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Hip Mama uncensored subscription drive

KEEP HIP MAMA UNCENSORED The original alternative parenting magazine. Eat well. Make art. Live free.

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Hip Mama uncensored subscription drive

Hip Mama uncensored subscription drive

Hip Mama uncensored subscription drive

Hip Mama uncensored subscription drive

Hip Mama uncensored subscription drive

KEEP HIP MAMA UNCENSORED The original alternative parenting magazine. Eat well. Make art. Live free.

KEEP HIP MAMA UNCENSORED The original alternative parenting magazine. Eat well. Make art. Live free.

KEEP HIP MAMA UNCENSORED The original alternative parenting magazine. Eat well. Make art. Live free.

KEEP HIP MAMA UNCENSORED The original alternative parenting magazine. Eat well. Make art. Live free.

Ariel Gore
Ariel Gore
Ariel Gore
Ariel Gore
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Oakland, United States
$2,735 USD 59 backers
18% of $15,000 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal

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Hip Mama loves you.

Thank you for bringing Hip Mama back with your beautiful support! Print media is embattled in this era of social media and digital ADD, to be sure. But print lives, thanks to you, and we've managed to relaunch the magazine. (It turns 21 this fall!)

This year, we put out three new issues of Hip Mama, publishing dozens of amazing writers and artists--underrepresented mothers and others whose stories and images have gotten us all thinking and doing and feeling better about being ourselves.

We also took a huge distribution hit because of our defiance of American anti-breastfeeding censorship conventions. We chose Barcelona-based artist Ana Alvarez Errecalde's breastfeeding-in-costume self-portrait, "Symbiosis," for the cover of issue #55, but some distributors, libraries, and retail outlets took offense. Even after we created a newsstand edition for them, many refused to carry the magazine and some cancelled their standing order. (Read more about the cover controversy here: http://hipmamazine.com/207/ )

While we love newsstand visibility when we're not being censored, the experience underlined the need to stay connected directly with our readers through subscriptions. Hip Mama now relies almost exclusively on subscribers to pay the printer.

So we're looking to raise $15,000 towards our 2015 printing costs. (Everyone who works on Hip Mama does so as a volunteer, so your dollars don't go to any salaries, in case you're wondering.) Each issue of the magazine--printed on recycled paper in  a Union shop--costs $5,000. Postage runs us another $1,000.

So please do pick up a new subscription or renew the one you've got. Throw in a donation if you have some extra cash. Hawthorne Books is supporting us by offering new Hip Mama subscribers a copy of Ariel Gore's memoir, The End of Eve, at half price! So drop $30 now and you'll get both a subscription and a book. A steal!

Thank you for your continued support.

Let's keep Hip Mama uncensored and in print!

*All contributors $20 and above are eligible to enter the Hip Mama & Unchaste Readers 2014 Writing Contest without any additional reading fee. Read the contest guidelines right here: http://hipmamazine.com/hip-mama-unchaste-readers-announce-writing-contest/
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Love & thanks

$5 USD
If you've already got a subscription, you can help with a $5 tip anyway. We'll love you for it!
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December 2014
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Stickers

$10 USD
We'll send you some cute "Hip Mama" and/or "Print Lives" stickers that will make you so happy!
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December 2014
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Hip Mama 2014-15 subscription

$20 USD
Subscription to the new Hip Mama. Choose from a new subscription starting with issue #56 or an extension of your current subscription.
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December 2014
20 claimed

Hip Mama & Unchaste Contest

$20 USD
Did you know? All contributors at the $20 and above levels get the subscription to Hip Mama AND are eligible to submit to the Hip Mama & Unchaste Readers Series Writing Contest without any additional reading fee. First Prize includes $200 cash, airfare to Portland, Oregon (up to $300) to read in the Unchaste Readers Series, casual home accommodation in Portland, and publication in Hip Mama. Read more here: http://hipmamazine.com/hip-mama-unchaste-readers-announce-writing-contest/
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February 2015
10 claimed

4 zine pack magic

$25 USD
Get the first 3 issues of the new Hip Mama and Ariel's Scout Book, On The Mend, for $25. We'll pay the shipping.
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December 2014
1 out of 50 of claimed

THE END OF EVE & Hip Mama

$30 USD
Get The End of Eve & a Hip Mama subscription. What?! Get 4 issues of the new Hip Mama and a copy of Ariel Gore's The End of Eve for $30. Shipping included.
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December 2014
20 claimed

Canada / Mexico Subscription

$35 USD
Yes it does cost us lots more to send zines to Canada and Mexico! We send it first class to make sure it gets to you.
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December 2014
2 claimed

Overseas subscription

$40 USD
Yes is does cost us lots more to send your magazines overseas, but we love it when it gets all the way to you!
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December 2014
1 claimed

Subscription & donation

$50 USD
Get your 4-issue subscription--new or renewal--and throw in an extra $30 as a donation.
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January 2015
1 claimed

The End of Eve, sub & donation

$100 USD
Get your copy of The End of Eve and a subscription as above, and throw in the extra $70 as a donation.
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December 2014
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6 Hip Mama gift subscriptions!

$100 USD
Take care of your entire holiday list in one swoop. Get 5 gift subscriptions and we'll throw in a 6th… all for $100.
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December 2014
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Tarot w/ Lasara Firefox Allen

$100 USD
Lasara gives tarot readings like you have never experienced. An intuitive reader for over 25 years, an ordained priestess for fifteen, and an NLP master practitioner and life coach for the last ten, Lasara has a stunning array of tools to bring to the table. Weaving together this dynamic array of techniques - NLP, subtle trance, hypnosis, and the magick of the cards - Lasara's readings are a deeply transformational experience. Reading via internet/video interface. In person if local to Lasara.
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January 2015
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New Year writing intensive

$165 USD
In addition to your Hip Mama subscription, join us for the New Year creative writing intensive with Ariel Gore. Read all about it here: http://literarykitchen.com/?page_id=25
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January 2015
2 out of 5 of claimed

Writing workshop with Ariel

$500 USD
Come and study creative writing in the Literary Kitchen in 2015. If you can donate $500 to Hip Mama, we'll give you a lifetime subscription to the magazine as well as free tuition to one of Ariel Gore's 8-week writing workshops in 2015. You can take the class yourself, give it to a friend, or even donate the tuition so a low-income mama can take the class. You'll be able to choose a spring, fall, or winter class.
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January 2015
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Founding Mama

$1,000 USD
What? Another opportunity to be a founding mama even though Hip Mama is turning 21?! Yes! Get all the perks listed here & your name forever listed in Hip Mama's masthead.
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December 2014
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Hip Mama back page ad

$1,100 USD
You know you need that full-color back-page ad you've been coveting.
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February 2015
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