Rage & Softness is a free newsletter offering a unique view from someone who has been chronically online in feminist spaces since 2011. The byline is: “Navigating vulnerability & resistance, disability & ableism, and the ambivalence of online culture from a Marxist feminist librarian.”
I publish an essay on each Friday at 10am CST to all subscribers, which also includes a list of links. Think of me as your cool, weird, nerdy sister or friend. I write critical commentary on a variety of topics from a Marxist abolitionist feminist lens. Some is heavily researched, some is intensely personal. Some is just fun.
Subscription Options
FREE - Essays + Links (on various topics published weekly each Friday)
$5/month or $35/yr - This Week’s Rage & Softness (every Sunday), Book Nook (monthly book column featuring new books), and Ask Guerrilla Femme (sporadic advice column).
$100/yr - Founding Member: My undying love and gratitude!
My name is Lachrista Greco, which translates to “the Greek female Christ” in Italian. I’m a writer, educator, librarian, maker, and strega living on Ho-Chunk Land (Madison, Wisconsin). I’m a consultant to organizations and universities on preventing digital violence (and teaching survivors how to cope). My specialties and interests are: digital violence/sexual violence prevention and survivor support, curating and cataloging digital activism and online movements, learning disabilities/neurodiversity, Italianità, and trauma-informed healing. You can read more about me and how to work with me on my website.
I’m most known in these internet streets for being the human behind @lachristagreco (formerly theguerrillafeminist), which has 235K followers. GF initially started as a performance art campaign in 2011 in Chicago, blending social justice activism and viewer’s interactions with feminist statements and images.
I have published two books: the first, an anthology called, Olive Grrrls: Italian North American Women & The Search For Identity (2013), in which I was the editor, and the second, a book of poems titled, Leftovers (2015). My writing was also published in the anthology, Post-Traumatically Stressed Feminist (2017). I’m currently writing two new books. The first is called The Guerrilla Feminist: A Search For Belonging On and Offline, and the second is a book of poems titled, Lift Me Out of the Wound.
I have an MLIS in Library & Information Science from University of Wisconsin-Madison, an MA in Women’s & Gender Studies from DePaul University, and a BS in Creative Writing from Edgewood College.
I’ve written some variation of a newsletter since my 2016 TinyLetter days. As a writer, I love working things through in this venue. I love searching for and connecting people with resources and interesting things. I enjoy writing about various topics, including: The Messiness of Disability Accommodations, Cults, MLMs, and White Women, The Anxiety & Terror of Being a Teenage Girl, What I Learned From Following 90s Figure Skaters on Instagram, and much more.
Publication schedule:
Essay + Links: every Friday at 10am CST
Book Nook (paid) first Wednesday of each month at 8am CST
This Week’s Rage & Softness (paid): every Sunday at 10am CST
Ask Guerrilla Femme (paid): sporadically, no more than once a month
