naked and stunned at the end of the world

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Exploring embodiment and identity, storytelling and art, agency and resistance, and the disruptive potential of chronic illness. Looking for meaning against a backdrop of Instagram incoherency. Wrangling experiences that resist articulation.

About This is Rachel

Fabulist, writer, unruly queer. Chronic illness alchemist, bedbound and killing it. Fed right the fuck up with empire. I’m in my chrysalis era.

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