Rachel Klein

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Rachel Klein is a writer, performer, and teacher living in Boston, Massachusetts. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, McSweeney's, Reductress, and The Toast. You can follow her on twitter @racheleklein.

Stories

Cover Photo: Tallulah Pomeroy
The One About the Orthodox Jewish Woman and the Rabbi’s Wife

“I saw that God I’d been so determined to believe in not as an absolute, but as a construct that couldn’t take a joke.”

Sep 12, 2017
Cover Photo: Tallulah Pomeroy
Division of Labor: When You Crave Order and Your Family Doesn’t

“My parents had a shared language I didn’t understand, messes I couldn’t always be there to tidy.”

Jun 19, 2017
Cover Photo: photo via Adam Foster/flickr
Losing My Voice and Finding It

In the quiet forced upon me, I started to hear the voices of other selves.

Feb 15, 2017
Cover Photo: photo by Santi Villamarín/flickr
When the Body Breaks Its Silence

“Women’s bodies, I was taught, must be a special kind of strong. Women’s bodies must quietly endure.”

Oct 25, 2016
Cover Photo: Tallulah Pomeroy
Their Body, Themself

My child casually peeled their T-shirt off; I was the one who felt exposed.

Aug 15, 2016