Rachel Louise Martin
@rachellou.bsky.social
Author. Historian. Storyteller. Feminist. Teacher. Re-placed Tennesseean.
Author of A Most Tolerant Little Town, Hot Hot Chicken and a forthcoming biography of Rosalynn Carter.
she/her/Dr.
www.rachelmartinwrites.com
Author of A Most Tolerant Little Town, Hot Hot Chicken and a forthcoming biography of Rosalynn Carter.
she/her/Dr.
www.rachelmartinwrites.com
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ACK! I failed to tell y'all THE BEST NEWS I had in 2024:
I had a new screenshot! My next book is going to be a biography of Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am FLABBERGASTED that this project is mine! For the next 18 months, if you need me, well, I am probably in Atlanta or Plains!
I had a new screenshot! My next book is going to be a biography of Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am FLABBERGASTED that this project is mine! For the next 18 months, if you need me, well, I am probably in Atlanta or Plains!
A Most Tolerant Little Town is 2 years old!
Two years ago, I woke up wondering if anyone would bother to read the book I'd spent literal decades researching and writing, then I got a Google alert for a New York Times review ...
Two years ago, I woke up wondering if anyone would bother to read the book I'd spent literal decades researching and writing, then I got a Google alert for a New York Times review ...
June 30, 2025 at 5:21 PM
A Most Tolerant Little Town is 2 years old!
Two years ago, I woke up wondering if anyone would bother to read the book I'd spent literal decades researching and writing, then I got a Google alert for a New York Times review ...
Two years ago, I woke up wondering if anyone would bother to read the book I'd spent literal decades researching and writing, then I got a Google alert for a New York Times review ...
Periodically The Nation commissions writing and art from around the United States, assessing the state of our (dis)union. I was flabbergasted when Richard Kreitner asked my perspective for Tennessee. What I had to say is live online today and will be in print soon!
www.thenation.com/politics/the...
www.thenation.com/politics/the...
These Dis-United States
The country and the nation: Fifty writers and artists report on the states of our dis-union.
www.thenation.com
June 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Periodically The Nation commissions writing and art from around the United States, assessing the state of our (dis)union. I was flabbergasted when Richard Kreitner asked my perspective for Tennessee. What I had to say is live online today and will be in print soon!
www.thenation.com/politics/the...
www.thenation.com/politics/the...
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In an absolutely devastating ruling, the Supreme Court has allowed the transgender military ban to go into effect.
This is shocking - the ban explicitly called transgender people dishonorable for being transgender. It is as clear as day soaked in animus.
www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docke...
This is shocking - the ban explicitly called transgender people dishonorable for being transgender. It is as clear as day soaked in animus.
www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docke...
May 6, 2025 at 6:28 PM
In an absolutely devastating ruling, the Supreme Court has allowed the transgender military ban to go into effect.
This is shocking - the ban explicitly called transgender people dishonorable for being transgender. It is as clear as day soaked in animus.
www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docke...
This is shocking - the ban explicitly called transgender people dishonorable for being transgender. It is as clear as day soaked in animus.
www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docke...
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STEM fields, economics, law, polisci etc. are full of conservatives. Universities have incredible diversity of thought. The criticism is failure of imagination, boils down to the writer defining “university” as a few humanities depts. Business schools aren’t hiring Marxist economists for balance. 😂
The conservative movement has turned against reality on every scientific issue of our time, from gun violence to climate change to epidemiology.
If campuses are ideologically homogenous, it's not because academia has ostracized conservatives. It's because conservatives have ostracized academia.
If campuses are ideologically homogenous, it's not because academia has ostracized conservatives. It's because conservatives have ostracized academia.
April 21, 2025 at 1:13 PM
STEM fields, economics, law, polisci etc. are full of conservatives. Universities have incredible diversity of thought. The criticism is failure of imagination, boils down to the writer defining “university” as a few humanities depts. Business schools aren’t hiring Marxist economists for balance. 😂
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been sitting in a Salvadoran prison for over a month because the Trump Admin made a mistake.
Now, the Admin is defying SCOTUS & refusing to bring him back.
If we allow Trump to violate Kilmar's rights, none of our rights are safe.
Kilmar is all of us.
Now, the Admin is defying SCOTUS & refusing to bring him back.
If we allow Trump to violate Kilmar's rights, none of our rights are safe.
Kilmar is all of us.
BREAKING
The President of El Salvador says he will not be releasing Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
“How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States?”
The Supreme Court recently ordered the Trump administration to facilitate his return.
(Abrego-Garcia was never convicted of terrorism)
The President of El Salvador says he will not be releasing Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
“How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States?”
The Supreme Court recently ordered the Trump administration to facilitate his return.
(Abrego-Garcia was never convicted of terrorism)
April 15, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been sitting in a Salvadoran prison for over a month because the Trump Admin made a mistake.
Now, the Admin is defying SCOTUS & refusing to bring him back.
If we allow Trump to violate Kilmar's rights, none of our rights are safe.
Kilmar is all of us.
Now, the Admin is defying SCOTUS & refusing to bring him back.
If we allow Trump to violate Kilmar's rights, none of our rights are safe.
Kilmar is all of us.
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In case you want to know some of what IMLS funds in the museum world, here's what we have cooking at the moment at The Mark Twain House & Museum. We are in the first year of what was supposed to be a three year project.
March 15, 2025 at 2:45 PM
In case you want to know some of what IMLS funds in the museum world, here's what we have cooking at the moment at The Mark Twain House & Museum. We are in the first year of what was supposed to be a three year project.
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This, by the by, is an effing disaster if it holds up. The number of public libraries that will go under if IMLS is shuttered is mind-boggling. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.
www.whitehouse.gov
March 15, 2025 at 12:47 PM
This, by the by, is an effing disaster if it holds up. The number of public libraries that will go under if IMLS is shuttered is mind-boggling. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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New Yorkers and DC residents trying to talk with @schumer.senate.gov are having to push notes through a locked door with police posted outside.
March 14, 2025 at 4:32 PM
New Yorkers and DC residents trying to talk with @schumer.senate.gov are having to push notes through a locked door with police posted outside.
Rosalynn Carter often had a prickly relationship with the press. In March 1979 she addressed the Gridiron Club, DC's media elite. Some respected comics wrote most of her speech, and then she added her own ending on the importance of uncensored free journalism in a democracy.
It resonated with me...
It resonated with me...
March 14, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Rosalynn Carter often had a prickly relationship with the press. In March 1979 she addressed the Gridiron Club, DC's media elite. Some respected comics wrote most of her speech, and then she added her own ending on the importance of uncensored free journalism in a democracy.
It resonated with me...
It resonated with me...
DAMN IT!!!!!!!!!
Tennessee’s drag ban may be here to stay. The U.S. Supreme Court is refusing to hear the case, after a lower court ruled in the state’s favor. WPLN’s @mariannabac.bsky.social reports that means, for the moment, opposition to the ban is dead.
Tennessee drag ban to stay as SCOTUS refuses to hear the case
Tennessee’s ban on drag in public spaces will remain in effect, as the U.S. Supreme Court refuses to take up a legal challenge to the law. Another suit could give LGTBQ advocates another shot at chall...
wpln.org
February 26, 2025 at 12:30 AM
DAMN IT!!!!!!!!!
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Five stunning new picture books that celebrate Black culture
While the new administration takes aim at DEI initiatives, there’s one place where diversity is alive and well: Children’s literature.
www.fastcompany.com/91274433/fiv...
While the new administration takes aim at DEI initiatives, there’s one place where diversity is alive and well: Children’s literature.
www.fastcompany.com/91274433/fiv...
Five stunning new picture books that celebrate Black culture
While the new administration takes aim at DEI initiatives, there's one place where diversity is alive and well: Children's literature.
www.fastcompany.com
February 20, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Five stunning new picture books that celebrate Black culture
While the new administration takes aim at DEI initiatives, there’s one place where diversity is alive and well: Children’s literature.
www.fastcompany.com/91274433/fiv...
While the new administration takes aim at DEI initiatives, there’s one place where diversity is alive and well: Children’s literature.
www.fastcompany.com/91274433/fiv...
I had been talking myself into applying for an NEA grant this year. Nevermind ... This is appalling!
But here's the rub: An "Assurance of Compliance" for all grantees that includes this language. These should be deal breakers tbh. www.arts.gov/grants/legal...
February 10, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I had been talking myself into applying for an NEA grant this year. Nevermind ... This is appalling!
A few of the people suffering as a result of the president's actions:
For @nashvillebanner.bsky.social on the hundreds of refugees who arrived recently in Nashville before Trump’s executive order cut the safety net beneath them. nashvillebanner.com/2025/02/07/a...
Refugees in Nashville struggle after Trump's executive order - Nashville Banner
An Afghan refugee's journey from safety to uncertainty as Trump's executive order suspends federal support for new arrivals.
nashvillebanner.com
February 7, 2025 at 4:08 PM
A few of the people suffering as a result of the president's actions:
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they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government
Federal health workers are expressing fear and alarm after a website called “DEI Watch List” published the photos, names and public information of a number of workers across health agencies, describing them as “targets.”
Federal health workers terrified after ‘DEI’ website publishes list of ‘targets’
The site calls out workers who have been involved with DEI initiatives. A majority are Black.
www.nbcnews.com
February 5, 2025 at 3:06 AM
they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government
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Happy Black History Month, and yeah, we're still doing that.
a drawing of a fist with a purple bracelet around it
ALT: a drawing of a fist with a purple bracelet around it
media.tenor.com
February 1, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Happy Black History Month, and yeah, we're still doing that.
While reading the news last night, I broke out in hives for the first time in 18 years. How's your body dealing with this onslaught of prejudice and hate and incompetence?
January 30, 2025 at 8:30 PM
While reading the news last night, I broke out in hives for the first time in 18 years. How's your body dealing with this onslaught of prejudice and hate and incompetence?
It is distressing to spend the day with Rosalynn Carter and then return to our present reality.
January 28, 2025 at 8:02 PM
It is distressing to spend the day with Rosalynn Carter and then return to our present reality.
Questions I didn't expect to have while researching Rosalynn Carter (an ongoing list):
1. Who was Chubby Cherub (also called just Chubby)?
1. Who was Chubby Cherub (also called just Chubby)?
January 28, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Questions I didn't expect to have while researching Rosalynn Carter (an ongoing list):
1. Who was Chubby Cherub (also called just Chubby)?
1. Who was Chubby Cherub (also called just Chubby)?
Off to blow through my $85 in Target gift cards, cancel my Circle account and sign up for a Costco membership.
Target rolls back DEI initiatives, the latest big company to retreat cnb.cx/3POyGEd
Target rolls back DEI initiatives, the latest big company to retreat
Target joins Walmart, Meta, McDonald's and a wave of other major companies pulling back on DEI programs.
cnb.cx
January 25, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Off to blow through my $85 in Target gift cards, cancel my Circle account and sign up for a Costco membership.
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All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
January 22, 2025 at 8:46 PM
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
Happy to see this teen fashion mag is continuing the fight they lodged so persistently during the first Trump term
This is a great piece.
"As deportations ramp up again, we have a choice: We can watch as our neighbors disappear or we can build on these proven strategies to protect the diverse communities we've built together."
"As deportations ramp up again, we have a choice: We can watch as our neighbors disappear or we can build on these proven strategies to protect the diverse communities we've built together."
How to Keep Tabs on ICE Agents Who May Be Surveilling Your Neighborhood
Here’s a step-by-step guide.
www.teenvogue.com
January 23, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Happy to see this teen fashion mag is continuing the fight they lodged so persistently during the first Trump term
When I was a child,
I learnt to count to five
one, two, three, four, five.
but these days, I’ve been counting lives, so I count
one life
one life
one life
one life
one life ...
From "The Pedagogy of Conflict"
By Pádraig Ó Tuama
I learnt to count to five
one, two, three, four, five.
but these days, I’ve been counting lives, so I count
one life
one life
one life
one life
one life ...
From "The Pedagogy of Conflict"
By Pádraig Ó Tuama
Two students are dead and another is injured after a shooting at Antioch High School in Nashville this morning.
2 dead, 1 injured in shooting at Nashville high school
Metro Schools reported the shooting was inside Antioch High School and that "the person responsible ... is no longer a threat."
wpln.org
January 23, 2025 at 1:11 AM
When I was a child,
I learnt to count to five
one, two, three, four, five.
but these days, I’ve been counting lives, so I count
one life
one life
one life
one life
one life ...
From "The Pedagogy of Conflict"
By Pádraig Ó Tuama
I learnt to count to five
one, two, three, four, five.
but these days, I’ve been counting lives, so I count
one life
one life
one life
one life
one life ...
From "The Pedagogy of Conflict"
By Pádraig Ó Tuama