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Podcast: Commonwealth Club of California Podcast
Episode: Kitty Stryker on Sustaining Your Activism: Standing Up Without Falling Down
Description: 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...