a spare, Scandinavian novel about the unbridgeable gulf that keeps any two people, no matter how in love, from ever truly knowing one another.
On the Calculation of Volume (Book 1)
Utterly riveting, Solvej Balle’s On the Calculation of Volume (Book I) is the grand opening of her speculative fiction septology, winner of the 2022 Nordic Council Literature Prize (Scandinavia’s most important literary award) for being “a masterpiece of its time.”
portersquarebooks.com
February 9, 2026 at 9:39 PM
calculation hive, we have work to do
dear every elected official of every party: if you are more afraid of seeming like a radical by abolishing ICE than you are of ICE’s explicit plans to pack all these warehouses full of the people they kidnap, I don’t know what to say to you at this point.
In the last month ICE has bought warehouses in:
- Hagerstown, MD: $102 million
- Surprise, AZ: $70 million
- Hamburg, PA: $87 million
- Tremont, PA: $120 million
- San Antonio, TX: $82 million
- El Paso, TX: $123 million
- Social Circle, GA: price unknown
This is unprecedented.
- Hagerstown, MD: $102 million
- Surprise, AZ: $70 million
- Hamburg, PA: $87 million
- Tremont, PA: $120 million
- San Antonio, TX: $82 million
- El Paso, TX: $123 million
- Social Circle, GA: price unknown
This is unprecedented.
February 9, 2026 at 7:34 PM
dear every elected official of every party: if you are more afraid of seeming like a radical by abolishing ICE than you are of ICE’s explicit plans to pack all these warehouses full of the people they kidnap, I don’t know what to say to you at this point.
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this is still the situation in msp if you want to give $5 (or more!) to an org doing mutual aid on the ground here, and maybe win a winsome tshirt in the process (link to enter) forms.gle/Wv5nwAnyfHny...
February 9, 2026 at 6:42 PM
this is still the situation in msp if you want to give $5 (or more!) to an org doing mutual aid on the ground here, and maybe win a winsome tshirt in the process (link to enter) forms.gle/Wv5nwAnyfHny...
my fanciest friend taught me to put toasted walnuts on squash soup and it is extremely annoying how much it makes a difference
February 8, 2026 at 11:20 PM
my fanciest friend taught me to put toasted walnuts on squash soup and it is extremely annoying how much it makes a difference
me last week: maybe I will cook things that aren’t soup now that my Soup Project is over
me today, counting on my fingers: ok, the vegan curried squash soup goes first, then chicken broth, then tomorrow we do the green chile chicken noodle
me today, counting on my fingers: ok, the vegan curried squash soup goes first, then chicken broth, then tomorrow we do the green chile chicken noodle
February 8, 2026 at 9:54 PM
me last week: maybe I will cook things that aren’t soup now that my Soup Project is over
me today, counting on my fingers: ok, the vegan curried squash soup goes first, then chicken broth, then tomorrow we do the green chile chicken noodle
me today, counting on my fingers: ok, the vegan curried squash soup goes first, then chicken broth, then tomorrow we do the green chile chicken noodle
ok the last show is underway, nobody who’d be spoiled is reading this, let’s discuss
reference in case you are not steeped in Weird Opera: www.operaphila.org/whats-on/252...
reference in case you are not steeped in Weird Opera: www.operaphila.org/whats-on/252...
February 8, 2026 at 7:50 PM
ok the last show is underway, nobody who’d be spoiled is reading this, let’s discuss
reference in case you are not steeped in Weird Opera: www.operaphila.org/whats-on/252...
reference in case you are not steeped in Weird Opera: www.operaphila.org/whats-on/252...
since some of you might still be going to the last show I will save my Thoughts about this until tomorrow, except for the thought that is: I am happy I took a train to Philly and back for this
February 8, 2026 at 12:24 AM
since some of you might still be going to the last show I will save my Thoughts about this until tomorrow, except for the thought that is: I am happy I took a train to Philly and back for this
#ShowMeYourKnits alphabet challenge!
Quote this post with a knit that starts with the next letter of the alphabet. F should be fun.
E: Everwood Shawl by Meghan Huber, in Cashmere People Yarns cashgora
Quote this post with a knit that starts with the next letter of the alphabet. F should be fun.
E: Everwood Shawl by Meghan Huber, in Cashmere People Yarns cashgora
February 7, 2026 at 1:56 PM
#ShowMeYourKnits alphabet challenge!
Quote this post with a knit that starts with the next letter of the alphabet. F should be fun.
E: Everwood Shawl by Meghan Huber, in Cashmere People Yarns cashgora
Quote this post with a knit that starts with the next letter of the alphabet. F should be fun.
E: Everwood Shawl by Meghan Huber, in Cashmere People Yarns cashgora
a successful quiet car day and another reason to read every word CRG writes
portersquarebooks.com/book/9781644...
portersquarebooks.com/book/9781644...
February 6, 2026 at 8:37 PM
a successful quiet car day and another reason to read every word CRG writes
portersquarebooks.com/book/9781644...
portersquarebooks.com/book/9781644...
good work, team
And Maggie Nelson moves on to the next round!!!!
Nelson is the kind of writer who could make any topic interesting, but this subject perfectly showcases her talents. In this short, gorgeous prose poem, medical appointments are interspersed with dreams, grief, COVID-era alienation, and a strained marriage. Funny yet harrowing.
February 6, 2026 at 4:29 PM
good work, team
sitting patiently with hands folded for whatever comes out of Mathias Énard’s residency at the Prado
I spent a couple of hours walking around the Prado with Mathias Énard observer.co.uk/culture/book...
Mathias Énard: ‘I write with a bastard tongue’
The Prix Goncourt-winning novelist on the myths of the Middle East, the horrors and wonders of history, and life at a Madrid museum
observer.co.uk
February 6, 2026 at 12:55 PM
sitting patiently with hands folded for whatever comes out of Mathias Énard’s residency at the Prado
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No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
www.nature.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:09 AM
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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hey y'all it's bandcamp Friday! been a while since I've reminded you all that I made a feed for bandcamp links posted by ambient and drone artists... check it and please share
February 6, 2026 at 12:23 PM
hey y'all it's bandcamp Friday! been a while since I've reminded you all that I made a feed for bandcamp links posted by ambient and drone artists... check it and please share
dude just plainly loves the job and knows how to commit to a bit. a delight.
Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.”
Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.
Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.
February 6, 2026 at 4:31 AM
dude just plainly loves the job and knows how to commit to a bit. a delight.
one day I will figure out how to take a day off without being on a train all day. that day is not tomorrow but it doesn’t need to be.
the yellow spine theme is either a coincidence or a message from me to me that I don’t understand.
the yellow spine theme is either a coincidence or a message from me to me that I don’t understand.
February 6, 2026 at 2:02 AM
one day I will figure out how to take a day off without being on a train all day. that day is not tomorrow but it doesn’t need to be.
the yellow spine theme is either a coincidence or a message from me to me that I don’t understand.
the yellow spine theme is either a coincidence or a message from me to me that I don’t understand.
hey do me a favor and fave this quoted post, don’t worry about why. it’s fine
Nelson is the kind of writer who could make any topic interesting, but this subject perfectly showcases her talents. In this short, gorgeous prose poem, medical appointments are interspersed with dreams, grief, COVID-era alienation, and a strained marriage. Funny yet harrowing.
Pathemata: Or the Story of My Mouth by Maggie Nelson
Pathemata, Or, The Story of My Mouth is an experiment in interiority written in the pandemic studio. Something of a companion piece to 2009's Bluets, Pathemata merges a pain diary chronicling a decade of jaw pain with dreams and dailies, eventually blurring the lines between embodied, unconscious, and everyday life.
portersquarebooks.com
February 6, 2026 at 12:22 AM
hey do me a favor and fave this quoted post, don’t worry about why. it’s fine
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#ICE grabs somebody right out of their car in #Roslindale Square
www.universalhub.com/2026/ice-gra...
#Boston
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#Boston
February 5, 2026 at 6:32 PM
#ICE grabs somebody right out of their car in #Roslindale Square
www.universalhub.com/2026/ice-gra...
#Boston
www.universalhub.com/2026/ice-gra...
#Boston
“We Don’t Need to Tend This Garden, They’re Wildflowers” (Darian Donovan Thomas for Adam Tendler) is up there for me right now
(category is favorite songs with 6+ words in the title)
(category is favorite songs with 6+ words in the title)
February 5, 2026 at 2:08 PM
“We Don’t Need to Tend This Garden, They’re Wildflowers” (Darian Donovan Thomas for Adam Tendler) is up there for me right now
(category is favorite songs with 6+ words in the title)
(category is favorite songs with 6+ words in the title)