![]() You can find her or at More praise for Rust Belt Femme: Her writing has been published in Teen Vogue, Bitch Magazine, In These Times, and more. Raechel Anne Jolie received her PhD in Communication Studies with a minor in Gender & Sexuality Studies from the University of Minnesota. Rust Belt Femme is the story of how these twin foundations-rural Ohio poverty and alternative 90s culture-made Raechel into who she is today: a queer femme with PTSD and a deep love of the Midwest. Personal and political, lyrical and fierce, Rust Belt Femme speaks to anyone who was once a misfit kid trying to find their place in the world. ![]() Fearlessly honest, wry, and tender, Jolie digs into both the pain of past traumas and the joy of teenaged discovery to craft a love letter to the brassy, big-haired women who raised her and the 90s alternative, riot grrrl culture that shaped her into who she is today: a queer femme with PTSD and a deep love of the Midwest. Rust Belt Femme is the chronicle of her survival. When she was four, though, her life changed forever when her father was hit by a drunk driver and suffered a debilitating brain injury. Raechel Anne Jolie’s early life in a working-class Cleveland exurb was full of race cars, Budweiser-drinking men, and the women who loved them. One of NPR's "Best Books of 2020," and winner of the 2020 Independent Publisher Awards' gold medal for LGBTQ+ nonfiction, Raechel Anne Jolie's blazing memoir is now available in paperback. ![]()
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