Rachael Nevins ❌👑

@rachaelnevins

she/her | reader, writer, librarian, long-distance runner, mom, etcetera | working to open knowledge | not going back newsletter on imagination, art, literature, and the restless search for the good life:

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Rachael Nevins ❌👑@rachaelnevins· 9d

folded another 250 zines with friends at tonight’s @bkindivisible.bsky.social general meeting #HandsOffOurVote #HandsOffNYC

A paper bag full of Hands Off Our Vote zines

Rachael Nevins ❌👑@rachaelnevins· 14d

the work of about an hour, with some help from the 14yo, for local distribution #HandsOffNYC #HandsOffOurVote

a set of Hands Off Our Vote zines folded and spread out on a cafe table

Rachael Nevins ❌👑@rachaelnevins· Jul 16

lol

tile showing a perfect game of Hank Green’s smush

Rachael Nevins ❌👑@rachaelnevins· Jun 27

following the boys to the second of two graduations this week, on Thursday 💕👨🏻‍🎓🧑🏻‍🎓💕

the younger boy in his white graduation gown walking with his brother down Ocean Avenue toward Brooklyn College

Rachael Nevins ❌👑@rachaelnevins· Jun 23

after graduation—the first of two this week yet another photo of those two boys of mine, walking in front of me, talking about whatever it is they talk about with each other

Coney Island’s parachute jump against a moody sky. The Steeplechase Pier is wet from a recent rainfall. Two boys, one in a graduation gown, walk side-by-side back toward the boardwalk.

Rachael Nevins ❌👑@rachaelnevins· Jun 18

Why yes I do organize my voting plan around the availability of excellent stickers! 🤩 Vote today & get your sticker before they’re gone!

Knicks-themed sticker that says I voted in the City of New York

Rachael Nevins ❌👑@rachaelnevins· May 16

from Prospect Park to Coney Island! 🏃🏻‍♀️ #BrooklynHalf was questioning life decisions in the last 6K+ but finished strong

a happy runner stands proudly with a medal by the edge of the ocean

Rachael Nevins ❌👑@rachaelnevins· May 15

though it’s been lovely to have the Brooklyn Bridge as the backdrop for my annual photo of my Brooklyn Half bib, pickup at Prospect Park is sooo much better

a hand holding up bib #10778 for the 2026 Brooklyn Half in front of Prospect Park Lake

Rachael Nevins ❌👑@rachaelnevins· May 14

giving it another go, finding it much more enjoyable now that I know what to expect

A hand holding up a copy of The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe, with a cityscape in the background

Rachael Nevins ❌👑@rachaelnevins· Apr 23

wisteria time on the Brighton Line

subway tracks between Cortelyou and Beverley, with blooming wisteria hanging over the graffiti-tagged wall

Rachael Nevins ❌👑@rachaelnevins· Apr 1

spring in the air, felt those I LOVE NEW YAAAWK feelings going over the Manhattan Bridge this morning my love extending to all you April Fools as well as this rusty diamond plated step I set my coffee cup on while adjusting my headphones on my way to the library

black-lidded coffee cup seeming to float over a rusty diamond plated step

Rachael Nevins ❌👑@rachaelnevins· Mar 30

some views from the back of the butterfly garden made by Brooklyn Resisters & @bkindivisible.bsky.social #NoKingsNYC

Seventh Avenue filled with people holding up flowers and signs saying People Power, Ice Melts, Peace Is Power

People holding up flowers and giant monarch butterflies and heading toward Times Square

Rachael Nevins ❌👑@rachaelnevins· Mar 30

at #NoKingsNYC on Saturday afternoon nearly a year since I got my foam Lady Liberty crown for Hands Off NYC

Me holding a No Kings sign and wearing my Lady Liberty crown while walking backward at the back of the butterfly garden made by Brooklyn Resisters and Indivisible Brooklyn

Rachael Nevins ❌👑@rachaelnevins· Mar 30

fleurs seen on my Friday afternoon run chose my route so I could check on the daffodils; the crocuses on the Parade Ground were a happy surprise purple crocuses + the ping of batting practice

purple crocuses on a lawn, the feet of young baseball players on the other side of a chain link fence

Rachael Nevins ❌👑@rachaelnevins· Mar 22

report from my evening run, still there, in fact it looks like more dirt has been piled on top of one end of the heap of filth & old snow in other news, the first daffodils are blooming alongside Flatbush outside of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (no photo of that, though)

filthy old snow piled on the SW corner of Prospect Park

Rachael Nevins ❌👑@rachaelnevins· Mar 14

Prospect Park Lake during my run on Sunday vs. during my run today

Frozen Prospect Park lake, with geese walking on its surface

Blue Prospect Park Lake under a blue sky

Rachael Nevins ❌👑@rachaelnevins· Mar 8

and this afternoon’s 10-miler! flowers everywhere!

Rachael Nevins ❌👑@rachaelnevins· Mar 8

snow, trees, the shadows of trees, seen on a 4-mile midmorning run on Friday 2/27, before heading upstate for a retreat

a snowy tree-covered hill on a sunny day

Rachael Nevins ❌👑@rachaelnevins· Mar 8

photographing the hazy sun, on the morning of Thursday 2/26

Rachael Nevins ❌👑@rachaelnevins· Feb 24

did it! ran an extra mile, in fact, realizing that a run tomorrow is unlikely & also just wanting to spend more time looking at the snowy woods in the park

snowy woods next to the route up Battle Pass Hill

Rachael Nevins ❌👑@rachaelnevins· Feb 8

anyway, a couple photos from few runs since snow got dumped on the city getting out for another one tomorrow, gotta somehow make it happen

Prospect Park Lake as seen from the northwest corner, with a pedestrians ahead sign listing over due to all the snow; photo taken on the afternoon of Sat Jan 31

Icy Prospect Park Lake as seen from the west, also benches, bare trees, and so much snow; photo taken late in the afternoon on Tues Feb 3

Rachael Nevins ❌👑@rachaelnevins· Feb 5

This note I made to myself a week or so ago will remain forever inscrutable to me.

a handwritten note that says 43 arrow math

Rachael Nevins ❌👑@rachaelnevins· Jan 24

Brooklyn ♥️ Minnesota

Me wearing my foam Lady Liberty crown and holding a sign that says BK ♥️ MN while standing next to Ocean Parkway

Rachael Nevins ❌👑@rachaelnevins· Jan 22

today, though a perfect day for a run, reminded me of the glory that will be spring!

Prospect Park Lake as seen from across the southern side of the loop, with light and shadows streaking the pavement, melting snow on the lawn, and several large bare trees

Rachael Nevins ❌👑@rachaelnevins· Jan 11

just me, an old friend & several thousand New Yorkers out this afternoon to say No kings No war No ICE @bkindivisible.bsky.social

me and a friend at the start of today’s anti-war, anti-ICE rally and march in NYC; I’m wearing my usual Lady Liberty crown and a No Kings t-shirt

Rachael Nevins ❌👑@rachaelnevins· Dec 31

one more run in the last hours of the old year pale waxing moon, bright setting sun

An apartment building on the left edge, bare trees on the right, a waxing gibbous moon, very pale in the blue sky

A runner, bare silhouetted trees, and old snow along the edge of the loop in Prospect Park. The low sun shines through the trees.

Rachael Nevins ❌👑@rachaelnevins· Dec 13

here at Good Shepherd Lutheran in Bay Ridge, listening to the drums & folding zines #HandsOffNYC

A set of Hands Off NYC zines, its cover featuring a drawing of a pigeon wearing a Lady Liberty crown and holding a banner saying ICE & troops out

Rachael Nevins ❌👑@rachaelnevins· Nov 27

at the exact spot where we were married ♥️

Brian and me kissing next to a gazebo in the middle of a rose garden in November

Rachael Nevins ❌👑@rachaelnevins· Nov 13

morning view, waiting for the train

the subway tracks from the northern end of the Cortelyou Road Q station, with graffiti and fall foliage visible along the western wall next to the tracks

Rachael Nevins ❌👑@rachaelnevins· Nov 12

vs. me in fall 2025, finding history a little too real, seeking the consolation (??!?) of philosophy instead …