Rachel Robbins
Bio
Writer-Performer based in the North of England. A joyous, flawed mess.
Please read my stories and enjoy. And if you can, please leave a tip. Money raised will be used towards funding a one-woman story-telling, comedy show.
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Stories (86/0)
Fredi Washington (1903 – 1994)
“Early in my career it was suggested that I might get further by passing as French or something exotic. But to pass for economic or other advantages would have meant that I swallowed, whole hog, the idea of Black inferiority” (Fredi Washington in the Chicago Defender, 1945)
By Rachel Robbins8 months ago in Geeks
- Top Story - September 2023
Scrapper (2023)
Many years ago (nearly three) I used to have a proper job as a social work researcher and educator. Whilst in that role I would often find myself watching films and reading books and thinking – should I recommend this to the students? It has been a glorious release not to think like that anymore.
By Rachel Robbins9 months ago in Geeks
- Top Story - August 2023
It Happened One Night (1934)Top Story - August 2023
I can hardly call myself a connoisseur of Classic Hollywood and the romantic comedy if I haven’t got an opinion on It Happened One Night (1934). The film is often considered the blue print for the romcom genre with Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable setting the tone for the push and pull of the attraction across social divides for filmic eternity.
By Rachel Robbins9 months ago in Geeks
Perfect Skin
This is my response to the Sweet Summer Challenge From Oneg and James. Challenge #1 Sweet Summer Song: Pick a song that represents summer for you. Use the song as the title of your piece, and to inspire either a poem or a short story/micro fiction about summer. Feel free to use some of the song's lyrics in your piece as well. So what does summer feel like for you? Click here
By Rachel Robbins10 months ago in Poets
- Top Story - July 2023
Sinead O'ConnorTop Story - July 2023
A few years ago, an ex-boyfriend sent me the link to Sinead O’Connor’s song – Mandinka. He wanted me to know that it reminded him of me, how I was when he knew me. We were a couple in the late 1980s. I was a first year University Drama student. I was in the midst of grappling with who I was, my Catholic faith, and how to project myself onto the world.
By Rachel Robbins10 months ago in Beat