Hip Mama: The Parenting Zine is an American Alternative Press Award-winning quarterly periodical covering the culture and politics of parenting.

The magazine is widely credited with launching the contemporary mothers' movement.

[1] The first issue of Hip Mama was published in December, 1993, in Oakland, California, by the founding editor Ariel Gore as a forum for single, urban and feminist mothers.

Gore edited Hip Mama for 15 years.

Hip Mama relaunches in 2014 with expanded food, arts, and political coverage.