Big Mama Rag was a radical feminist collective alternative newspaper published monthly from Denver, Colorado, between 1972 and 1984.

Big Mama Rag was developed by a collective of feminists that recognized issues with traditional media outlets.

[2] Other members included Chocolate Waters, Jackie St. Joan,[3] Jane Severance,[4] and Kathleen Riley.

[1] The original founders formed a "core group," which was open to anyone willing to meet twice a week and commit to the work.

They changed the name from "core group" to "collective" in order to remove the hierarchy associated with the term.

[7] They saw this as a "deliberate political attack," where advertising and mailing lists, files and equipment were stolen or destroyed.

The IRS denied their application because the newspaper had political and legislative content and because "its articles promoted lesbianism.