From China Martens comes a compilation of The Future Generation zine, started in 1990! The zine is by radical moms, for radical mom's, and has writings on issues like sexism, violence, and resistance. There's even an interview with a mom punk band dressed up as KISS! But the thing that really shines through is China's love of being a mom. This book has so much raw energy and heart, it's kind of incredible. Wait, there's also a story about 5 generations swimming at the same beach, a whole lotta love for Baltimore, and a chapter called, "Welfare Mothers Make Better Lovers." Basically, there's not enough space to list all the cool things about this book!

Zines typically reflect the unique personalities and lives of their makers. But now many zines are more focused on wacky road trips or staying home and making vegan pasta dishes and being very nice to each other. And that's all well and good but what happened to post-Gen X crazy stylings and unique windows into lives we'll never live? China is featured here in a skimpy nursing outfit, surrounded by anatomy teaching aids. You see, despite China's life choice, she's deathly afraid of hospitals. Each page oozes personality: a distrust of science, a vague but persistent spirituality, her own brand of low self-esteem, love for her children and friends, and a constant desire to be anywhere but where she is. Completed by poems about genetic recombination and stoichiometry. It's China's ability to cause such reactions that will keep you reading. You've never seen nursing school like this.

The mother of all zines, this huge collection of writing by mommies reflects on "coming home"! Tons of contributors as usual, all who make their own zines about mothering. Tomas of Rad Dad even snuck in this time!