Cindy Crabb
author, zine writer, oral historian
ABOUT CINDYCindy is the author of the forthcoming (looking for an agent / publisher) Bearded Lady Truckstop Cafe: An Oral History of the San Francisco Dyke Scene. She is the author/editor of three zine anthologies, Learning Good Consent: On Healthy Relationships and Survivor Support, Encyclopedia of Doris, and Doris Doris Doris: An Anthology of zines and other stuff 1991-2001. Her zine Doris was highly influential in the third wave feminist zine culture of the ‘90s, and her journals and papers are achieved at the at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard's Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America.
In the early 2000s, she was the singer in the band Astrid Oto.
She is currently a trauma therapist, living in Pittsburgh PA
Cindy’s work is characterized by exploring secrets and vulnerabilities for the purpose of linking personal experiences to issues of systemic oppression.
Learning Good Consent: on Healthy Relationships and Survivor Support has been translated in part or whole into French, Hebrew, German, Flemish and Spanish.
