Through her work on Hip Mama, Gore is widely credited with launching maternal feminism and the contemporary mothers' movement.
[4][5] Her stepfather, John Duryea, was a priest who had been excommunicated in 1976 by the Catholic Church when he confessed in a sermon that he had fallen in love with Gore's mother.
[7] In her book Atlas of the Human Heart (2003), Gore recounts the period in her life just after leaving high school, when she traveled the world, working odd jobs and squatting in abandoned buildings.
[9] The first issue of Hip Mama was published in December, 1993, in Oakland, California as part of Gore's senior project while attending Mills College.
[11] In 2014, Gore moved back to Oakland and relaunched Hip Mama with expanded food, arts, and political coverage.