Media

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If you’re a mother or mother-to-be, BabyGaga.com has your back! They cover everything you need to help raise your baby from the right brands to the many difficulties (and rewards) that come with being a mom. If that’s not enough, their passionate community is always active in their forum where you can seek help, give advice, and get to know your fellow moms! Their writers and editors are mothers who have seen it all. From newborn milestones to the terrible twos, their team can be trusted to provide information and first-hand experience that will help parents and parents-to-be as they navigate pregnancy, childbirth, and beyond. Babygaga

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Birthing from Within is a creative, nurturing, and personal way of preparing for birth and parenting. We want to support and inspire you. Browse through our selection of articles and processes—we hope you find things that feed both your spirit and your mind. Whether you are a pregnant woman, a father-to-be, a birth partner, a grandparent, or a birth professional, our articles are sure to stimulate new ways of thinking and being. Birthing from Within

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Bitch Media is a nonprofit feminist media organization best known for publishing the magazine Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture. Bitch Media’s mission is to provide and encourage an engaged, thoughtful feminist response to mainstream media and popular culture. They are a fresh, revitalizing voice in contemporary feminism, one that welcomes complex arguments and refuses to ignore the contradictory and often uncomfortable realities of life in an unequivocally gendered world. They cover topics on gender, sexuality, power, activism, social change, and feminism.  Bitch Media

Brain, Child

Brain, Child: The Magazine for Thinking Mothers is the only literary magazine in print dedicated to motherhood. Each issue contains personal essays, a short story, poetry, debates, and news. Contributors have included Pulitzer Prize-winning novelists Jane Smiley and Anne Tyler, best-selling author Barbara Ehrenreich, and acclaimed writers Antonya Nelson, Alice Hoffman, and Susan Maushart. Since Brain, Child‘s inception, the editors of Utne have nominated the magazine in the categories of General Excellence, Best Writing, and Best New Title. It is the youngest magazine to have been nominated for General Excellence. Work from Brain, Child is also award-winning, including numerous Pushcart Prizes and mentions in The Best American Essays.  Brain, Child

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The Crunk Feminist Collective will create a space of support and camaraderie for hip hop generation feminists of color, queer and straight, in the academy and without, by building a rhetorical community, in which we can discuss our ideas, express our crunk feminist selves,  fellowship with one another, debate and challenge one another, and support each other, as we struggle together to articulate our feminist goals, ideas, visions, and dreams in ways that are both personally and professionally beneficial. CFC

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Gay Parent Magazine is the longest running, nationally distributed publication dedicated to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender parenting (LGBTQ). In September 1998, Gay Parent magazine’s (GPM) website was launched online. Within two hours emails from enthusiastic readers began pouring in. Gay Parent magazine’s first print issue was published one month later. GPM is published bi-monthly and distributed mainly free through gay community centers and bookstores across the USA. Gay Parent magazine’s focus is to support and empower LGBTQ parents and  LGBTQs wishing to become first time parents. Gay Parent

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Feminist.com is a thriving online community fostering awareness, education, and activism for women all across the world. Like a “feminist Google,” they facilitate connections between women and the many varied organizations serving their needs and interests worldwide. Feminist.com serves as the Internet’s definitive hub for resources and information dedicated to women’s equality, justice, wellness, and safety. Feminist.com

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Feministing is an online community for feminists and their allies. The community aspect of Feministing – our community blog, campus blog, comment threads, and related social networking sites – exists to better connect feminists online and off and to encourage activism. The Feministing community seeks to provide a forum for a variety of feminist voices and organizations. Feministing

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The Feminist Wire‘s mission is to provide a sociopolitical and cultural critique of anti-feminist, racist, and imperialist politics pervasive in all forms and spaces of private and public lives of individuals globally. Of particular critical interest to us are social and political phenomena that block, negate, or limit the satisfaction of goods or ends that humans, especially the most vulnerable, minimally require for living free of structural violence. Seeks to sustain pro-feminist representations and create alternative frameworks to build a just and equitable society. The Feminist Wire

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KHORAI is an online newsfeed of reproductive and maternal mental health as well as topical issues related to women’s general well-being. KHORAI is a virtual space designed to stimulate discussion related to our emotional, physical, and spiritual formation throughout the woman’s lifespan. KHORAI employs an inquiry-based perspective, asking questions and examining the claims of empirical science and mass media.  Established in June 2012, KHORAI was created as a trustworthy public forum to thoughtfully collect, interpret, and disseminate information regarding women’s development—particularly at the intersection of psychological and reproductive health.  KHORAI

Literary Mama

Literary Mama, an online literary magazine, features writing by mother writers about the complexities and many faces of motherhood. Literary Mama features mama-centric writing with fresh voices, superior craft, and vivid imagery. They publish book reviews, columns, creative nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and profiles of mother writers and are a home for poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction that may be too long, too complex, too ambiguous, too deep, too raw, too irreverent, too ironic, and too body conscious for other publications. Literary Mama

Makers

MAKERS: Women Who Make America is an ongoing initiative that aims to be the largest and most dynamic collection of women’s stories ever assembled. Selections of MAKERS are made twice a year by our filmmaking team using guidelines set by our board of advisors. This process ensures that the make-up of the library of stories includes women from all walks of life with diverse experiences and perspectives. MAKERS.com is a dynamic digital platform showcasing thousands of compelling stories – both known and unknown – from trailblazing women of today and tomorrow. This historic video initiative was founded by Dyllan McGee and developed by AOL and PBS. Executive Producers are Dyllan McGee, Betsy West, and Peter Kunhardt. Learn more at MAKERS

Moms

At Moms.com their philosophy is simple: “You are not the best mom unless you are the BEST YOU!” That’s why they strive to give well-rounded information that will help you lead your best life. Whether giving important details on a recent toy recall, outlining the latest studies to help you make the most informed parenting decisions, or sharing stories from other moms surviving in the trenches of parenthood, they want mothers to feel supported and understood. Their team of writers and editors come with a wide variety of parenting experiences and while they don’t always see eye-to-eye on everything, each of them believes that love and support should always come before judgment. Moms

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Motherhood Uncensored  Motherhood Uncensored is known as one of the few internet voices speaking frankly and humorously about the challenges of motherhood, authored by Jersey native mom and writer Kristen Chase. Motherhood Uncensored 

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PhD in Parenting is a blog dedicated to parenting, feminism, and social change since May 2008. The author, Annie, is a social, political, and consumer advocate on issues of importance to parents, women, children, and the earth. She regularly uses her blog as a platform to create awareness and to advocate for change, calling out the government, corporations, media, and sometimes other bloggers for positions, policies, and actions that threaten the rights and well-being of parents and their children. PhD in Parenting

The Many Shades of Green Podcast delves into topics that affect the environment in Brooklyn and beyond, as we move to raise social awareness via culture, politics, music and the arts. We hope to open up a dialogue to enhance efforts that create innovation and change. We all have to learn to think out side the box, to promote ideas that will make the world a better place for this and future generations[LINK]

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Mother Jones is a nonprofit news organization that specializes in investigative, political, and social justice reporting.  They believe all people should have equal opportunity in life, that all children should be able to go to good schools, and that everyone should have health care. In 1993, Mother Jones became the first general interest magazine to go online. Mother Jones 

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Ms. Magazine was the first U.S. magazine to feature prominent American women demanding the repeal of laws that criminalized abortion, the first to explain and advocate for the ERA, to rate presidential candidates on women’s issues, to put domestic violence and sexual harassment on the cover of a women’s magazine, to feature feminist protest of pornography, to commission and feature a national study on date rape, and to blow the whistle on the undue influence of advertising on magazine journalism. Their blog makes feminist voices audible, feminist journalism tenable, and a feminist worldview available to the public.  Ms.  Blog

Rookie Moms

Rookie Moms is a fantastic resource for women from pregnancy to preschool & beyond. Offering tons of amazing activities for moms and babies alike, including tips from real moms who have been there/ done that, + ultimate guides to breastfeeding, sleeping, gear & more! They are here to help YOU navigate this crazy beautiful journey known as motherhood. Why trust them? For the past 12 years, hundreds of thousands of moms just like YOU have turned to Rookie Moms for trusted advice. And, it has been their mission to help make it easier for them (and you) to raise healthy, compassionate, kind little humans. Let’s face it, the world could use more of them right now. Rookie Moms

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Viva la Feminista is a blog written by Veronica I. Arreola, who is trying to navigate and understand the intersection between feminism, motherhood, and her Latinadad. Veronica is a respected member of the Chicago and national feminist community having worked with organizations such as Planned Parenthood, Women Employed, and the National Organization for Women. Viva la Feminista