[2] She was an original member of the Yippies, the Youth International Party, a 1960s counter culture and satirical anti-war group, along with fellow radicals Anita and Abbie Hoffman, Nancy Kurshan and Jerry Rubin, and husband Stew Albert[3][4] Judy received her nickname, "Gumbo," from Black Panther Party leader Eldridge Cleaver.

[7] In Spring of 1968 she joined the Yippies in Chicago to run a Pig named Pigasus for President at the protests during the Democratic National Convention.

Readers join Judy in a journey of personal discovery as she leaves a broken marriage in 1968 and immerses herself in the thriving protest and radical democracy movements of Berkeley.

She shares about the evolution of the Black Panther Party and the Yippie movement, including the leadership of the protests at the 1968 Chicago Convention and other areas of radical direct action.

She also offers a candid look at her own personal evolution, finding herself and confronting the realities of sexism and inequality – even among her fellow activists.