ESSAYS
Nonreviews—an irregular newsletter, dedicated to reflections about culture. Co-written with my friend Merkel, we publish pieces only when it moves us enough to write. Ongoing.
Prisons Use Menstruation as a Form of Punishment—TIME, 2023
Florida’s “Don’t Say Period” Bill Can’t Stop the Menstrual wave—Salon, 2023
Why conversations about menstruation are so important—The Guardian, 2022
A red badge of courage, period—Boston Globe, 2022
Theater in the Park—Theater Magazine, 2022
Learning From End of Life Care Workers Now and After COVID-19: Insisting on Structures for Grief and Time—Zine publication featured at Emily Carr University of Art + Design’s collection Publishing the Present: An Archive of Mutual Care and Action—2020
The Birds: A Writer Learns from Therapeutic Theatre—Drama Therapy Review, 2018
Shushes—commissioned for Gallery 101 exhibition The Foley Artists’s Folly, 2018
A Hope for Masculinity—an essay imagining future masculinities included in Faith Popcorn's zine for "The Death of Masculinity and Its Impact on Creativity" at Cannes Lions, 2018
Weird Classrooms—a reflection on Agnes Borinsky's ongoing educational and performance experiment for Culturebot, 2018
The Seed Eaters—a performance diary for DRAFF.net, 2017
3 Wolf Moon–a reflection on art that is about the environment, commissioned by the Theo Westenberger Estate, 2017
Fear Desire Desire Fear—a reflection on a new performance by Emily Mast and Mikaal Sulaiman at PAM for Riting.La, 2016
Death and Doggie Hamlet—a reflection on Ann Carlson's "Doggie Hamlet" at the Vermont Performance Lab for Culturebot, 2016
A Play That is also Like a Short Story Collection—a reflection on Jess Barbagallo's "My Old Man" at Dixon Place for Culturebot, 2016
Belonging—commissioned by the Theo Westenberger Estate, 2016
The Pregnant Body on Stage—Co-written with Deena Selenow for HowlRound, 2016
The Pool I Love—an essay about home, commissioned by the Theo Westenberger Estate, 2015
INTERVIEWS
Radio interview about Our Red Book for NPR’s Where We Live—2023
Radio interview about Our Red Book for Spokane Public Radio—2023
Podcast interview about writing process for Writers on Writing—2022
Radio interview about Our Red Book for WORT.FM’s A Public Affair—2022
Interview about Our Red Book for the Los Angeles Review of Books—2022
Why Has Society Failed to Integrate Grief Into Public Life?—Interview with Sam Huber for The Nation, 2020
Podcast interview with Sarah Ruhl for Skylight Books—2020
A Conversation with Phara Souffrant Forrest on housing, local politics, and why more nurses don’t (but should) run for public office—Medium, 2020
Interview with Thick Press on Medium—”What does a project about death, care work, and feelings have to do with the Green New Deal?”—2020
Podcast interview with Tamir Williams about “care for the future” for UPenn’s Gender Jawn Podcast—2022
Interview with Erik Freer about 3 Hole Press for The Brooklyn Rail—2018
Interview with Emily Mast for DRAFF about her work and why we work in performance—2017
Interview with Deena Selenow for the Parent Artist Advocacy League about The Bumps—2017
Interview with Alicia Eler about The Bumps for CRAVE—2016
Interview with Alexandra Brodsky about The Feminist Utopia Project for Bitch Magazine—2015
Interview with Ligaya Mishan about My Little Red Book for The New Yorker—2009
ZINES
Learning from End of Life Care Workers Now and After COVID-19: Insisting on Structures for Grief and Time
April, 2020
8.5 by 11, 5 pages, Orchid and white, risograph printed
Printed by ipsy bipsy studio
$1 via Thick Press
A conversation between me and Erin Segal, publisher at Thick Press. Thank you to Wendy’s Subway’s and the Libby Leshgold Gallery at Emily Carr University of Art + Design for featuring this zine in your collection, Publishing the Present: An Archive of Mutual Care and Action! Check out all their amazing zines ! I love their description: In conversation with Thick Press, Rachel shows how writing, public art, and living an emotionally engaged life has the potential to politicize care work and healthcare.
You can read this zine in print from Thick Press or read a version online via dirt.
What does a project about death, care work, and feelings have to do with the Green New Deal?
February, 2020
8.5 by 11, 5 pages, blue and white, risograph printed
Printed by ipsy bipsy studio
$1 via Thick Press
A conversation between me and Erin Segal, publisher at Thick Press.
You can read the zine in print via Thick Press or online.