• The front cover of "How to Say No" written and illustrated by Louie Läuger, published by Polar Embassy, against a light turquoise background. Around the title are illustrated flowers.
  • The back cover of "How to Say No" by Louie Läuger for Polar Embassy, against a bright turquoise background. On the top of the booklet is a heart that says "Saying no is hard!", and below is a cat saying "Learning to say no can feel messy." At the bottom is a trophy that says "Said no and used it as a full sentence."
  • An open page from Louie Läuger's "How to Say No" published by Polar Embassy, against a light turquoise background. The page has the title "Saying No in Activism", with a character saying "I'm tired", and a few responses to the question "are you coming to this protest?": "I don't have the energy to protest today", and "sorry, crowds actually make me a bit anxious".
  • An open page from Louie Läuger's "How to Say No" published by Polar Embassy, against a light turquoise background. The page has the title "Saying No during the date", with a few suggestions like "I'm sorry to cut our date short, but I want to leave." and "I don't want to kiss you."
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Workbook

How to Say No

How to Say No

Written and illustrated by Louie Läuger

Format

A download link for the E-Book as a PDF is emailed after checkout.

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The Map of the Maybe Zone from Louie Läuger's How to Say No workbook. There is a "desert of delayed answers", "insecurity island", "glacier of gut feelings", "forest of feat" and "sea of dealing with shame and guilt."

Saying no is hard!

In this illustrated zine, artist Louie Läuger takes you through their process of saying no to friends, in activism, on dates, and other situations:

  • checking in with yourself
  • compromises, explanations and vulnerability
  • the act of saying no
  • how to do "no aftercare"

Along with many helpful suggestions and encouraging insights, they left lots of space for you to add your own ideas and notes so you can practice saying no!

  • How many pages?

    48 A5 pages

  • Language?

    English

  • Printed in Berlin on recycled paper

    Support your local printer, baby!

Materials

The workbooks are printed on 100% recycled, FSC-certified paper.

Pollution footprint

We aim for the smallest possible footprint from our products' production, transport, and consumption. 

Producing each workbook emits about 0,10 kg CO2e, which our supplier offsets. We share more about this below.

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All of our products ship to the following countries: 

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Dimensions

A5 (148 x 210mm)

Good to know

For the E-Book: one download per order. Copying, distributing, printing, or otherwise sharing the e-book is not permitted.

Our Footprint

About 0,10 kg CO2e is emitted from producing each workbook.

Our supplier offsets these emissions via ocean protection and reforestation projects via ClimatePartner.

More about our supply chain
A portrait of the artist Louie Läuger, against a dark green background with artwork on a wall. Around their shoulders are cute flower and sparkly illustrations, and they are wearing a colorful print shirt. They have light skin, a shaved head of brown hair, and brown eyes.

About the Author

Louie (they/them) works somewhere in the intersection of illustration, education and feminism. They most enjoy drawing things that make people think, “oh wow, I finally understand that!” when they read and look at it. When Louie isn't illustrating, they're probably doing pottery. You can find them on Instagram @tenderrebellions.

They also illustrated our workbook Einfach Gendern!

Photo Credit: Louie Läuger

Customer Reviews

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Ariane F.
Great read!

Compact and likeable. I love the style and the examples and learned some things about communicating your own boundaries. Definitely recommend it :)

Thank you so much for the review, Ariane! We're so glad you enjoy it ✨

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A.
very well done

This is very important booklet. And beautifully illustrated. Thank you for publishing this.

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Roxane Ghadjar
Important

This is such a good book to have! I got it for my younger cousin but I read it first and it was a great read. There's no age to learn to say no! Very cute illustrations too.

Thanks for the review, Roxane! We hope your cousin enjoys it too. ✨

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Azur
Such a helpful daily reminder ❤️

Thanks a lot for this amazing piece of work and self-kindness! Seeing my thoughts, fears and dilemma all mapped out in such a sweet way really helped me in my own "boundary journey". I warmly recommend to any insecure people pleasure struggling with "no"!

Hey Azur, we're so glad you enjoy the workbook, thank you for the review!