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Rachel DL
@racheldl.bsky.social
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Disabled cartoonist, journalist, and youth advocate based in Madison, WI. Comics and writing in The Washington Post, The Nib, Disability Visibility, Tone. #endyouthhomelessness
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Website: https://www.racheldl.com/
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18-yr-old Rachel wants to enjoy college like her peers–seemingly housing & food secure, with family. Instead, an ex-homeless runaway youth, Rachel is thrust into adulthood on her own. To survive, she must rebuild community & confront a dark secret at the root of her new independence. #DVpit #GN #DIS
Two graphic novel pages, representing rachel scribbling in a notebook a cartoon about food insecurity rachel at university health services, the doctor inquiring why she doesn't have health insurance
October 8, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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There's things I can't say on social media, but I'm just going to leave it at this poem I wrote a few years ago in honor of Bill Peace and Carrie Ann Lucas, who were both murdered by their insurance companies. Full text on @anmlymag.bsky.social
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Step Therapy -in honor of Carrie Ann Lucas and Dr. Bill Peace Rachel Litchman Step Therapy -in honor of Carrie Ann Lucas and Dr. Bill Peace The way you play this game is simple: there is a boy on a skateboard and the boy has four lives. The goal of the game is to get the boy on the skateboard to the end of the racecourse. The racecourse is not an oval or a circle; it’s a city. Miles translate into a pixels. The pixels may be counted. The counting, of course, is not a requirement, but a strategy:
December 8, 2024 at 8:55 PM
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Hello, I am new to this account 👋 I am a queer disabled cartoonist with POTS/EDS and crippling chronic fatigue. I’m finding it very overwhelming to juggle all the new social medias, but I am here for the time being because Twitter sucks. My website is racheldl.com!
An image of a comic I was working on recently about my hip surgery last summer.
November 7, 2023 at 1:11 AM