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more mamaphiles mumbling
Sep. 27th, 2003 09:08 pmoh my goodness.
I just spent a mighty long time entering many, many emails by hand to send out the mamaphiles press release to the entire list from ye olde hipmama - you know? a list was created in the final days, by some kind volunteer, I forget who, but it was paula kh who emailed it to me last year when I lost my whole address book, and anyhow, I'll bet there is an easier and better way to do it than cutting and pasting each and every address at once, but that is the only way I know and now I am aching.
it was weird to read so many old user names. one that I didn't see was sugar. I miss that woman.
a good third of the emails bounced back. including some of y'all's. so, here is the press release for you:
Birth of a movement: Mamaphiles delivers
Mamaphiles is the collaborative effort of 32 women who are writers and
mothers. Each one writes and produces a publication called a zine, slang
for a self-published magazine. This collection of work was conceived in
cyber space at Mamaphonic.com, a web site meeting place for artist-mothers.
It was created with brainstorming, consensus, volunteer action and a
great deal of enthusiasm. There were no guidelines for having work
chosen and published: anyone submitting was included. The theme is ‘birth’
and the work interprets that theme from actual birth of a child to the
birth of the mother to the birth of a zine, and everything in between.
Contributing zinesters include the well-known Ariel Gore (Hip Mama),
Ayun Halliday (the East Village Inky) and Bee Lavender (A Beautiful
Final Tribute); and the not-so-well-known. All essayists contributed to
the editing, formatting, photocopying and paying for paper and postage.
Mamaphiles is a historical undertaking in the zine genre: it is 132
pages of all mother-perspective writing, and the women live all over the
country.
Taking nearly five months to complete, the project was carried on
through the particular challenges (childcare; employment, housing, and
time issues; book deals; mamas got pregnant, had babies, and even—sadly— a miscarriage) of seeing a work to completion for a mother. The process was longer than expected, as gestation sometimes is, but the contributors celebrate that process and the strength of their group accomplishment, just as a mother celebrates the birth of a child.
Mamaphiles is available at Mamas Unidas zine distribution, specializing in mother-written zines, at http://www.geocities.com/mamasunidasdistro,
and various independent bookstores.
I just spent a mighty long time entering many, many emails by hand to send out the mamaphiles press release to the entire list from ye olde hipmama - you know? a list was created in the final days, by some kind volunteer, I forget who, but it was paula kh who emailed it to me last year when I lost my whole address book, and anyhow, I'll bet there is an easier and better way to do it than cutting and pasting each and every address at once, but that is the only way I know and now I am aching.
it was weird to read so many old user names. one that I didn't see was sugar. I miss that woman.
a good third of the emails bounced back. including some of y'all's. so, here is the press release for you:
Birth of a movement: Mamaphiles delivers
Mamaphiles is the collaborative effort of 32 women who are writers and
mothers. Each one writes and produces a publication called a zine, slang
for a self-published magazine. This collection of work was conceived in
cyber space at Mamaphonic.com, a web site meeting place for artist-mothers.
It was created with brainstorming, consensus, volunteer action and a
great deal of enthusiasm. There were no guidelines for having work
chosen and published: anyone submitting was included. The theme is ‘birth’
and the work interprets that theme from actual birth of a child to the
birth of the mother to the birth of a zine, and everything in between.
Contributing zinesters include the well-known Ariel Gore (Hip Mama),
Ayun Halliday (the East Village Inky) and Bee Lavender (A Beautiful
Final Tribute); and the not-so-well-known. All essayists contributed to
the editing, formatting, photocopying and paying for paper and postage.
Mamaphiles is a historical undertaking in the zine genre: it is 132
pages of all mother-perspective writing, and the women live all over the
country.
Taking nearly five months to complete, the project was carried on
through the particular challenges (childcare; employment, housing, and
time issues; book deals; mamas got pregnant, had babies, and even—sadly— a miscarriage) of seeing a work to completion for a mother. The process was longer than expected, as gestation sometimes is, but the contributors celebrate that process and the strength of their group accomplishment, just as a mother celebrates the birth of a child.
Mamaphiles is available at Mamas Unidas zine distribution, specializing in mother-written zines, at http://www.geocities.com/mamasunidasdistro,
and various independent bookstores.
