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HipMama - Wed, 07/23/2008 - 3:55am

The Prids

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Christmastime Writing Workshop in Oaxaca, Mexico with Ariel Gore

HipMama - Sun, 07/13/2008 - 6:09pm

December 11-17, 2008

Ariel Gore will be hosting a writing workshop in Oaxaca, Mexico this winter! The class size is super-limited, so click to www.arielgore.com and sign up early if you're coming...

As the light of the north wanes this winter, spend a week writing and soaking up inspiration in the sunshine of southern Mexico.

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Wide Open Spaces by Abigail Dotson

HipMama - Wed, 06/25/2008 - 10:21pm

There was a space I used to feel safe. Everyone should have such a space.

Today, when fear grips me and I need a balance bar to keep from slipping out of my life, I remember those mornings when I felt safe. Ten, fifteen, twenty-five years ago…these are some of my first memories. My bed is warm and cozy, but I am not sleeping. Sometime just hours after falling asleep I am awake again and all night long I drift in and out of this semi-conscious state. It is not tiring nor is it frustrating; I relish the feeling of being snug and in bed. I don’t want to fall asleep and miss it. I want to embrace it, to realize it and hold its hand. I want to spend all night drowsy and relaxed, awake in my sleepy space.--read more >>

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And This Unto You by Abigail Dotson

HipMama - Tue, 05/20/2008 - 11:52pm

My mom says I was born tense. Tense and intense. When she tells the story of how I was born, amidst the drama and gesticulation, I feel a little sad to know that I am this child she speaks of. When she talks about the way she could hear me screaming day and night in the nursery just a few doors down, and of her helplessness in coming to my rescue, I feel the aftermath both of her helplessness and of my own. It's a feeling I can't seem to shake.--read more >>

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The Unknown Soldiers

Alternet - Thu, 10/21/2004 - 7:07am
The reality of the suffering in Iraq has been rendered invisible by media hype and partisan battle. One doctor, who has treated some of the thousands, speaks about the war wounded.

Mother Lode

Alternet - Thu, 10/21/2004 - 7:07am
"My son is involved in a deadly situation that should never have been."

Excellence in Failure or Education for All?

Alternet - Thu, 10/21/2004 - 7:07am
One enforces standardized tests, the other promises a federal trust fund; one pushes shame, the other promotes equality. Contrast and compare the Bush and Kerry approaches to education in America.

Poetry Far from Home

Alternet - Thu, 10/21/2004 - 7:06am
The Translation Project seeks to track the rich tradition of Persian poetry in the Diaspora since the 1979 revolution, now that so many Iranians reside outside of their home country.

Personal Voices: Staying up Late to Vote Early

Alternet - Thu, 10/21/2004 - 7:05am
New voters hold their ground and stake their tents at Camp Out for Change, an event to mark the first day of early voting in Florida.

Annalee Newitz: Wiretap This!

Alternet - Thu, 10/21/2004 - 7:05am
A setback for all the spies of the world, the CryptoPhone's entire operating system has been hardened against wiretappers.

Jim Hightower: Who Needs American Workers?

Alternet - Wed, 10/20/2004 - 7:05pm
Instead, you, too, could become an "American accent and culture trainer."

Arianna Huffington: Will Bush Spark a Seismic Youthquake?

Alternet - Wed, 10/20/2004 - 7:05pm
All indications point to a radical turnaround in young voter turnout in the coming election – a turnaround fueled by a force more powerful than all the electoral hurdles placed in young people's way.

Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Good, Bad and Ugly in Bush's Civil Rights Record

Alternet - Wed, 10/20/2004 - 7:05pm
But do the good outweigh the bad and ugly?

DrugReporter: Ice Ain't Nice: A Cautionary Drug Tale

Alternet - Wed, 10/20/2004 - 7:05pm
Is ice, a highly refined form of methamphetamine, really as bad a problem in the Midwest as recent reports say? One thing is for sure: the stuff is hard to shake once you start.

Election 2004: Will Bush Spark a Seismic Youthquake?

Alternet - Wed, 10/20/2004 - 7:05pm
All indications point to a radical turnaround in young voter turnout in the coming election – a turnaround fueled by a force more powerful than all the electoral hurdles placed in young people's way.

MediaCulture: The Adolescent Mind of Washingtonienne

Alternet - Wed, 10/20/2004 - 7:05pm
As author of the famed blog Washingtonienne, Jessica Cutler gleefully published the sexual secrets of people she purports to care – and it's this, not her libido, that should incur our eye-rolling.

The Eternal Twilight of the Sinclair Mind

Alternet - Wed, 10/20/2004 - 6:05am
Jon Leiberman was fired for challenging Sinclair Broadcasting's cardinal rule: partisanship before principle. But the company's decision to back away from its original plan reveals the high price of playing politics.

Failure in Fallujah

Alternet - Wed, 10/20/2004 - 6:05am
"I think the residents of Fallujah don't want this sort of peace. They want a real peace, not a peace that stabs in the back and strikes and destroys homes and kills women."

Times Gone By

Alternet - Wed, 10/20/2004 - 6:05am
The past four years have offered some gems to look back at, and marvel.

Jacques and Me

Alternet - Wed, 10/20/2004 - 6:05am
She once Derrida'd everything. Then scorned the philosopher. Here, she deconstructs her love-hate relationship.
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