![]() ![]() She holds a PhD in Critical Media Studies, with a minor in Feminist & Critical Sexuality Studies from the University of Minnesota, and has taught in colleges and universities in Chicago, Minneapolis, and Boston. Raechel Anne Jolie is a writer, educator, and media-maker living in Minnesota. ![]() Rust Belt Femme is the story of how these twin foundations-rural Ohio poverty and alternative 90s culture-made Raechel into who she is today: a queer femme with PTSD and a deep love of the Midwest. It was the early 90s, full of Nirvana songs and chokers, flannel shirts and cut-off jean shorts, lesbian witches and local coffee shops. ![]() Raechel escaped to the progressive suburbs of Cleveland Heights, leaving the tractors and ranch-style homes home in favor of a city with vintage marquees, music clubs, and people who talked about big ideas. Raechel and her mother struggled for money: they were evicted, went days without utilities, and took their trauma out on one another. After her father came home from his third-shift job, took the garbage out to the curb and was hit by a drunk driver, her life changed. Raechel Anne Jolie's early life in a working-class Cleveland exurb was full of race cars, Budweiser-drinking men covered in car grease, and the women who loved them. This event will be streamed on Women & Children First's Crowdcast Channel. For this event, Jolie will be in conversation with Iliana Regan. Join us for a virtual reading and conversation for Rust Belt Femme by Raechel Anne Jolie. ![]()
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