Welcome to Rage & Softness!

New name, same-ish content

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My darlings! Welcome to Rage & Softness! We’ve got a new vibe! We’ve got a new logo! We’ve got the same (great?) content!

The title “Rage & Softness” had been the tagline for The Guerrilla Feminist newsletter, “culture critiques from Rage & Softness.” The new tagline is now, “A journey through duality from an abolitionist feminist librarian lens.” I’m interested in duality, in liminality, in the both/and, in the extremes of one end of a spectrum and the other. I’m interested in holding these complexities and nuances and writing about them. Feel free to check out the new (and updated) “About” page!

I’ve already been doing this, but I’m excited to do so more explicitly (perhaps?). Everything here will look mostly the same as it was, although I am interested in what you all would like to see here. I’m also interested in what paid subscribers would like to see. Please feel free to respond to this either in the comments or via email.

I’ll keep it short for this week, but thank you all for being here and supporting me and my writing/work/etc. It doesn’t go unnoticed. I love having this space and appreciate how I get to interact with you here.

In love and solidarity,
Lachrista

1. Build Worlds Not Jails -

   radical love letters

2. Lessons From Political Prisoners - Kelly Hayes

3. “Some Of Us Just Fall” examines the body as an ecosystem and rejects the myth of curability - Jacqueline Alnes interviewing Polly Atkin

4. Nobody “Earns” a Billion Dollars. We Need a Wealth Tax - C.J. Polychroniou

5. What USC Got Wrong When It Canceled Its Valedictorian’s Speech - David Kaye

6. Why isn’t PEN America paying its incarcerated literary prize winners? - Alex Tretbar and Natalye Childress

7. Clean Air Club Is Organizing Musicians to Make COVID-Safer Shows and Spaces - Mary Retta

8. The War on Health in Gaza - Adam Gaffney

9. How Kathy Acker’s bodybuilding fueled her raucous art - Alex McMillan

10. this song

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