Cindy Crabb provides a DIY tour of the promise and perils of sexual relationships in Learning Good Consent. Building ethical relationships is one of the most important things we can do, but sex, consent, abuse, and support can get complicated. This collection is an indispensable guide to both preventing sexual violence and helping its survivors to heal. Includes a foreword by Kiyomi Fujikawa and Jenna Peters-Golden.
“Whether or not you think you need it, whether or not you’re a survivor, or dating a survivor, or even having sex, you would probably benefit from reading this book. And the people you choose to be intimate with will probably thank you for making their safety a priority.” —Nomy Lamm, Feminist Review
“Learning Good Consent … offers powerful, complicated information (instead of shallow questions and uncomplicated answers). This book speaks to those who are unlearning silence as a safety/communication strategy.” —Jen Cross, make/shift
“Essential reading.” —Colin Atrophy Hagendorf, author of Slice Harvester
“What this book does is to stress consent: not ‘no means no,’ or even ‘yes means yes,’ but ‘Do you want me to stay here with you?’ ‘Are you here?’ ‘I thought I wanted this, but I’m not sure now.’ ‘Do you think we should take this farther?’ I’m moved that this book is here. It matters.” —Alison Piepmeier, author of Girl Zines: Making Media, Doing Feminism
Cindy Crabb is an author of the influential, feminist, autobiographical ‘zine Doris, which has been anthologized into two books: The Encyclopedia of Doris: Stories, Essays and Interviews and Doris: An Anthology 1991–2001. Her essays and analyses of the impact of her writing have appeared in numerous books and magazines, including: The Riot Grrrl Collection; Stay Solid! A Radical Handbook for Youth; Girl Zines: Making Media, Doing Feminism; and We Don’t Need Another Wave: Dispatches from the Next Generation of Feminists.
Cindy Crabb: Cindy Crabb is an author of the influential, feminist, autobiographical zine "Doris," which has been anthologized into two books; "The Encyclopedia of Doris: Stories, Essays and Interviews" (Doris Press, 2011), and "Doris: An Anthology 1991-2001" (Microcosm Publishing, 2004). Her essays and analyses of the impact of her writing have appeared in numerous books and magazines, including: "The Riot Grrrl Collection" (The Feminist Press at CUNY, 2014), "Stay Solid! A Radical Handbook for Youth" (AK Press, 2013), "Girl Zines, Making Media, Doing Feminism" (NYU Press, 2009) and "We Don t Need Another Wave: Dispatches from the Next Generation of Feminists" (Seal Press, 2006). Crabb has presented her work as a college sponsored speaker across the United States and Canada, including The Radcliffe/Harvard Schlesinger Library, Pratt University, Evergreen 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 miniture horses, sheep, dogs and a cat."
