Hip Mama 10th Anniversary Issue
The 10th Anniversary issue of Hip Mama is finallly out the door and wending its way to subscribers through the USPS bulk mail system.
So . . . Happy Birthday to me! You know, not me, Ariel, but me, Hip Mama. It's been 11 years since the zine was just a twinkle in my eye, 10 years since I launched it into the world as a real live zine-beyond-my-senior-project (OK, so it's been a little more than 10 years--but since when was Hip Mama actually on time? This is the 10th anniversary issue, dammit, and I will have my cake!)
Ten years of reader-written dreams, kick-ass adventures, and hard mama truths. Ten years of trying to decide whether to pay the printer or pay my rent. Ten years that started when my kid was in preschool and--yes she is--a freshman in high school.
{as cover girl in 1997 . . . }
Ten years from the nightmare of the "Family Values" campaign to the even bigger nightmare of its designers ruling the world--folks who never, ever got up in the middle of the night just to make sure the baby was still breathing--and if you just lost your job and you never had any child support, Well, don't be an economic girlie man!
But we are girlie men and boyish women and proud of it!
It's the election issue, too, so I sure hope y'all get it before the election . . . not that it's ever too late to say:
Fuck Bush.
To celebrate Hip Mama's anniversary (and, goddess willing, W.'s defeat), I am super-stoked to present to you The Essential Hip Mama: Writing from the Cutting Edge of Parenting--the best of 10 years of the only parenting mag worth the dead tree it's printed on--featuring new & vintage art & essays by Yo Mama, Ayun Halliday, Katheirne Arnoldi, Susan Ito, Yantra Bertelli, Fern Capella, Opal Palmer Adisa, and many more!
Hope to see you at one of the upcoming events. (Portland area mamas--I sure hope you have the November 17 birthday party on your calendar!)
Until then, girlie men & mama friends--stay brave & do good work.
xo, ariel
So . . . Happy Birthday to me! You know, not me, Ariel, but me, Hip Mama. It's been 11 years since the zine was just a twinkle in my eye, 10 years since I launched it into the world as a real live zine-beyond-my-senior-project (OK, so it's been a little more than 10 years--but since when was Hip Mama actually on time? This is the 10th anniversary issue, dammit, and I will have my cake!)
Ten years of reader-written dreams, kick-ass adventures, and hard mama truths. Ten years of trying to decide whether to pay the printer or pay my rent. Ten years that started when my kid was in preschool and--yes she is--a freshman in high school.
{as cover girl in 1997 . . . }
Ten years from the nightmare of the "Family Values" campaign to the even bigger nightmare of its designers ruling the world--folks who never, ever got up in the middle of the night just to make sure the baby was still breathing--and if you just lost your job and you never had any child support, Well, don't be an economic girlie man!
But we are girlie men and boyish women and proud of it!
It's the election issue, too, so I sure hope y'all get it before the election . . . not that it's ever too late to say:
Fuck Bush.
To celebrate Hip Mama's anniversary (and, goddess willing, W.'s defeat), I am super-stoked to present to you The Essential Hip Mama: Writing from the Cutting Edge of Parenting--the best of 10 years of the only parenting mag worth the dead tree it's printed on--featuring new & vintage art & essays by Yo Mama, Ayun Halliday, Katheirne Arnoldi, Susan Ito, Yantra Bertelli, Fern Capella, Opal Palmer Adisa, and many more!
Hope to see you at one of the upcoming events. (Portland area mamas--I sure hope you have the November 17 birthday party on your calendar!)
Until then, girlie men & mama friends--stay brave & do good work.
xo, ariel
posted by Contact at 3:48 PM
1 Comments:
Hip Mama changed my life.
i read it when i was 32, hoping to have a kid soon. I did, 3 years later, and, became a single mom in the process.
This book is for every mom, but, especially speaks to the crazy, wild ones like me.
thank you Ariel,
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