Rachel Hands

@rachelhands

contains work, tech, books, good light, weird art and music. also sometimes cats. she/her. 🖤🩶🤍💜. opinions mine. mostly-work writing at the link: rachelhands.com

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Rachel Hands@rachelhands· 28d

this is out today (my preorder came in early) - it’s not necessarily going to be The Frame for me, but I have been chewing for a couple weeks on what it has to say about how power operates at work/across bodies, and how folks might come to believe that power structures could be otherwise.

The Sexuality of Care: On Nursing, Kink, and a Future Without Hospitals by M. K. Thekkumkattil

Rachel Hands@rachelhands· 28d

weird light update

the sky is gray and the sun is a bright pink-red dot. brutalist subway station in the foreground. seems bad tbh.

Rachel Hands@rachelhands· 28d

one A Lot Going On book that I think more people should know about is Sophia Terazawa’s Tetra Nova (some things going on include a big fractured family saga, migration, a tiny panda, Tetris): portersquarebooks.com/book/9781646...

cover of Tetra Nova, a big square book with teal letters on a light pink background. a sort of black comet looking thing streaks across the letters with a white line anchoring it somewhere, throwing a darker pink shadow behind the title text

the back copy of the book just says “TETRA NOVA FEATURES DANCING RACCOONS.”

Rachel Hands@rachelhands· Jul 13

yes, well

cat sleeping face down with her ears resting on the edge of her bed. a shelf of books and a foam roller are behind her, not that she cares

Rachel Hands@rachelhands· Jul 12

I considered adjusting the lighting on this to bring out the purple and orange of the can but that seemed like a bridge too far

a can of beer called “Stardust” styled after David Bowie, purple with an orange lightning bolt and white text, and a copy of Luis Othoniel Rosa’s ANIMAL SPIRAL, translated by Katie Marta, the cover of which is purple with orange and white text, and has a mass of orange and white striped tangled worm-looking shapes

Rachel Hands@rachelhands· Jul 11

better view of the star of the show

same bouquet but from above, giving a better sense of the weird celosia texture

Rachel Hands@rachelhands· Jul 11

farmers market flower update

bouquet of bright flowers including an orange celosia, the one that looks like a little fuzzy brain

Rachel Hands@rachelhands· Jul 11

good light update

sunrise with bright oranges and pinks in the distance and dusty purple-gray clouds in the foreground

Rachel Hands@rachelhands· Jul 10

face I’m submitting for my bluesky verification

a sculpture by Brazilian artist Maria Martins called “Impossible, III” from 1946. two figures with spiky venus flytrap looking faces sit facing each other in what might be an embrace or might be a battle to the death, likely both

Rachel Hands@rachelhands· Jul 8

AHEM I have been given permission to share the cover with y’all. <wife* guy* pose>

cover for CAT LADY: A RECKONING by Meredith Reiches. the title is huge in blocky white text. the background is a closeup on the fur of a presumed orange cat, with unruly tufts of fur poking through and around the letters of the title. you’re gonna have fun reading this book and also it’s not here to fuck around.

Rachel Hands@rachelhands· Jul 6

perfect angel who certainly did not scream at her water bowl on seven separate occasions between midnight and 6:30am

tabby cat looks angelically over her shoulder

Rachel Hands@rachelhands· Jul 5

in retrospect I probably could have set myself up to have a more casual answer when my coworkers ask what I did with my time off and then inevitably ask “oh what were you reading?”

Speculative Relations: Indigenous Worlding and Repair by Joseph M. Pierce. A cat naps beleagueredly in the background.

The Sexuality of Care: On Nursing, Kink, and a Future Without Hospitals by M. K. Thekkumkattil. Cat is napping in the background, not as beleaguered this time.

Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times by Nick Montgomery and carla bergman. no cat in this picture.

Animal Spiral by Luis Othoniel Rosa, translated by Katie Marya. Cat is not pictured.

Rachel Hands@rachelhands· Jul 5

good light update

gauzy pink, orange and purple sunrise over dark houses and trees

Rachel Hands@rachelhands· Jul 4

rainbow located

Rachel Hands@rachelhands· Jul 4

rainbow scouting. nothing yet but there is some early good light

dramatic post storm clouds with hints of pink at the horizon and bright blue sky muscling through

Rachel Hands@rachelhands· Jul 4

July 4 agenda portersquarebooks.com/book/9781478...

Speculative Relations: Indigenous Worlding and Repair by Joseph M. Pierce

Rachel Hands@rachelhands· Jul 4

no, totally, that’s why that was laid out to dry like that

cat lying on what was a clean handknit shawl laid out to dry on mats on the floor

Rachel Hands@rachelhands· Jul 4

good light update, trans rights edition

cotton candy pink and white clouds, blue sky, electrical wires, treetops

Rachel Hands@rachelhands· Jul 3

big “who’s afraid of gender?” energy

screenshot of the AP news article linked above. text reads:

The West African nation is the latest to criminalize homosexuality, following similar measures earlier this year in Senegal.

The new penal code punishes anyone who
"commits or attempts to commit an immodest or unnatural act or practices lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans-gender, Queer, intersex, Asexual (LGBTQIA+) acts" with between five and 10 years in prison and a fine, according to the text of the new penal code.

Rachel Hands@rachelhands· Jul 3

good light update, reluctantly

sunrise over houses and trees. low streaks of purple, glowing pink, and white cloud fading up to clear blue sky.

Rachel Hands@rachelhands· Jul 1

some books I finished and loved in June OTOSIM: “What is a mother? … Someone who knocks chips in your soul that will never mend.” TAOA: you can probably guess why I liked this one WAIAD: “it wasn’t something interpersonal that irked her, but an issue with his theory of rhythm”

On The Other Side Is March by Sólrún Michelsen, translated from the Faroese by Marita Thomsen

The Activism of Art: A Decentered Anthology by Dipti Desai and Stephen Duncombe

Rachel Hands@rachelhands· Jun 28

lfg. (someone sent me a little thing of book darts and i marked out the chronological sequence. it’s very satisfying)

page edges of ANIMAL SPIRAL marked with little silver book darts on the pages that represent the chronological order of the plot, starting from the top of the page and moving. it makes a satisfying spiral-y arc

Rachel Hands@rachelhands· Jun 28

imo bluesky should really be talking more about this book about/in obsessive overthinking, karaoke, translation, real and imagined intimacies, and the different lives we try on/inhabit portersquarebooks.com/book/9781804...