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Rachael Hope
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Published in An Injustice!

·4 days ago

This Is America: Where Everything’s Made Up and Lives Don’t Matter

Our children are being murdered, and we’re letting it happen — It has been 2,652 days since I wrote this article. It has been 1,023 days since I wrote this article. It has been 922 days since I wrote this article. It has been 305 days since I wrote this article. It has been 299 days since I wrote this article. …

School Shootings

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This Is America: Where Everything’s Made Up and Lives Don’t Matter
This Is America: Where Everything’s Made Up and Lives Don’t Matter
School Shootings

7 min read


Feb 17

20 Simple Ways to Practice Sex-Positive Parenting

How I’m making conscious choices to raise considerate, thoughtful, self-aware sons — To some, this may be shocking: I have a sex life, and I don’t hide it from my kids. In past generations, tight-lipped has been the norm when it comes to sex in general, let alone our own sex lives. But how are our kids supposed to learn to have…

Parenting

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20 Simple Ways to Practice Sex-Positive Parenting
20 Simple Ways to Practice Sex-Positive Parenting
Parenting

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Feb 16

Growth from Ashes: Rising from the Depths of My Deepest Wound

Finding the truth in the lies we let ourselves believe — At a Presbyterian Womens’ Retreat in the foothills of the Cascades, we do an exercise where we are instructed to write a lie we’ve believed about ourselves on our palm in eyeliner. The room is quiet, and it takes me no time at all to figure it out. I am…

Personal Growth

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Growth from Ashes: Rising from the Depths of My Deepest Wound
Growth from Ashes: Rising from the Depths of My Deepest Wound
Personal Growth

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Nov 8, 2022

Stillness is Movement

A poem for broken hearts — “There’ll be happiness after you But there was happiness because of you Both of these things can be true There is happiness Leave it all behind And there is happiness” .TSwift. The thing is, I feel like I’m dying. Not like I’m going to die, or like I don’t want…

Poetry

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Stillness is Movement
Stillness is Movement
Poetry

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Published in Fattitude

·Aug 2, 2022

Missing the Market: Why Brands Refuse to Cash in On the Potential of Plus Sized Fashion

Extended sizing is almost always an afterthought, but why are sizes 0–10 still the baseline when they cover less than 30% of the US consumer base? — I see ads constantly in my social media feeds for clothing. Most of the time I just scroll by, because while the clothes often look cool, the chances they’ll have them in my size are slim to none. It’s frustrating to see something gorgeous that very much fits my aesthetic…

Fashion

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Missing the Market: Why Brands Refuse to Cash in On the Potential of Plus Sized Fashion
Missing the Market: Why Brands Refuse to Cash in On the Potential of Plus Sized Fashion
Fashion

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Published in Rachael Writes

·Jul 6, 2022

Want to Support Women? It’s Time to Do Your Own Emotional Labor

In the aftermath of Roe v. Wade’s repeal, we are no longer capable of managing the emotional well being of men — The last week has been something of a hellscape, and I’ve been spending a lot of time in spaces where women are commiserating about how different and horrible it feels to have our rights stripped away from us. One reoccurring theme that’s come up again and again is the way…

Roe V Wade

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Want to Support Women? It’s Time to Do Your Own Emotional Labor
Want to Support Women? It’s Time to Do Your Own Emotional Labor
Roe V Wade

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Jun 28, 2022

More Than An Abortion Ban: The Rippling Devastation of Losing Roe v. Wade

This is not just legislation or politics, these are our lives, our futures, our basic rights to be seen as equally human. — I want to be coherent, but I’m not sure I know how anymore. The words that rise up within me don’t feel like enough. My feelings crash over me, violent waves in an ocean of incredulous tears. Rage. A twisted stomach. A fire in my heart. Shock (but not surprise…

Roe V Wade

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More Than An Abortion Ban: The Rippling Devastation of Losing Roe v. Wade
More Than An Abortion Ban: The Rippling Devastation of Losing Roe v. Wade
Roe V Wade

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Published in Rachael Writes

·Jun 2, 2022

Why Is America so Committed to Completely Denying Its Gun Problem?

It’s time to admit this isn’t working, and there’s only one question: which do we value more, human life or unregulated gun ownership? — It’s been 10 days since an 18–year-old boy walked in to Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas and massacred two teachers and 19 fourth-graders. Last night, I sat down and wrote out the names of each of the students, and their two teachers, letting my pen glide across the paper…

Gun Violence

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Why Is America so Committed to Completely Denying Its Gun Problem?
Why Is America so Committed to Completely Denying Its Gun Problem?
Gun Violence

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Published in Rachael Writes

·May 27, 2022

STOP : Incomprehensible but Not Unimaginable

Our children are literally begging us to save their lives. When will it be enough? — It has been 2,652 days since I wrote this article. It has been 1,023 days since I wrote this article. It has been 922 days since I wrote this article. STOP I can’t write this article again. How can I write anything when I’m disjointed, the edges of my brain pressing against…

Uvalde

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STOP : Incomprehensible but Not Unimaginable
STOP : Incomprehensible but Not Unimaginable
Uvalde

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Published in Rachael Writes

·May 18, 2022

I Am 1 in 4: The Depp/Heard Trial is a Dangerous Farce

Johnny Depp is gaslighting us all; and when you blame his victim, you’re blaming me. — I haven’t been paying attention to the Johnny Depp/Amber Heard defamation trial because… I don’ t know. It was just one more thing that seemed terrible in a news cycle full of terrible things. Today I made the mistake of watching about 5 minutes of Amber Heard’s testimony, and I…

Current Events

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I Am 1 in 4: The Depp/Heard Trial is a Dangerous Farce
I Am 1 in 4: The Depp/Heard Trial is a Dangerous Farce
Current Events

6 min read

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