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Hip Mama #51

pp. 32, 11"x8.5", saddle stitch, b&w

The Space &Time Issue! Stories from the mothership include navigating step-momdom, why "special" sucks, and an interview with Rad Dad.

$5.95

My Baby Rides the Short Bus

344 pp., 9x6, perfect bound

From the publisher:

"In lives where there is a new diagnosis or drama every day, the stories in this collection provide parents of "special needs" kids with a welcome chuckle, a rock to stand on, and a moment of reality held far enough from the heart to see clearly. Featuring works by "alternative" parents who have attempted to move away from mainstream thought--or remove its influence altogether--this anthology, taken as a whole, carefully considers the implications of parenting while raising children with disabilities.

From professional writers to novice storytellers including Robert Rummel-Hudson, Ayun Halliday, and Kerry Cohen, this assortment of authentic, shared experiences from parents at the fringe of the fringes is a partial antidote to the stories that misrepresent, ridicule, and objectify disabled kids and their parents."

$20.00

Rad Dad #21

By Tom Moniz

pp. 32, 7"x5.5", saddle stitch

Rad Dad is the labor of love from father, activist, and radical parent Tony Moniz. A collaborative zine offering various view points from moms, dads, queer, single, and non traditional parents, contributors challenge traditional roles, patriarchy, and the status quo. Issue #21 focuses on the Occupy Movement. "Bringing Baby to the Black Bloc" ,"Wheels on the Bus to Occupy DC" and "Securing my Children to the Movement" from writers Sonya Austin, Burke Stansbury, and Erik Davis express the need for the integration of children in radical movements and how to create an inclusive and safe activist community. Going beyond the scope of current movements are essays regarding the issues inherit in Occupy and how these relate to children, from equal education to keeping your daughter off the stripper pole.

$4.00

Rad Dad: Dispatches From the Frontiers of Fatherhood

By Tomas Moniz

200 pp, 8x5, perfect bound

With grace, honesty, and strength, Rad Dad's writers tackle all the issues that other parenting guides are afraid to touch: the brutalities, beauties, and politics of the birth experience; the challenges of parenting on an equal basis with mothers; the tests faced by gay and transgendered fathers;and parental confrontations with war, violence, racism, and incarceration. Rad Dad is for every father out in the real world trying to parent in ways that are loving, meaningful, authentic and ultimately revolutionary

$15.00