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Cindy Crabb's zine Doris was highly influential in the third wave feminist zine culture of the 90s."I wanted to break open the secrets that isolate us," she writes, "the difficult secrets but also the small secret joys that keep us alive." Her memoirs …
Publications
Books
LEARNING GOOD CONSENT: ON HEALTHY RELATIONSHIP AND SURVIVOR SUPPORT, (AK Press, 2016).
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF DORIS / THINGS THAT HELP
DORIS: AN ANTHOLOGY of zines and other writing, 1991-2001 (contact me to purchase)
Podcasts / Radio
Living in This Queer Body: Your Curiosity Will Save You with Cindy Crabb
Cute little video about Doris (from an old Kickstarter campaign)
2015 WUNC Move Over Screens, Make Room For Zines
Articles / interviews
2023 - The Bakery Atlanta: Zine making, “Doris,” and the Heart of DIY
2017 - Teen Vogue How Jane Helped 11,000 Women Get Abortions When The Procedure Was Outlawed
2011 - Broken Pencil, Q&A: Cindy Crabb of Doris Zine
2006 - Punk Planet
Maximum Rock and Roll
Utne Reader,
Essays in the following compilations:
Power Within, in Perspectives On Anarchist Theory N.32, AK Press, 2021
Marius Mason interview, in Original Plumbing: The Best of Ten years of Trans Male Culture, The Feminist Press, 2019
Sick, in When Language Runs Dry: An Anthology for People with Chronic Pain and Their Allies, Mend My Dress Press, 2019
Doris #6 (excerpt), in The Riot Grrrl Collection. The Feminist Press, 2013
Healthy Relationships, in Stay Solid! A Radical Handbook for Youth, AK Press, 2013
Feminism…Anarchism…Anarchafeminism, in Perspectives On Anarchist Theory N.29, 2012
Zines as Public Pedagogy of Hope (featured in), Girl Zines: Making Media, Doing Feminism, New York University Press, 2009
The Chain Reaction of Unsilencing, in We Don’t Need Another Wave, Seal Press, 2006
Dear Inga, in The Zine Yearbook V.7, Soft Skull Press, 2003
Cindy at My House, in PEOPs: Portraits and Stories of People by Fly, Soft Skull Press, 2003
Tree House, in Despite Everything: A Cometbus Omnibus, 2002
Excerpts from DIY Anti-Depression Guide, in The Zine Yearbook V.5, Soft Skull Press, 2001
Interview featured in Experiencing Abortion: A Weaving Of Women’s Worlds, Routledge Press, 1997
Legions of people have been affected by Cindy’s unique ability to confront the symptoms of abuse .- Maximum Rock and Roll
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