Table Of Contents
features
6 BACKWARDS
Sarah Elizabeth Schantz isn’t your typical fairy tale step-mama.
8 SPECIAL SUCKS
Jennifer Curran challenges you to give her a sympathetic smile.
10 CONFESSIONS OF THE SUPER PREGNANT
Cerrisa Snethen goes a little Charlie Sheen and bares all.
12 COHERENT TO OURSELVES AT LEAST
TT Jaz reveals snapshots through time.
14 JUST ONE MORE DAY
Victoria Law shares the story of one mama who beats the system
and wins her son back.
16 THIS HERE IS ONE RAD DAD
Amanda Englund interviews Tomas Moniz, creator of one super
sweet zine.
18 MONO-REALISM IS BORING
Rhea Wolf is a bonafied witch and strives to inspire new
dimensions of reality for her daughters.
20 THOUGHTS ON SPACE AND TIME
Gwen Lewis has some things to say about this here solar system
of ours.
22 10:15 ON A SATURDAY NIGHT
Samantha Updegrave feels the space between “good” mothers
and “bad” mothers.
24 BIOLOGICAL STOPWATCH
Heather Philpot feels the tick of the clock, for both her ovaries
and her husband’s life.
26 TOO MUCH TIME
Emily Westerholm waits and waits and waits.
columns & departments
3 EDITOR’S TRIP
4 HIP MAMA NEWS
28 REVIEWS
Awesome Future
The Best We Could Do
Rad Dad: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Fatherhood
Icaraus at the Edge of Time
Space Neighbors
They Might Be Giants
30 POETRY by
Tasha Poslaniec
Seth Michelson
Ellen Wade Beals
Risa Denenberg
INSIDE COVER & 32
Pregnant Butch by AK Sumers
