Rachel🤓

Erstwhile anthropologist. Perennial student. Submerged writer. Dilettante.
Nostalgia's my jam; sci-fi my peanut butter. Staunch defender of whimsy.

[Rachel🤓 @SeriousRachel]

A reminder, for myself as much as anyone:
Yes, there is more horror than we can comprehend.
And still there is joy.
And beauty.
And hope.

[Katie Gee Salisbury @ksalisbury]

My latest on the incomparable Anna May Wong

[Bike East Bay @BikeEastBay]

One more sleep until Bike to Wherever Day! Are you ready?! Find your local energizer station and snag your free #BTWD bag, or join as a Bike East Bay member for a BIGGER bag at select stations 3-6pm! All the details: https://t.co/6YPZsSudZB

[The Leadership Conference @civilrightsorg]

“I am a survivor of the Tulsa race massacre. Two weeks ago, I celebrated my 107th birthday. Today, I’m visiting Washington, DC for the first time in my life. I’m here seeking justice, and I'm asking my country to acknowledge what happened in Tulsa in 1921.”

–Viola Fletcher

[Rachel🤓 @SeriousRachel]

@TheJarky @USTheatreCo @___PitchPerfect @cinemario Like you two don't always look sharp. You're certainly never dull.

[The Unusual Suspects @USTheatreCo]

Arts education is not a luxury, it's a necessity.

[Rachel🤓 @SeriousRachel]

"Many high-income countries, because we have people who are very clever, have tried to use math to outsmart a problem that is basically common sense," Sridhar says. "More infections are bad, & the way to stop them is to get vaccinated. It's that simple."
https://t.co/Q4ZXzJTTmW

[Eric Hynes @eshynes]

There's acting, and then there's the laser-focused lust Charles Grodin shines on Miss Piggy in THE GREAT MUPPET CAPER. One of a kind.

[Rachel🤓 @SeriousRachel]

@XochitlJulisa @onbeing Yay!!!

[The On Being Project @onbeing]

A poem about history that offers a hopeful practice: rather than vengeance for the dead, sustenance to the living. (Special thanks to @XochitlJulisa for permission to use her poem in this episode of #PoetryUnbound with @duanalla.)

https://t.co/6MYzNyXVDY

[Expanding the Bench @ExpandTheBench]

The @splcenter is seeking a Director of Learning and Evaluation. Ideal candidates will be #evaluators who practice culturally responsive and equitable evaluation (#CREE) and build capacity for staff.

Learn more about this #jobopening on our site: https://t.co/8WDYpEsL0z

[Rachel🤓 @SeriousRachel]

Annnnd I've had random measures of recitative looping in my head all weekend: "Go home, 'ponine, go home-youre in the waaaay!"

[Rachel🤓 @SeriousRachel]

"Park-n-bark" might be my favorite musical shorthand. Thank you @jocelyngeddie for reminding me of that phrase in the IHIBILI Les Miz episode. I nearly snorted out my thin mint.

[Camara Jones @CamaraJones]

I fear that we are reverting to viewing COVID-19 as an INDIVIDUAL MEDICAL CARE issue

instead of understanding that it remains a COLLECTIVE PUBLIC HEALTH issue

and demands continued comprehensive public health responses.

Our narrow focus on the individual continues to harm us.

[Rachel🤓 @SeriousRachel]

Been thinking about Wandavision and how one of its messages is that the grief of one white woman somehow outweighs/justifies the trauma she inflicts on an entire town of people.

[@sirjacobsidney.bsky.social @SirJacobSidney]

Join me @CASA0101 Wednesday in support of @sb805ca!

This first-of-its-kind, "trickle up" arts funding would change the game for small theatre, protecting professional artists by providing payroll infrastructure to small organizations.

Learn more at https://t.co/WD1tmccch3!

[Rachel🤓 @SeriousRachel]

Such a dynamic duo.

[The Unusual Suspects @USTheatreCo]

We recently got a sneak peek at what the fabulous Martini & Olive will be preparing for this year's #UnUSualCreateAThon and we can't wait! We hope this look back to their amazing work from last year will inspire your 2021 creations.

https://t.co/rwnEvwXyyk

[Rachel🤓 @SeriousRachel]

Good to think.

"To speak about attention as a resource is to grant and even encourage its commodification."

https://t.co/18d8jOm5vN

[Rachel🤓 @SeriousRachel]

Too many excellent points to choose just one representative quote:
https://t.co/Y9sgxDKRWs

[Rachel🤓 @SeriousRachel]

Somehow that half-pint of ice cream didnt get rid of my headache.

[Rachel🤓 @SeriousRachel]

@fitrogers Oh shoot, apparently he-who-is-my-husband says I was supposed to say "best boss I ever had."

[Rachel🤓 @SeriousRachel]

@fitrogers By marriage. So friend-in-law?