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Love Rebels: How I Learned to Burn It Down Without Burning Out is part candid memoir, part tool kit for sustainable activism, learned the hard way through years of direct action. Author Kitty Stryker visits North Branch to share her experiences as a community organizer and street medic. Books will be available for purchase at the event from Mrs. Dalloway's.
About Love Rebels:
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.
In what is 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.
About Kitty:
Kitty Stryker is a writer, activist, and authority on developing a consent culture in alternative communities. She was the founder of ConsentCulture.com, a website that ran for many years as a hub for LGBT/kinky/poly folks looking for a sex-critical approach to relationships and which became the foundation for her first book, "Ask: Building Consent Culture", released in 2017 to rave reviews. She is an ex-sex worker and porn performer who moved into journalism; she is currently freelance writing with four books under her belt, and plans to start number five, "A Good Kid's Guide to Rebellion".
Kitty co-founded and hosted the artsy sexy party Kinky Salon London for several years, as well as creating the award-winning Ladies High Tea and Pornography Society, co-founding Struggalo Circus (a group of activist Juggalos), and acting as head of cosplay for queer gaming convention GaymerX. Kitty toured internationally presenting at universities and conferences about feminism, sex work, body positivity, queer politics, and more. Now, she's nesting in Oakland, California with her two cats, Camus and Bataille, made famous on her #importantcatupdates. She identities as a social justice arcane trickster.
AGE GROUP: | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Authors, Books & Writing |
