Raising Hell
Series: Mamaphiles, no. 4; Mamaphiles
Publisher: Confluence Media Collective
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Grand Junction, CO
Language: eng
Number of pages: 118
Subjects: Parenting; Single mothers; Married women; Mothers; Fathers; Stay-at-home mothers; Hispanic Americans; African Americans; Asian Americans; White people; Political activists
Description: Mamaphiles: Raising Hell includes contributions from radical parents on their experiences with childrearing, often in the context of political and radical identities. This zine contains poetry and prose that addresses such as mental health/depression and parenting, political activism, literacy, home-schooling, creativity and independence, divorce, single parenting, and poverty. Topics include the story of one family's detention in Israel, a mother's struggle to go to graduate school and deal with an unhappy child, a longtime activist's description of things he learned from being a father, and a mother's loving description of her loud and boisterous son. Accompanying the text are bios of the contributors and several photographs.
Table of contents: title: Cover art  -- Rachel Galindo / Tenacious; title: Introduction --; title: QUESTIONS --; title: Raising hell: for Ella, my daughter, who asks why?  -- Tomas Moniz / Rad Dad; title: Shoe Tossing  -- Rahula Janowksi / Joybringer; title: Poems I  -- Noemi Martinez / Hermana, Resist; title: THE THANK YOU GAME --; title: From NOLA and back  -- Charlie / The Nose Knows; title: junction rising!  -- connie murillo / The peep show; title: What no one wants to say  -- Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie / Mother nature; title: REMEMBERING --; title: Driving in the car wtih my mother  -- Raye Tibbitts / The bath; title: Remember  -- Anna Rose; title: PAPER AND INK --; title: Learning to raise hell in a different way  -- Victoria Law / Tenacious; title: Getting my creativity mama self on  -- Heather Jackson / madiburl and mindfuck revolutions; title: Reading the revolution at bedtime  -- Mariah Boone / Lone star ma; title: Acrostic poems  -- Jessica Mills (joined by Emma-Joy Montana) / My mother wears combat boots; title: THE BATTLE --; title: Fighting for your mama vision  -- Trula Breckinridge / Positive emergence; title: Learning the hard way : activist lessons for parent hood  -- redguard / Absent cause; title: Just single, sans motherhood, sort of   -- Angela Morrill / I always wanted to learn tai chi; title: LIL' REBELS --; title: "He get it from his MAMA"  -- Lamesha Melton / Cocoa/Puss zine; title: Raising a fangirl  -- Robin Dutton-Cookston / Apron strings; title: The curse of mothers  -- Christina-Marie Wright  / Gonzo parenting zine; title: #331  -- Celia C. Perez / I dreamed I was assertive; title: MAKING CHANGES --; title: Taking to the streets  -- Kate Haas / Miranda; title: Raising hell with the elephants  -- Brandon McClendon-Rose / Viva love; title: Raising hell with my identity  -- Laurel Ripple-Carpenter / CUNTastic; title: Screw stages, this is real life  -- Corbin Lewars / Reality mom; title: Changing the script  -- Regina Walker / Recovering me; title: Where the fuck am I?  -- Katie Kaput / Night cookies; title: FAMILY EMOTIONS --; title: Family day  -- Robert Trujillo / SS; title: Poems II   -- Noemi Martinez / Hermana, resist; title: Stress and frustration / -- -- Nic Ramirez-Riesen / La dama zine; title: What the fuck is yoga and who took my forty-ounce?  -- Sky Cosby / Pirate papa : an anarcho-green journal of D(o)-I(t)-Y(ourself) Parenting; title: Because I contain multitudes  -- Coleen Murphy / Once upon a photobooth/the mama calendar; title: DIVIDING LINES --; title: Raising hell  -- Anna Westly / Habit; title: Poems III  -- Noemi Martinez / Hermana, resist; title: Everybody has to write their own history because if you don't they will write it for you  -- China Martens / The future generation; title: The real deal  -- Korinne / wants to make a zine; title: This is not a hotel  -- Mai'a Williams / Revolutionary motherhood zine; title: On losing your way and finding it (maybe)  -- Katie Kaput / Night cookies; title: BIOGRAPHIES --