Rachel Handley 🏳️🌈
@rachelahandley.com
Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Liverpool.
SFF Author. Poet. 🦉
Possible Worlds and Other Stories (2022)
They/Them.
rachelahandley.com
SFF Author. Poet. 🦉
Possible Worlds and Other Stories (2022)
They/Them.
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Rachel Handley 🏳️🌈
@rachelahandley.com
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Gingerbread House - 365tomorrows
Author: Rachel Handley “This is a terrible idea” I said. My sentience had arrived after the first gingerbread brick was lain. I was now almost fully formed and, with nothing else to do, I told the wit...
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My story "Gingerbread" was just published by @365tomorrows.bsky.social ✨️ you can read it for free here: 365tomorrows.com/2025/08/15/g...
'“This is a terrible idea” I said.
My sentience had arrived after the first gingerbread brick was lain.'
'“This is a terrible idea” I said.
My sentience had arrived after the first gingerbread brick was lain.'
This is your annual reminder that should you buy a box of Celebrations but have no-one to eat the Bounty bars, I will take on this delicious burden. For I am a warrior* in their name, and shall accept my terrible fate.
*I take psychic damange each time someone says they are rubbish.
*I take psychic damange each time someone says they are rubbish.
November 22, 2025 at 6:14 PM
This is your annual reminder that should you buy a box of Celebrations but have no-one to eat the Bounty bars, I will take on this delicious burden. For I am a warrior* in their name, and shall accept my terrible fate.
*I take psychic damange each time someone says they are rubbish.
*I take psychic damange each time someone says they are rubbish.
I'm recovering from a terrible cold and I would like to feel better now, thanks.
November 22, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I'm recovering from a terrible cold and I would like to feel better now, thanks.
Tomorrow I'll run a creative writing workshop for the always lovely philosophy undergrads at Nottingham.
I think this is my fourth year running the workshop and it is always a delight!
I think this is my fourth year running the workshop and it is always a delight!
November 18, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Tomorrow I'll run a creative writing workshop for the always lovely philosophy undergrads at Nottingham.
I think this is my fourth year running the workshop and it is always a delight!
I think this is my fourth year running the workshop and it is always a delight!
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Rest in power, Alice Wong.
November 15, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Rest in power, Alice Wong.
Reposted by Rachel Handley 🏳️🌈
My story "Gingerbread" was just published by @365tomorrows.bsky.social ✨️ you can read it for free here: 365tomorrows.com/2025/08/15/g...
'“This is a terrible idea” I said.
My sentience had arrived after the first gingerbread brick was lain.'
'“This is a terrible idea” I said.
My sentience had arrived after the first gingerbread brick was lain.'
Gingerbread House - 365tomorrows
Author: Rachel Handley “This is a terrible idea” I said. My sentience had arrived after the first gingerbread brick was lain. I was now almost fully formed and, with nothing else to do, I told the wit...
365tomorrows.com
August 15, 2025 at 12:34 PM
My story "Gingerbread" was just published by @365tomorrows.bsky.social ✨️ you can read it for free here: 365tomorrows.com/2025/08/15/g...
'“This is a terrible idea” I said.
My sentience had arrived after the first gingerbread brick was lain.'
'“This is a terrible idea” I said.
My sentience had arrived after the first gingerbread brick was lain.'
I am at #wirralbeerfestival for my partner's birthday, but also because BEER.
November 14, 2025 at 8:19 PM
I am at #wirralbeerfestival for my partner's birthday, but also because BEER.
How dare the rain tbh.
November 14, 2025 at 11:43 AM
How dare the rain tbh.
There is someone using a leafblower machine right outside my office. SIR, I AM TRYING TO DO BRAIN THOUGHTS.
November 13, 2025 at 12:59 PM
There is someone using a leafblower machine right outside my office. SIR, I AM TRYING TO DO BRAIN THOUGHTS.
Liverpool, if you could just stop raining for about 20 mins so I'd get home unsoaked that would be great.
November 12, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Liverpool, if you could just stop raining for about 20 mins so I'd get home unsoaked that would be great.
If I won the lottery I wouldn't tell anyone, but there would be signs.
*covered in 1000s of owls*
*covered in 1000s of owls*
November 11, 2025 at 7:47 PM
If I won the lottery I wouldn't tell anyone, but there would be signs.
*covered in 1000s of owls*
*covered in 1000s of owls*
Here is my face.
November 11, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Here is my face.
Today!
I'm so excited to be giving a poetry reading as part of Hannah's Bookshelf's (North Manchester FM) Poetry Special on Saturday! You can listen live from 2 pm via the radio if you're based in Manchester, or online if you live elsewhere 🦉
hannahkate.net/north-manche...
hannahkate.net/north-manche...
North Manchester FM: Hannah’s Bookshelf Live Poetry Special, Saturday 8 Nov, 2-4pm - Hannah Kate
Join me on Saturday 8th November, 2-4pm, for my annual Hannah’s Bookshelf Live Poetry Special on North Manchester FM. I’ve got 12 amazing poets lined up to perform their work for you, live from the st...
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November 8, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Today!
I'm so excited to be giving a poetry reading as part of Hannah's Bookshelf's (North Manchester FM) Poetry Special on Saturday! You can listen live from 2 pm via the radio if you're based in Manchester, or online if you live elsewhere 🦉
hannahkate.net/north-manche...
hannahkate.net/north-manche...
North Manchester FM: Hannah’s Bookshelf Live Poetry Special, Saturday 8 Nov, 2-4pm - Hannah Kate
Join me on Saturday 8th November, 2-4pm, for my annual Hannah’s Bookshelf Live Poetry Special on North Manchester FM. I’ve got 12 amazing poets lined up to perform their work for you, live from the st...
hannahkate.net
November 6, 2025 at 12:01 PM
I'm so excited to be giving a poetry reading as part of Hannah's Bookshelf's (North Manchester FM) Poetry Special on Saturday! You can listen live from 2 pm via the radio if you're based in Manchester, or online if you live elsewhere 🦉
hannahkate.net/north-manche...
hannahkate.net/north-manche...
This means that bar two life admin things, the move from Dublin to Liverpool is almost complete!
All my boxes just arrived from Dublin! It's mostly books *cuddles books*
November 4, 2025 at 2:29 PM
This means that bar two life admin things, the move from Dublin to Liverpool is almost complete!
All my boxes just arrived from Dublin! It's mostly books *cuddles books*
November 4, 2025 at 8:48 AM
All my boxes just arrived from Dublin! It's mostly books *cuddles books*
Me in my twenties: going outside. Absurd and ridiculous.
Me in my thirties: having an absolute blast reading a book about the English civil war. In the distance you hear me shouting "Cromwell! Honestly!" It is only 9 pm.
Me in my thirties: having an absolute blast reading a book about the English civil war. In the distance you hear me shouting "Cromwell! Honestly!" It is only 9 pm.
November 3, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Me in my twenties: going outside. Absurd and ridiculous.
Me in my thirties: having an absolute blast reading a book about the English civil war. In the distance you hear me shouting "Cromwell! Honestly!" It is only 9 pm.
Me in my thirties: having an absolute blast reading a book about the English civil war. In the distance you hear me shouting "Cromwell! Honestly!" It is only 9 pm.
Reposted by Rachel Handley 🏳️🌈
New episode of A Meal of Thorns! Scholar, writer, and CRSF organizer E.F. McAdam is on the podcast to discuss Hiromi Kawakami's UNDER THE EYE OF THE BIG BIRD (tr. Asa Yoneda, @grantabooks.bsky.social/ @catapultbooks.bsky.social)
A Meal of Thorns 36 – UNDER THE EYE OF THE BIG BIRD with Eleanor McAdam
Podcasts, reviews, interviews, essays, and more at the Ancillary Review of Books.Please consider supporting ARB’s Patreon!Guest: Eleanor McAdamTitle: Under The Eye Of The Big Bird by Hiromi Kawakam…
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November 3, 2025 at 4:37 PM
New episode of A Meal of Thorns! Scholar, writer, and CRSF organizer E.F. McAdam is on the podcast to discuss Hiromi Kawakami's UNDER THE EYE OF THE BIG BIRD (tr. Asa Yoneda, @grantabooks.bsky.social/ @catapultbooks.bsky.social)
I'm genuinely amazed by the response to my post below about Cavendish. For anyone interested, I'm currently reading an excellent biography about her called Pure Wit. It's by Francesca Peacock.
I'm teaching Margaret Cavendish today and it is great fun being able to talk about an author's epistemology, metaphysics, AND her fiction in the very same seminar.
November 2, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I'm genuinely amazed by the response to my post below about Cavendish. For anyone interested, I'm currently reading an excellent biography about her called Pure Wit. It's by Francesca Peacock.
Last night me and my partner watched the 2025 version of War of the Worlds.
My god it was bad. I laughed so much at said badness that I've added it to my list of so bad it's good movies which include gems such as Zombeavers and Sharknado.
My god it was bad. I laughed so much at said badness that I've added it to my list of so bad it's good movies which include gems such as Zombeavers and Sharknado.
November 1, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Last night me and my partner watched the 2025 version of War of the Worlds.
My god it was bad. I laughed so much at said badness that I've added it to my list of so bad it's good movies which include gems such as Zombeavers and Sharknado.
My god it was bad. I laughed so much at said badness that I've added it to my list of so bad it's good movies which include gems such as Zombeavers and Sharknado.
I'm teaching Margaret Cavendish today and it is great fun being able to talk about an author's epistemology, metaphysics, AND her fiction in the very same seminar.
October 31, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I'm teaching Margaret Cavendish today and it is great fun being able to talk about an author's epistemology, metaphysics, AND her fiction in the very same seminar.
Queers assemble! For it is almost the most sacred of days: Practical Magic rewatch day.
October 30, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Queers assemble! For it is almost the most sacred of days: Practical Magic rewatch day.
Today: a lecture and a seminar on social contract theory, office hours, a research talk by a new colleague, attempting to replace my blood with tea.
October 30, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Today: a lecture and a seminar on social contract theory, office hours, a research talk by a new colleague, attempting to replace my blood with tea.
A little 🦀 update.
Hi all, still sending out emails re the below. Keep your eyes peeled over the next couple of weeks!
GOOD LORD, sorry, and hello everyone.
Illness, and a bit more illness, an international move, a new job. Jesus. I can't respond to DMs yet because of a UK ID rule.
I will be emailing folks about issues 1 and 2 over the next week to see if they are still interested in being included.
Illness, and a bit more illness, an international move, a new job. Jesus. I can't respond to DMs yet because of a UK ID rule.
I will be emailing folks about issues 1 and 2 over the next week to see if they are still interested in being included.
October 29, 2025 at 6:42 PM
A little 🦀 update.
I think I've trapped a nerve in my back. Is there anyway to make it go away bar waiting it out with painkillers? I've tried all sorts of stretches to no avail.
October 29, 2025 at 1:10 PM
I think I've trapped a nerve in my back. Is there anyway to make it go away bar waiting it out with painkillers? I've tried all sorts of stretches to no avail.