Supportencourages everyone to take a step back, listen, think, and talk about sex, consent, violence, and abuse. If you or someone you know have ever been assaulted or victimized, how to be an ally can be confusing. These words and the connection they offer can help. With ideas and encouragement to help yourself and others cope with, prevent, and end sexual violence and abuse, this collection of personal experiences, advice, guest articles, and comic excerpts wants to help. This new edition turns the popular zine by Cindy Crabb into a book. Cover illustration by Cristy C. Road.
...palm-on-the-stovetop stuff...I'd heartily recommend this to anyone who's nursing any sort of brain wound. -
Zine Thug Takes the medium and pushes it in a new, desperately needed direction... will help you understand that you are not alone. -
Wonkavision An incredibly inspiring and empowering resource with lots of different perspectives and strategies and experiences -
Maximum Rocknroll You would probably benefit from reading this and the people you choose to be intimate with will probably thank you for making their safety a priority. -
Feminist ReviewCindy Crabbis the author of the highly influential feminist and autobiographical zineDoris, which has been anthologized into two books:The Encyclopedia of Doris: Stories, Essays and Interviews(Doris Press, 2011) andDoris: An Anthology 1991-2001(Microcosm Publishing, 2004). She has presented her work as a college-sponsored speaker across the United States and Canada, including The Radcliffe/Harvard Schlesinger Library, Pratt University, Evergreen State University, The New School for Social Research, New Paltz, and the Guelph Resource Centre for Gender Empowerment and Diversity. She lives in Rutland, Ohio with her sister, two miniature horses, sheep, dogs, and a cat.