Hip Mama: The Parenting Zine is an American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 Alternative Press Award-winning quarterly periodical covering the culture and politics of parenting

Parenting

Parenting is the process of promoting and supporting the physical, emotional, social, and intellectual development of a child from infancy to adulthood...

. The magazine is widely credited with launching the contemporary mothers' movement.

The first issue of Hip Mama was published in December, 1993, in Oakland, California

Oakland, California

Oakland is a major West Coast port city on San Francisco Bay in the U.S. state of California. It is the eighth-largest city in the state with a 2010 population of 390,724...

 by founding editor Ariel Gore

Ariel Gore

Ariel Gore is a journalist, novelist, nonfiction author, and teacher. She is the founding editor/publisher of Hip Mama, an Alternative Press Award-winning publication covering the culture and politics of motherhood...

 as a forum for single, urban, and feminist

Feminism

Feminism is a collection of movements aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights and equal opportunities for women. Its concepts overlap with those of women's rights...

 mothers. Gore edited Hip Mama for 15 years. The magazine, now edited and published by Kerlin Richter, is based in Portland, Oregon

Portland, Oregon

Portland is a city located in the Pacific Northwest, near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 Census, it had a population of 583,776, making it the 29th most populous city in the United States...

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