Awards

• Winner of Foreword INDIES Finalist (Family & Relationships) 2025 (United States)

Overview

Balancing a devotion to activism with personal relationships can be incredibly difficult. Kitty Stryker shares her experience as an activist, street medic, and relationship educator to help others pursue the important work while maintaining healthy relationships and without burning out. Both a call to action and a candid memoir, Stryker is open about what she has learned and her perceived limitations. Recognizing that it can feel overwhelming to know how to effectively make change, she encourages readers to consider how they can best advocate for causes they believe in, presenting different types of activism, and urging readers to honestly examine their own hesitations. She also emphasizes that without taking care of our interpersonal relationships, many people burn out of activism at the very time when we need more people on the ground, and offers practical strategies to avoid this and to encourage healthy relationships.

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Author:   Kitty Stryker ,  carla joy bergman
Publisher:   Thornapple Press
Imprint:   Thornapple Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.30cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 20.30cm
Weight:   0.030kg
ISBN:  

9781990869730

ISBN 10:   1990869734
Pages:   204
Publication Date:   17 October 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction Part One: Get Grounded Chapter 1: What is a Love Rebel, Anyway? Chapter 2: Power Dynamics: Acknowledging Disparity Chapter 3: Self- Care Can Be Mutual Aid Part Two: Get Personal Chapter 4: Radical Families (And Their Feuds) Chapter 5: Sailing the USS Ownership Part Three: Get Involved Chapter 6: Where Do We Start? Chapter 7: Protest On the Streets Chapter 8: Risky Business: Navigating Different Strategies Part Four: Get Organized Chapter 9: With Great Power…(On Leaders) Chapter 10: ...Comes Great Responsibility (On Stepping Up) Chapter 11: Organize, Organize, Organize Chapter 12: Trash Fire: When Things Go Wrong Chapter 13: Love Rebels Glossary Resources How To Ask For Help Further Reading Index

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Author Information

Kitty Stryker has been working on defining and creating a consent culture for over a decade. Based in Berkeley, CA, she’s the editor of Ask: Building Consent Culture and author of Ask Yourself: The Consent Culture Workbook, Say More: Consent Conversations for Teens and Love Rebels: How I Learned to Burn It Down Without Burning Out. She is especially interested in bringing conversations about consent into everyday life. carla joy bergman is the author of Joyful Militancy, editor of Radiant Voices and Trust Kids!, and the co-founder of the online worker-run art, culture and politics journal CAW.

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