The Zine Archives

	ISSUE 1, SPRING 2003 THE MAMA BEAR ISSUE She's Coming Out of Hibernation, and Boy Is She Pissed! What to Do When You Have Kids and Feel Overwhlemed by How Fucked Up Everything Is Daily Humiliations: How It Came To Be That I Swallowed a Vaginal Suppository Deconstructing Babe by Grace Maselli Voyage of the Damned: A Christmastime Train Ride through Hell at the Narrow Gauge Railroad Maternal Guilt Trips People Who Need to Be Severely Punished Shopping with Kids: Or Why Valium Appeals Interview with Brenda Surabian, Homebirth Midwife
	ISSUE 2, FALL 2003 HOME RENOVATION Day-to-Day Coping in a Squalid Construction Site Daily Humiliations: How It Came to Be that I Sat in Cat Diarrhea Hausfrau Survival: Delegate Housework by Grace Maselli Daily Dilemma: I Need to Pee But How? How Can I Void My Bladder? People Who Need to be Severely Punished Interview with Ayun Halliday and Ayun's Tips on Surviving Long, Cold, House-Bound Winters with Kids
	ISSUE 3, WINTER 2004 THE SPIRITUAL JOURNEY OF PARENTHOOD A Journey of Pestilence: The Hausfrau Guide to Lice Eradication Reflections on Motherhood: Art by Deborah Klotz Paris My Li'l Guru: Why My Kids Are My Spiritual Teachers The Power of Frau! Long Day's Journey Into Night (with a newborn) by Christine Murray Getting Religion by Peggy Moss People Who Need to Be Sternly Talked To Daily Humiliations: How It Came to Be that I Cleaned Maggots Out from Under the Cover of My Toddler's Car Seat MONSTERFRAU!: Hell Hath No Fury Like a Hausfrau with No Serotonin
	ISSUE 4, SPRING 2004 THE HAUSDADDY ISSUE I Stay Home with My Kids, and You Suck! by David Hilton Hausfrau Confessions: How It Came to Be That My Two-Year Old Gave Herself a Bath in the Sink Bed-Time Banter: The Birth of Sire Magazine Little House in the Suburbs by John Bliss Hausfrau Expose: The Portland Flower Show--Fragrant, Bizarre, Unfun Being Around by Stona Fitch HomeDad Outlaw: A Cartoon by Chip Edgar Interview with WMPG's HomeDad: Chip Edgar People Who Need to Be Severely Punished How I Became a Stay-at-Home-Dad by Carl King What Is True Co-Parenting? An Exploration of Bean Counting, Gender Roles, and Male Lactation by Sam Stegeman
	ISSUE 5, FALL 2004 THE UNSPOKEN ISSUE I Hate My Playgroup by Anonymous Murray Miah Drowning by Brenda Surabian A Letter to My Son by Sharon DeFala Fast Walking and Other Parental Crimes by Lee Snodgrass Our Favorite Troublemaking Homedad Takes on the Boy Scouts by David Hilton Hausfrau Holiday! Chock Full O' Dead Critters! Pro-Choice Tear-Out Coloring Book The Anonymous Interview Every Stick a Gun Trends in Modern Fiction by A.K. Adams But I Wanted a Girl! by Kate Haas People Who Need to Be Severely Punished
	ISSUE 6, WINTER 2005 THE BLAAAAARGH! ISSUE A Post-Pneumonia, Post-Election Sputum Fest How W. Ruined My Sex Life by Leah Coplon Cher! A Hausfrau Photo Essay Parenting as Performance Art by Chester Nashvegas Hausfrau Holiday Bake-Off: Another Portrait that Norman Rockwell Forgot to Paint Interview with the Sketch-a-Chick, Marijane Brink Hausfrau Thanksgiving People Who Need to Be Severely Punished Regrettable Parenting Moments What I Wouldn't Give for My Old Body by Sharon DeFala Centerfold by Tanya Boggs
	ISSUE 7, SUMMER 2005 THE (LACK OF) SEX ISSUE There is Nothing Sexier than Doing the Dishes...Except Vacuuming by Stacey Greenberg The Soundtrack of Your Vasectomy by Misha Angrist A First Date for Hausfrau A Period Piece by Jen Marvelous People Who Need to Be Severely Punished Four Phases by Sharon DeFala Daily Humiliations: How It Came to Be that I Cleaned Cat Diarrhea Off a Hammer Milk by Raye Tibbits The Anonymous Poll (for Lynne) Gallery of Hausfrau Turn-Offs The Best Freakin' Mac 'n' Cheese in the World No Sex Please, We're Reading by A.K. Adams Centerfold by Lisa Bowe
	ISSUE 8, THE DARK MONTHS 2005/2006 LOSS AND OTHER NATURAL DISASTERS Heritage Days by Raye Tibbits The Apocalyptic Hausfrau: How It Came to Be that My Head Nearly Exploded Whilst I Drove South on I-95 During a Deluge Photographs, Cover, and Centerfold by Tanya Boggs Losing the Delusion of Permanence (or How We Got to Sri Lanka) by Peggy Moss People Who Need to Be Severely Punished The Adventures of Lobotomommy by Christine Murray Regrettable Parenting Moments Mass Murder in the Bathrom Sink by Jennifer Lewis Like a Steam Locomotive by Tom Davies My Li'l Guru The End: A Carton by Jennifer Lunden The Year of Magical Thinking: A Book Review by A.K. Adams
	ISSUE 9, SPRING 2006 THE BAD MUTHAH ISSUE My Mother's Gift: The "Must Beat Romo" Supplement "Coffee" by Raye Tibbitts "A Heart that's a Whore: The Beautiful, Devastating Patricide of Martha Wainwright" by Misha Angrist Cover art and illustrations by Leticia Plate Centerfold photograph by Tanya Boggs The (Not Completely) Anonymous Poll "New Orleans Update" by Vanessa Torres "Me Time" by Stacey Greenberg "Pot 'n' Kettle" by Sharon DeFala "Parenting Challenges" by Kelly Burns "From Sri Lanka" by Peggy Moss "Rage" by Grace Maselli "The Accidental": Do Bad Mothers make Good Fiction? by A.K. Adams
	ISSUE 10, FALL 2006 THE UN-HIP MAMA ISSUE Unhip piercings & tattoos Daily humiliations Regrettable parenting moments Big, floppy tushies Tales o' urinary incontinence (super sexy!) Cover by Leticia Plate "I bought an SUV" by Kate McDade Centerfold photos by Lisa Goodfellow Bowe "My nightmare flight across the country with two small children" by Sharon DeFala "Dianne" by Delia Macdonald "Ode to my breastpump" by Raye Tibbitts "Goin' with the flowbee" by Elisabeth Wilkins Lombardo
	ISSUE 11, WINTER 2007 THE FEEL GOOD ISSUE "How it Came to Be that I Was Bitch-Slapped by the Parenting Gods in the Seasonal Aisle of CVS" "Pump and Drive" (a breastpump fiasco) by Lindsay Sterling "The Mother of Poetry" by Raye Tibbitts Cover art by Jeremy Hutchins "It's All Part of My Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy" by Misha Angrist "Regrettable Parenting Moments" "Feelin' Good about Vomit" by Leah Coplon "Soccer Mom! A Celebration" by Bess Welden Book reviews by A.K. Adams: Bad Faith, Suite Francais, Lovely Green Eyes, and A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in a Conquered City "Feeling Bad about Not Feeling Good" by Cree Hale Krull Movie Reviews by George Chaison-Lapine: Charlotte's Web, Austin Powers, and It's a Wonderful Life
	ISSUE 12, SPRING-SUMMER 2007 THE SIRE! MAGAZINE ISSUE Man Kamp! The Men! The Meat! The Mayhem! (an exclusive interview with Mike Dank) Frank Sex Talk with Lynne Hausfrau Redux! I Take a Bite out of the Big Apple! Weird Food Combos at the James Beard Awards! With writing by favorite dads: Stona Fitch, Cree Hale Krull, Rob Wilder, Alan Parowski, and Bruce Triggs Dreams from My Father -- Hausfrau's first color centerfold by Jeremy Hutchins
	ISSUE 13, FALL/WINTER 2007 - 2008 THE MESSINIESS OF LIFE ISSUE Cover by Jen Judd-McGee Lice Redux! "If You Give a Mom a Cup of Coffee" by Brooke Williams Unhappy Lice-Ridden Snowman, photo by Amy Winton "The Strange Case of Dr. M""My Life. My Mess. My Chaos. My Choice. Is Chaos" by Peggy Moss "It's a Miracle! Bra!" "Losing My Pseudo-Religion" by Misha Angrist "Hausfrau Holiday Bake-Off: Another Portrait that Norman Rockwell Forgot to Paint"
	ISSUE 14, FALL 2008, THE BIRTH 'n' SEX DOUBLE ISSUE "How It Came to Be that I Gave Birth in a Utility Closet" Interview with China Marents: She Gave Birth to the Mama Zine "How It Came to Be that I Gave Birth in a Cattle Trough" Stories by Brooke Williams, Dan Kolbert, and Raye Tibbitts "How It Came to Be that I Attempted to Give Myself a Six-Month-Long Epidural" Centerfold comix by Jeremy Hutchins "My Knuckles Brushed Bill Clinton's Junk" by Jake McNally "Hausfrau Fantasies" Interview with Sex Goddess, Susie Bright Gina Rourke of Nomia Man Kamp Redux: Interview with Mike Dank
	ISSUE 15, MARCH 2009, THE EUROPEAN ISSUE One humungous hausfrauian comic (40 pages long, folks) about our trip to Europe. Chock full o': bacon hot EMTs Italian soldiers a man with pumpkin-colored pants horse meat saints and shiksas cliffhanger action and with special guest stars Leslie Oster and Ms. A.B.