This week I spiraled out with author, speaker, curator & librarian Lachrista Greco! (@theguerrillafeminist, Olive Grrrls: Italian North American Women & The Search For Identity)  Lachrista has published several books with another coming soon,  is doing incredible work around preventing and coping with digital violence, and is all-around brilliant, passionate, hilarious and so relatable.  We talked growing up with learning disabilities and the crushing ableism in the American education system, the horrors of adolescence, including crushes and mean girls, the agony of being considered boring, anxiety and obsessive thinking about what others think of you, shame embodied as frat-bro Yeti,  and the power of learning self-advocacy as an antidote to shame.   Follow Lachrista's incredible Instagram @theguerillafeminist, check her website lachristagreco.com  to learn more about the wonderful work she's doing,  and subscribe to her Substack:  lachrista.substack.com!    You can follow me on Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok @elykreimendahl, and the pod on Twitter and Instagram @podshamespiral, where I'm regularly posting fun video clips of especially juicy or hilarious moments from the episodes.   And we now have a Patreon! Please check it out, and if you've been enjoying the pod, PATRONIZE US! https://www.patreon.com/ShameSpiralPod Audio Engineer/Editor: Sarah Gabrielli (check out her amazing podcast about the last lesbian bars in America @cruisingpod on Instagram and TikTok and listen here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cruising-a-lesbian-bar-road-trip/id1585850925 Original Music: Shadwick Wilde, Instagram and Twitter: @shadwickwilde Cover Art: Cassidy Kulhanek, Instagram, Twitter and TikTok: @heavenlygrandpa New episodes every Tuesday! Don't forget to subscribe, review and please leave those five shining stars!  twitter.com/podshamespiral instagram.com/podshamespiral instagram.com/elykreimendahl tiktok.com/@elykreimendahl twitter.com/elykreimendahl