Rachel Hands
@rachelhands.com
contains work, tech, books, good light, weird art and music. also sometimes cats. she/her. 🖤🩶🤍💜. opinions mine. mostly-work writing at the link: rachelhands.com
obviously I also had to say hi to the Sol LeWitt exhibit. got the good gallery light in front of 684A.
January 12, 2026 at 12:47 AM
obviously I also had to say hi to the Sol LeWitt exhibit. got the good gallery light in front of 684A.
another favorite: Jeffrey Gibson’s Power Full Because We’re Different, combining elements of club culture and Leigh Bowery with traditional regalia and Gibson’s bright geometric vocabulary massmoca.org/event/jeffre...
January 12, 2026 at 12:42 AM
another favorite: Jeffrey Gibson’s Power Full Because We’re Different, combining elements of club culture and Leigh Bowery with traditional regalia and Gibson’s bright geometric vocabulary massmoca.org/event/jeffre...
ran away to the mountains for a sec, catch up with you nerds later
January 11, 2026 at 1:48 PM
ran away to the mountains for a sec, catch up with you nerds later
quick break from the horrors: if you liked @portersqbooks.bsky.social thread today about commonplace books, and also you’re an enthusiastic weirdo, you might like this collection of notes toward an unfinished project on paradise that’s part manuscript, part art notebook, and part friend-memorial
January 10, 2026 at 1:08 AM
quick break from the horrors: if you liked @portersqbooks.bsky.social thread today about commonplace books, and also you’re an enthusiastic weirdo, you might like this collection of notes toward an unfinished project on paradise that’s part manuscript, part art notebook, and part friend-memorial
I’ll be there so there will be at least one agenda, anyway
January 6, 2026 at 11:01 PM
I’ll be there so there will be at least one agenda, anyway
team, look at this book of mixed-media good light updates (and, like, meditations on connection and technology and loss) that @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social found me
portersquarebooks.com/book/9781573...
portersquarebooks.com/book/9781573...
January 4, 2026 at 5:54 PM
team, look at this book of mixed-media good light updates (and, like, meditations on connection and technology and loss) that @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social found me
portersquarebooks.com/book/9781573...
portersquarebooks.com/book/9781573...
a little more good light for the road
December 31, 2025 at 9:27 PM
a little more good light for the road
I took a few mini breaks in December which was good news for standout books
-Bad Language by @suchmayer.bsky.social pulls a language thread through a labyrinth of queer memoir, Torah, Ursula LeGuin, and power
-The Week of Colors is, outrageously, the first Elena Garro I’ve read
(cont’d)
-Bad Language by @suchmayer.bsky.social pulls a language thread through a labyrinth of queer memoir, Torah, Ursula LeGuin, and power
-The Week of Colors is, outrageously, the first Elena Garro I’ve read
(cont’d)
December 31, 2025 at 1:58 PM
I took a few mini breaks in December which was good news for standout books
-Bad Language by @suchmayer.bsky.social pulls a language thread through a labyrinth of queer memoir, Torah, Ursula LeGuin, and power
-The Week of Colors is, outrageously, the first Elena Garro I’ve read
(cont’d)
-Bad Language by @suchmayer.bsky.social pulls a language thread through a labyrinth of queer memoir, Torah, Ursula LeGuin, and power
-The Week of Colors is, outrageously, the first Elena Garro I’ve read
(cont’d)
a close runner up is this present for me from me: more shelf space
December 30, 2025 at 1:54 AM
a close runner up is this present for me from me: more shelf space
the best presents I gave this year were the cost of these goofy small notebooks shaped like cassette tapes: bespoke playlists, “liner notes” handwritten in the notebooks, and a QR code taped to the first page that the recipient could scan to listen to whatever weird shit I threw at them
December 29, 2025 at 11:03 PM
the best presents I gave this year were the cost of these goofy small notebooks shaped like cassette tapes: bespoke playlists, “liner notes” handwritten in the notebooks, and a QR code taped to the first page that the recipient could scan to listen to whatever weird shit I threw at them
her favorite human came over and brought her a treat from @portersqbooks.bsky.social
December 28, 2025 at 2:20 PM
her favorite human came over and brought her a treat from @portersqbooks.bsky.social
fun mail from @deepvellum.bsky.social ! yes I do want a short novel by a new-to-me Mexican author that “exposes the pretensions of the upper class, the hypocrisy behind its feigned propriety, and marriage itself as a carefully staged farce,” how did you know
store.deepvellum.org/products/mar...
store.deepvellum.org/products/mar...
December 27, 2025 at 8:09 PM
fun mail from @deepvellum.bsky.social ! yes I do want a short novel by a new-to-me Mexican author that “exposes the pretensions of the upper class, the hypocrisy behind its feigned propriety, and marriage itself as a carefully staged farce,” how did you know
store.deepvellum.org/products/mar...
store.deepvellum.org/products/mar...
no YOU’RE still knitting the socks your mom asked for for Chanukah
December 27, 2025 at 6:28 PM
no YOU’RE still knitting the socks your mom asked for for Chanukah
finished making my way through BODIES OF SOUND. we get to make so many different ways to pay attention to the world/each other! portersquarebooks.com/book/9781739...
December 26, 2025 at 1:54 AM
finished making my way through BODIES OF SOUND. we get to make so many different ways to pay attention to the world/each other! portersquarebooks.com/book/9781739...
can you imagine being the editor on Patti Smith’s 2025 memoir. how.
December 25, 2025 at 12:10 AM
can you imagine being the editor on Patti Smith’s 2025 memoir. how.
my hatch green chile did its job here
December 24, 2025 at 11:48 PM
my hatch green chile did its job here
I should probably be studying for a certification exam I’m begrudgingly taking tomorrow but my perfect angel cat* is asleep on my lap and (Th)ings and (Th)oughts is WAY more fun than studying
*who will be screaming at the top
of her lungs into her water bowl ca. 3am for no discernible reason
*who will be screaming at the top
of her lungs into her water bowl ca. 3am for no discernible reason
December 20, 2025 at 1:41 AM
I should probably be studying for a certification exam I’m begrudgingly taking tomorrow but my perfect angel cat* is asleep on my lap and (Th)ings and (Th)oughts is WAY more fun than studying
*who will be screaming at the top
of her lungs into her water bowl ca. 3am for no discernible reason
*who will be screaming at the top
of her lungs into her water bowl ca. 3am for no discernible reason