Name: Kitty Stryker on Sustaining Your Activism: Standing Up Without Falling Down
Start: 2026-01-27T17:00:00-08:00
End: 2026-01-27T19:30:00-08:00
Location: Commonwealth Club World Affairs

Kitty Stryker on Sustaining Your Activism: Standing Up Without Falling Down

** Advance Tickets Required to Attend! **
https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2026-01-27/kitty-stryker-sustaining-your-activism-standing-without-falling-down
Balancing activism with personal life and relationships can be difficult. At this crucial time in our history, activists are burning out when we need them the most. That's why this event with Kitty Stryker, who has spent two decades as a direct activist and a street medic during radical actions, is so timely.
Stryker, author of Love Rebels: How I Learned to Burn It Down Without Burning Out, has both burned it down and burned herself out. Trying to "show up bravely" as a leader despite exhaustion, she almost destroyed herself.
But now she says, "Activism does not demand martyrdom to be effective ... it's important to have some fun together!" She'll show us how to build effective teams composed of people with different backgrounds, interests, and abilities, while managing the inevitable internal conflicts. She will discuss how to inspire powerful action while keeping the team safe, how to nurture yourself and others while staying in the fight, how to make your most effective contribution, and how to decide when you truly need to take a break.
So join us on January 27, meet others interested in activism, and maybe even have dinner afterward at a nearby restaurant!
Doors: 5pm
Event: 5:30pm
About the Speaker
Kitty Stryker is the author of Love Rebels: How I Learned to Burn It Down Without Burning Out, three books on consent, and articles about activism and politics. She founded the Ladies High Tea and Pornography Society in London and has been a radical activist since she was ten.
ORGANIZER
Eric Siegel
NOTES
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