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.
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
Index
Kitty Stryker has been working on defining and creating a consent culture for over a decade. Based in Berkeley, CA, shes 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.
