2/23/2023 0 Comments Young mamas ariel![]() ![]() ![]() There were feminist magazines, but many of them avoided parenting issues for their own righteous reasons. There were a lot of parenting magazines around at the time full of articles about how to choose the right sippy cup. I’d been a teen mom, single mom, welfare mom through college. LesFam: For folks who don’t know the backstory, how did Hip Mama begin?Īriel Gore: I started Hip Mama almost 20 years ago as my senior project at Mills College in Oakland, California. For those of you still with us here, LesFam talked with Ariel Gore about her plans: Joined by political editor Victoria Law, Rad Dad editor and writer Tomas Moniz, and Teen Mom NYC blogger Gloria Malone, Ariel Gore has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund the reincarnation of Hip Mama: The Original Alternative Parenting Magazine.īy now fans of Hip Mama have probably skipped over to Kickstarter to make a donation (a mere $20 wins you a 4-issue subscription). So it broke my literary heart when I heard last October that Hip Mama had taken a hiatus of unknown duration.Īnd then I squealed with delight (for real: I squealed) when I read that Ariel Gore, Hip Mama founder and editor-in-chief from 1993 to 2008, is coming back to retool and revive the magazine. Hip Mama became not only my most beloved print magazine but also my favorite gift to give to my family-making friends. What sweet relief to find a magazine that blended all that I had been: poet, feminist, activist, and general rabble-rouser with what I had become: mom. In the wee early months of my suburban lesbian parenthood, after swimming through a sea of glossy parenting magazines full of articles about which board books would grow my six-month-old’s brain faster, or how to up my sexy factor for the husband I didn’t have, I discovered Hip Mama: the Parenting Zine. ![]()
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