hi hip mamas,
hope you can join us!

My Baby Rides the Short Bus contributors will be reading in two fabulous venues this summer!

First, come hear us in the Pacific Northwest with contributor/hostess Chloe Eudaly of Portland's Reading Frenzy zine emporium (www.readingfrenzy.com) along with Kerry Cohen, Mitzi Waltz, Nina Packebush and co-editors Yantra Bertelli, Jennifer Silverman and Sarah Talbot Saturday July 24th, 7 p.m. at p:ear (338 NW 6th Ave.).

If you're in the NYC area, we'll be at Bluestockings bookstore (www.bluestockings.com) on Saturday, August 7th at 7 p.m. (172 Allen Street) with visiting west coast contributors Shannon Des Roches Rosa and Jennifer Byde Myers plus Sharis Ingram & (co-editor) Jennifer Silverman to commemorate our second printing.

The Short Bus, Long Road mini book tour continues:
with contributors Sharis Ingram, Ziva Mann, Stephanie Sleeper & co-editor Jennifer Silverman.
Boston (April 25th, Lucy Parsons Center, at 2pm)

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Bay Area Readings for the Groundbreaking Anthology
My Baby Rides the Short Bus:
The Unabashedly Human Experience of Raising Kids with Disabilities

Essayists and editors from this exciting new collection of revolutionary essays by parents of disabled children will participate in three events around the Bay Area in March, 2010:

Please join us at one of these events!

Friday, March 12th, 6:30 p.m. at Modern Times, 888 Valencia St., San Francisco
Featuring local writers Kathy Briccetti, Thida Cornes, Kim Mahler, Jennifer Byde Myers, and Shannon Des Roches Rosa followed by a Q&A session with the authors and co-editors Yantra Bertelli, Jennifer Silverman and Sarah Talbot.

Saturday, March 13th, 7:30 p.m. at Pegasus Books Downtown, 2349 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley
Readings from contributors Marcy Sheiner and Andrea Winninghoff and editors Yantra Bertelli, Jennifer Silverman and Sarah Talbot.

Sunday, March 14th, 5 p.m. at Green Arcade, 1680 Market Street, San Francisco
Book release event with editors Yantra Bertelli, Jennifer Silverman and Sarah Talbot along with Tomas Moniz (Rad Dad) and Jeremy Adam Smith (The Daddy Shift).

My Baby Rides the Short Bus
Saturday, November 14th, 2009

Featuring readings by New York City writers Ayun Halliday Jennifer Silverman, Sabrina Chapadjiev, and Sharis Ingram.

Ayun Halliday is the author of four self-mocking autobiographies (No Touch Monkey! And Other Travel Lessons Learned Too Late, The Big Rumpus, Job Hopper and Dirty Sugar Cookies), and the picture book, Always Lots of Heinies at the Zoo. In her spare time, she is the Chief Primatologist & sole staff member of the quarterly zine, The East Village Inky, as well as BUST magazine's Mother Superior columnist.

Jennifer Silverman is a recovering journalist, mama of two rambunctious sons, agitator and co-editor of My Baby Rides the Short Bus. Her writing about mothering her son with autism has appeared in Hip Mama and off our backs, among others. She lives in Queens, NY.

Sabrina Chapadjiev is a freelance writer and editor. Her work has been featured in Adbusters, Gathering of the Tribes, riffRAG, and Streetwise. Her full-length collection, Cliterature, has been featured in the International Museum of Women's on-line exhibition. Her first book, Live Through This- On Creativity and Self-Destruction, was a Lambda Literary award finalist.

Sharis Ingram is the mother of two children with PDD diagnoses. She is a life-long New Yorker who currently lives in the Bronx.

In lives where there is a new diagnosis or drama every day, the stories in My Baby Rides the Short Bus provides parents of “special needs” kids with a welcome chuckle, a rock to stand on, and a moment of reality held far enough from the heart to see clearly. Featuring works by countercultural parents, this anthology, taken as a whole, carefully considers the implications of parenting while raising children with disabilities.

November 14th, 2009 at Bluestockings Bookstore, Lower East Side, Manhattan
172 Allen Street(F or V train to 2nd Ave.), 7 pm. Free!
For more information or to request review copies, please email shortbusbook@yahoo.com

We're pleased to announce that My Baby Rides the Short Bus was released in mid-October, and features contributors from past and present Hip Mama writes, including editors Jennifer Silverman (me), Sarah Talbot, Yantra Bertelli, Ayun Halliday & Kathy Bricetti, among others. Introduction by Lisa "suckdog" Carver.
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In lives where there is a new diagnosis or drama every day, the stories in this collection provide parents of “special needs” kids with a welcome chuckle, a rock to stand on, and a moment of reality held far enough from the heart to see clearly. Featuring works by “alternative” parents who have attempted to move away from mainstream thought--or remove its influence altogether--this anthology, taken as a whole, carefully considers the implications of parenting while raising children with disabilities.

From professional writers to novice storytellers including Robert Rummel-Hudson, Ayun Halliday, and Kerry Cohen, this assortment of authentic, shared experiences from parents at the fringe of the fringes is a partial antidote to the stories that misrepresent, ridicule, and objectify disabled kids and their parents.

"This is the most important book I've read in years. Whether you are subject or ally, My Baby Rides the Short Bus will open you--with its truth, humanity, and poetry. Lucky you to have found it. Now stick it in your heart."
--Ariel Gore

"The contributors of this important and necessary anthology span a range of decades from a time when "defective babies" were institutionalized, to the nascent civil rights movement, straight on to a new era of independent living. The families sharing these stories live and often struggle with the consequences of illness, injury, genetic inheritance, or sometimes a perplexing and mysterious combination of factors, insisting that the world recognize a basic fact: "We are not science experiments."
--Bee Lavender

mama salon @ bluestockings
Readings of original work by four mama/mami writers: Kerry Cohen (Loose Girl), Vikki Law (Resistance Behind Bars), Maegan Ortiz (VivirLatino) and Jennifer Silverman (My Baby Rides the Short Bus). Free.

Friday, September 18, 2009
7:00pm - 8:30pm
Bluestockings Bookstore
172 Allen Street
New York, NY

Description Kerry Cohen is the author of Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity, as well as four young adult novels. Her essays have been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Babble.com, and Portland Monthly, and are forthcoming in Best Sex Writing 2010, Brevity, and My Baby Rides the Short Bus. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her family.

Victoria Law is a writer, mother, and photographer. Since 2002, she has worked with women incarcerated nationwide to produce Tenacious: Art and Writings from Women in Prison. Her writings have appeared in Hip Mama, off our backs, make/shift magazine and Left Turn. Her book, Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women is the culmination of 8 years of research, writing and listening to the stories of women incarcerated nationwide.

Maegan “la Mamita Mala” Ortiz is a Queens born and bred Nuyorican mami, Espanglish poeta, freelance writer, blogger, and all around rabble rouser. Her words and opinions have been featured in the Washington Post, Latina Magazine, The New York Daily News, National Public Radio and VivirLatino, where she is a Managing Editor.

Jennifer Silverman is a recovering journalist, mama of two rambunctious sons, agitator and co-editor of the forthcoming anthology My Baby Rides the Short Bus (PM Press, 2009). Her writing about mothering her son with autism has appeared in Hip Mama and off our backs, and the ‘zine version of Short Bus, among others. She resides in Queens, NY.

mamabration!

Sunday, May 10, 2009

6:00pm - 8:00pm

Bluestockings bookstore

172 Allen Street between Stanton and Rivington

New York, NY

after the mother's day brunches, flowers and platitudes, get down with these irreverent and thought-provoking mamas as they read and perform in celebration of motherhood:

please email us at shortbusbook@yahoo.com if you are unable to meet the may 15th deadline.

Call for submissions: My Baby Rides the Short Bus – an upcoming anthology to be published by PM Press (Winter, 2009)

We are seeking submissions from a diverse group of parents raising special needs kids who feel marginalized by their subculture status (economics, lifestyle, orientation, religion/atheism) and underrepresented in print.

Call for submissions: My Baby Rides the Short Bus – an upcoming anthology to be published by PM Press (Winter, 2009)

We are seeking submissions from a diverse group of parents raising special needs kids who feel marginalized by their subculture status (economics, lifestyle, orientation, religion/atheism) and underrepresented in print.

Get out of the cold and bask in the creativity and community at mothers alliance for mutual aid (m*a*m*a)'s FUNdraiser on Friday, February 23rd. Handmade arts, crafts, zines, comics and baked goodies will be sold to benefit our (almost) annual Mothers Day event, Mamas Rising Up!(our annual reclamation of Mother’s Day as an activist holiday that celebrates caregivers). Also a kid’s art area, tarot readings and a kissing booth (suggested donation). East Village Inky/No Touch Monkey/Dirty Sugar Cookies author Ayun Halliday will be selling zines, onesies, t-shirts and more.

Socialize and support your neighborhood radical mamas and families. At ABC No Rio, 156 Rivington Street, LES, from 6 p.m.-9 p.m. Kids encouraged! Donations of art are appreciated. Email mamariseup@yahoo.com if you want to contribute.