Rachel BeanWinston Smith was AssassinatedA 32 year old comedian, musician, father, brother, son, and friend was murdered by Hennepin County and Ramsey County Sheriff’s officers…Jun 10, 2021Jun 10, 2021
Rachel Beandispatch from collapse: scarcitySomething happened this month. Not really happened, but changed. Something changed. Where in February and March, despite full collapse…Apr 28, 2021Apr 28, 2021
Rachel Beandispatch from collapse: feeling readyi’ve officially been off work for 7 weeks and while i feel like words and thoughts and feelings (so many feeeeelings) are sloshing around…Mar 19, 2021Mar 19, 2021
Rachel BeanIs it Long Covid or is it my career?I actually think I originally had COVID in January 2020. In Minnesota, people were only just starting to talk about the devastating virus…Mar 5, 2021Mar 5, 2021
Rachel Beana prayer for George FloydI came to George Floyd Square to pray, I think. I’m not sure I know what that means as a non-theist, raised-Lutheran person. Derek…Mar 2, 2021Mar 2, 2021
Rachel Beandispatch from collapse: 3 weeks ini’m coming up on 3 weeks off from work and people have started asking me how it’s going. usually in the form of a text, i get this…Feb 16, 2021Feb 16, 2021
Rachel Beandispatch from collapse: wordlessI’ve been writing. Notes in my phone. Drafts of things in Google drive. But I’ve also had a crash- people in the ME/CFS world call it…Feb 11, 2021Feb 11, 2021
Rachel Beandispatch from collapse: antidote to shameso much of my overly public admission that i needed to take time off work was about combatting the power of the shame that was swirling in…Feb 5, 2021Feb 5, 2021
Rachel Beandispatch from collapse: 10 minutes of resti went to the grocery store this morning. it’s the first time i’ve left the house since saturday morning. because a thing you don’t…Feb 2, 2021Feb 2, 2021
Rachel Beanno. 01 dispatch from collapseI’ve started conceptualizing for myself that there are tiers to my self-care (for lacking of a better alternative because fuck self-care: a…Jan 30, 2021Jan 30, 2021
