Book Review: Love Rebels (How I Learned to Burn it Down without Burning Out)(OT)

Love Rebels (How I Learned to Burn it Down without Burning Out), by Kitty Stryker (Thornapple Press, $24.95, 193pp, 2025)

Love Rebels: A Book about Activism and Relationships

Love Re-bels' or Love Re'-bels? Reality favors the former. Or the latter. Or both. The answer may be found in the final chapter. Or the first.

Intriguing Title on the Cover (and something very intriguing - the book block)

The front cover is more informative than at first glance with letters of only two colors, red and black, red being the color of the title and black being the subtitle, a black flag replete with a cut-out heart and the flag nearly cut to pieces, and some letters with white smudgeons and other marks. 

The most memorable visual is the book block, the edges of the pages (all of them), this time printed with "Keep Loving, Keep Fighting."

Publishers should adopt book blocks! They would help bookstores and private libraries plus I like them!

A powerful, uplifting, well-organized and conversationally written conversation to boost the spirits of activists and to offer newly minted ones approaches to follow, Love Rebels provides helpful hints for activists, often taken from the author's experiences with details of her own life as a queer woman. The reader has a big sister in author Kitty Stryker.

I especially like the half dozen or so questions at the end of each chapter that bring out the main points. 

Boundaries, families, four-letter words, protests, arrests, all are covered in a stream of consciousness style that makes for easy reading and since there is a plethora of material about the subject matter but not with the style, Love Rebels is welcome.