Giving it up
Subtitle: the relations of a celibate slut
By: Sarah Mae Allard
Edition: updated 2nd edition 2015, new cover, additions
Publisher: The author
Published: 2015
Place of publication: [Brooklyn, NY?]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 50
Subjects: Celibacy; Self-acceptance; Sex; Sexual relationships
Description: A self-reflection on past sexual relationships and an account of the author's journey to self love by practicing celibacy and finding real freedom in self-control. Included towards the end of the zine are three poems about self-love. Inside are also hand drawn images and fortune cookie banners. There is an excerpt of Communion: the female search for love by Bell Hooks as well as quotes by prominent women, such as Marie Curie and Shelley Winters. The cover is colorful and shows a blonde woman holding a tornado in her palm.
Notes: Title from cover.

Includes bibliographical reference (page 50).

Purchased from the author at the NYC Feminist Zine Fest in 2015.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Celibacy as a quest for self agency; title: Chapter One / Not Just Treading but Submerging in Those Familiar Murky Waters; title: Chapter Two / Monogamy and why it makes everything Worse; title: Chapter Three / Your Dream Must be Bigger Than your fear; title: Self Love Poems / Airport Nancy; title: Self Love Poems / The Mermaid and the Lighthouse; title: Self Love Poems / One Day Terrors and Waking Loves; title: Works Cited