Rachael Levay
@rlevay.bsky.social
Senior editor of sociology and anthropology at Princeton University Press. Cofounder Paths in Publishing. Running, books, kids, somewhere out west.
Veggie burger and fries on Friday nights: 11yo eats only spicy black bean patty with fries; 5yo eats only Bluey sandwich (cheddar cheese with jam on pitas) and fruit, as she refuses all potato products. Cross contamination results in rage.
What’s it like to have kids? Breakfast for dinner and 11yo eats only hashbrowns and fried eggs, hates veggie sausage; 5yo eats only veggie sausage and scrambled eggs, hates hashbrowns. Cross contamination results in rage.
November 21, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Veggie burger and fries on Friday nights: 11yo eats only spicy black bean patty with fries; 5yo eats only Bluey sandwich (cheddar cheese with jam on pitas) and fruit, as she refuses all potato products. Cross contamination results in rage.
What’s it like to have kids? Breakfast for dinner and 11yo eats only hashbrowns and fried eggs, hates veggie sausage; 5yo eats only veggie sausage and scrambled eggs, hates hashbrowns. Cross contamination results in rage.
November 20, 2025 at 12:17 AM
What’s it like to have kids? Breakfast for dinner and 11yo eats only hashbrowns and fried eggs, hates veggie sausage; 5yo eats only veggie sausage and scrambled eggs, hates hashbrowns. Cross contamination results in rage.
This article is absolutely devastating.
NEW:
In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant.
She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency.
Then she died.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant.
She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency.
Then she died.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
www.propublica.org
November 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
This article is absolutely devastating.
Yet again: don't threaten me with a good time!
It’s amazing how this story has gone from 0 to 60 in UK press. There’s been no mainstream coverage to date but this morning the story is leading BBC News site & bulletins.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Google boss Sundar Pichai warns 'no company immune' if AI bubble bursts
Speaking exclusively to BBC News, CEO Sundar Pichai said the artificial intelligence boom had been an
www.bbc.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Yet again: don't threaten me with a good time!
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I'm at the Target boycott, I'm at the Starbucks boycott, I'm at the combination Target boycott and Starbucks boycott
Beginning Monday, a Frozen Peppermint Hot Chocolate drink will be available exclusively at Starbucks cafés inside Target stores.
The chains are hoping the drink can drum up excitement from customers this holiday season.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/yrshv45s
The chains are hoping the drink can drum up excitement from customers this holiday season.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/yrshv45s
November 17, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I'm at the Target boycott, I'm at the Starbucks boycott, I'm at the combination Target boycott and Starbucks boycott
Just a few days ago Ride Wit Me came out of my memory like smoke and I listened to all the Nelly I could. The songs have still got it, my sixth grader agreed.
My personal favorites are Country Grammar Shake Ya Tailfeather and Ride Wit Me but when I hear the opening bars of Hot in Herre it activates a tiny part of my brain that instantly transports me to off campus basement parties circa 2003 and that’s real power
November 18, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Just a few days ago Ride Wit Me came out of my memory like smoke and I listened to all the Nelly I could. The songs have still got it, my sixth grader agreed.
Top 5 movie genres are:
-nothing happens but it’s devastatingly sad
-dancing
-road trip
-family at the holidays
-is it comedy? is it drama?
-nothing happens but it’s devastatingly sad
-dancing
-road trip
-family at the holidays
-is it comedy? is it drama?
Top 5 movie genres are:
heist
intelligence/espionage thriller
pitch perfect
cerebral ensemble oscar fodder drama
heist some more
heist
intelligence/espionage thriller
pitch perfect
cerebral ensemble oscar fodder drama
heist some more
Top 5 movie genres are:
People being shits at a dinner party
Rotting mansion, faded starlet/society beauty, high-camp fuckdown
Either nothing or everything happened, glacially slowly & visually stunningly
Woman is being haunted or maybe there’s actually a gross guy
Tilda Swinton hears a weird noise
People being shits at a dinner party
Rotting mansion, faded starlet/society beauty, high-camp fuckdown
Either nothing or everything happened, glacially slowly & visually stunningly
Woman is being haunted or maybe there’s actually a gross guy
Tilda Swinton hears a weird noise
November 17, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Top 5 movie genres are:
-nothing happens but it’s devastatingly sad
-dancing
-road trip
-family at the holidays
-is it comedy? is it drama?
-nothing happens but it’s devastatingly sad
-dancing
-road trip
-family at the holidays
-is it comedy? is it drama?
Reposted by Rachael Levay
The reason why most women my age couldn't care less if Bill Clinton goes down with the ship is that we were teens & young women when the Anita Hill and Monica Lewinsky scandals happened. It's rotten to the core. All the way down. Your "lost" era is not ours.
November 16, 2025 at 1:41 PM
The reason why most women my age couldn't care less if Bill Clinton goes down with the ship is that we were teens & young women when the Anita Hill and Monica Lewinsky scandals happened. It's rotten to the core. All the way down. Your "lost" era is not ours.
Delighted to see Allison Daminger’s What’s On Her Mind? featured in @annehelen.bsky.social’s Culture Study. One of my favorite books that I’ve read (and was lucky enough to edit as it came to publication).
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A Fascinating Approach to "Cognitive Household Labor" | Culture Study
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November 16, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Delighted to see Allison Daminger’s What’s On Her Mind? featured in @annehelen.bsky.social’s Culture Study. One of my favorite books that I’ve read (and was lucky enough to edit as it came to publication).
www.patreon.com/posts/143290...
www.patreon.com/posts/143290...
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So saddened by the news that we have lost Alice Wong. It was an honor to know her and learn from her. May the lessons she shared continue to guide us for years to come.
November 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
So saddened by the news that we have lost Alice Wong. It was an honor to know her and learn from her. May the lessons she shared continue to guide us for years to come.
Yesterday a small winter bird was on our front porch, injured. We didn’t know what to do but sheltered it in case a cat passed by, brought it water, and let it rest. It eventually flew away and what if we were all of us met with shelter, respite, water, and a caring eye?
November 15, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Yesterday a small winter bird was on our front porch, injured. We didn’t know what to do but sheltered it in case a cat passed by, brought it water, and let it rest. It eventually flew away and what if we were all of us met with shelter, respite, water, and a caring eye?
As I age, I get more emotional about the passing of people I’ve never met, but who have impacted me so much in ways both small and foundational. Today is one of those days, losing @sfdirewolf.bsky.social.
November 15, 2025 at 5:19 PM
As I age, I get more emotional about the passing of people I’ve never met, but who have impacted me so much in ways both small and foundational. Today is one of those days, losing @sfdirewolf.bsky.social.
As someone who spent a lot of money on upcoming Thanksgiving travel I DO NOT CARE DONT BACK DOWN MY GOD
November 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
As someone who spent a lot of money on upcoming Thanksgiving travel I DO NOT CARE DONT BACK DOWN MY GOD
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In this @latimes.com op-ed, @leahegose.bsky.social draws on her research and volunteer work to show how the SNAP benefits cutoff is worsening hunger. She writes that the Trump administration could fund SNAP during the shutdown but has not, and shares ways readers can help locally. ⤵️
Sharing an op-ed I penned about the importance of SNAP--not just for the program's beneficiaries, but for all us. In the meantime, we're putting a lot of pressure on local food pantries--and they will certainly need our support. (TLDR: give money to your local orgs)
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
Contributor: Interruption in SNAP benefit turns a chronic hunger problem into an acute crisis
Many food pantries are already operating at capacity and won't be able to close the gap when the federal shutdown cuts into aid.
www.latimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:22 PM
In this @latimes.com op-ed, @leahegose.bsky.social draws on her research and volunteer work to show how the SNAP benefits cutoff is worsening hunger. She writes that the Trump administration could fund SNAP during the shutdown but has not, and shares ways readers can help locally. ⤵️
reposting now that I’ve found @leahegose.bsky.social!!
Fantastic op-ed from an excellent sociologist, Leah Gose, on the critical importance of SNAP and the challenge food pantries face in closing an uncloseable gap.
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
Contributor: Interruption in SNAP benefit turns a chronic hunger problem into an acute crisis
Many food pantries are already operating at capacity and won't be able to close the gap when the federal shutdown cuts into aid.
www.latimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:26 PM
reposting now that I’ve found @leahegose.bsky.social!!
Fantastic op-ed from an excellent sociologist, Leah Gose, on the critical importance of SNAP and the challenge food pantries face in closing an uncloseable gap.
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
Contributor: Interruption in SNAP benefit turns a chronic hunger problem into an acute crisis
Many food pantries are already operating at capacity and won't be able to close the gap when the federal shutdown cuts into aid.
www.latimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Fantastic op-ed from an excellent sociologist, Leah Gose, on the critical importance of SNAP and the challenge food pantries face in closing an uncloseable gap.
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
Guys. The Democrat got the highest votes in Pocatello’s mayoral race last night. We are looking at a runoff in December since no one hit 50% (five candidates ran) but that’s never happened in our almost-12 years here.
November 5, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Guys. The Democrat got the highest votes in Pocatello’s mayoral race last night. We are looking at a runoff in December since no one hit 50% (five candidates ran) but that’s never happened in our almost-12 years here.
“Bring It On Home to Me” is probably the best song I’ve ever heard. I will never get tired of it, that “if you ever, change your mind, about leaving — leaving me behind”
"When I first heard Sam Cooke’s music, I had no idea that he had a legacy, that his voice had been tragically silenced in the prime of his life or that he once sang with one of my father’s favorite Gospel groups."
medium.com/p/441275a6f258
medium.com/p/441275a6f258
“Nearer to Thee”: The Still Evolving Legacy and Politics of Sam Cooke by Mark Anthony Neal
All I knew was that there was something that I heard in the man’s voice. This was me, in the mid-1970s watching TV in our South Bronx…
medium.com
November 2, 2025 at 3:47 PM
“Bring It On Home to Me” is probably the best song I’ve ever heard. I will never get tired of it, that “if you ever, change your mind, about leaving — leaving me behind”
Reposted by Rachael Levay
Want to speak up for an affordable, inclusive Princeton? Write to us, and get a yard sign!
princeton4all.org
princeton4all.org
October 18, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Want to speak up for an affordable, inclusive Princeton? Write to us, and get a yard sign!
princeton4all.org
princeton4all.org
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Slow Horses. What an utter treat it is.
October 30, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Slow Horses. What an utter treat it is.
Pretty heartbreaking stuff to get a massive email from my kids’ school counselor about the resources available for those families that will be hungry starting on Monday.
October 31, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Pretty heartbreaking stuff to get a massive email from my kids’ school counselor about the resources available for those families that will be hungry starting on Monday.
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Reposted by Rachael Levay
Breaking point. All over the world. What’s the sound of collective snapping.
October 29, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Breaking point. All over the world. What’s the sound of collective snapping.