An edition of The future generation (1990)

The Future generation

Welfare mothers make better lovers

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An edition of The future generation (1990)

The Future generation

Welfare mothers make better lovers

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This issue of Martens's anarchist mamazine discusses her personal struggle with poverty and the welfare system. She talks about the institutionalization of welfare and how being told to get a job is a useless strategy, as well as the ways that welfare is interpreted in racist and sexist ways. She then focuses on the difficulties of raising a child while being poor, as well as the peer influences her daughter has in regards to name brand items, which are often created in sweatshops. There is also an article on a hospital birth and cesarean-section written by a dad.

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[China Martens]
Language
English
Pages
55

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Table of Contents

Introduction --
How I feel, right now --
How I got back in school --
The day I applied for cash assistance --
Nikes suck --
Poster --
Fear of a zombie nation --
Welfare mothers make better lovers --
Excerpts from Afterbirth : Faith's new zine (yay!) --
Homebirth : they've even the birth process --
Why I chose home birth : the parenting review --
Death as a developmental stage --
Henry's dad talks aobut hospital birth + fatherhood --
(submission, yay!) - Jeff Bagato --
A young mother's story (submission, yay!) --
Letters --
Zen anarchy --
Why it hurts (me) to be a writer --
Book review : Pigs in Heaven --
Book excerpt : Society from the Continuum Concept --
Resources (listing of some addresses of zines I quote) --
Livin on Stoney Run Road --
Back page - quote taken from Aaron Cometbus's novel, Double Deuce --
Cover quote - Welfare lovers make better lovers - taken from a Neil Young song --

Edition Notes

A zine for subculture parents, kids, friends & others.

Cover title.

No. 9 Gift of the author, donated in 2007.

245 updated series 490 deleted 500 gift 2015 kb

Published in
Fairfield, Pa.]
Series
Future generation -- no. 9.

The Physical Object

Pagination
55 p.
Number of pages
55

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL45073532M
OCLC/WorldCat
182564009

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Work Description

China Martens started her pioneering mamazine The Future Generation in 1990. She was a young anarchist punk rock mother who didn't feel that the mamas in her community had enough support, so she began publishing articles on radical parenting in an age before the internet. This anthology of her zine was first distributed in 2007 and has been out of print. Covering 16 years, The Future Generation uses individual issues as chapters, focusing on personal writing, and retaining the character of a zine that changed over the years--from her daughter's birth to teenagehood and beyond. Though first published in the 1990s, many of the essays and observations--about parenting, children, and surviving in a hostile political climate--still ring true today. PM Press is proud to present a 10th-anniversary edition including a new afterword by China's grown daughter.

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