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…4 min read·Jun 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…3 min read·Apr 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…4 min read·Mar 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…13 min read·Mar 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…2 min read·Mar 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…5 min read·Feb 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…1 min read·Feb 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…3 min read·Feb 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…3 min read·Feb 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…2 min read·Jan 30, 2021----