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. It was the early 90s, full of Nirvana songs and chokers, flannel shirts and cut-off jean shorts, lesbian witches and local coffee shops. Raechel escaped to the progressive suburbs of Cleveland Heights, leaving the tractors and ranch-style homes home in favor of a city with vintage marquees, music clubs, and people who talked about big ideas. Raechel and her mother struggled for money: they were evicted, went days without utilities, and took their trauma out on one another. The model also predicts that produc-tivity growth in the Rust Belt is lower than in the rest of the country, as in the data. Raechel Anne Jolies early life in a working-class Cleveland exurb was full of. decline in the Rust Belt’s employment share of about 11 percentage points, which accounts for around two-thirds of the actual 17 percentage-point decline.

After her father came home from his third-shift job, took the garbage out to the curb and was hit by a drunk driver, her life changed. Read Rust Belt Femme by Raechel Anne Jolie available from Rakuten Kobo. Raechel Anne Jolie’s early life in a working-class Cleveland exurb was full of race cars, Budweiser-drinking men covered in car grease, and the women who loved them. Rust Belt Femme One of NPRs Best Books of 2020, and winner of the 2020 Independent Publisher Awards gold medal for LGBTQ+ nonfiction, Raechel Anne. A fierce, unyielding memoir of queer self-discovery in '90s Cleveland

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