"We're not waiting around for the revolution... We're practicing direct democracy, one decision at a time."
Prepared for the Occupy Calgary General Assembly at the Old Y Centre for Community Organizations.
"When I was trying to quit drinking I felt really alone. I couldn't imagine how anyone did it. I wish I'd had a zine like this - that showed that it was possible, adn that there were all different kinds of things that could work for different people, and that it was possible, and worth it." - from back cover
"This zine constitutes a demand on both mainstream society and the alternative communities we create to hold a space for the very human, very necessary and inevitable work of grieving, mourning, and (when the time is right), helping each other to continue living in spite of tremendous loss." - from introduction
"Cindy Crabb's new book The Encyclopedia of Doris offers stories, essays and interviews from 2001 to 2011. Inside are issues 19-28 of the beloved adn internationally distributed, feminist, autobiographical zine Doris, along with a bunch of never before published writing." (from the back).