Rachel Kubie is a public reference librarian in Charlotte, North Carolina. She has been published in Mudlark, Rattapallax, Sou’wester, Drunken Boat, RHINO, and Potomac Review. She has been arrested at the North Carolina legislature, and actively follows the leadership of those who have been arrested many more times than she has. Currently, her concerns, local and state, are affordable housing, police accountability, 287g, NC voting maps, and the dismantling of judicial elections.