Rad Dad: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Fatherhood

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A combination of the best pieces from the award-winning zine Rad Dad and the blog Daddy Dialectic, two kindred publications that have tried to explore parenting as political territory. Today more than ever, fatherhood demands constant improvisation, risk and struggle. Rad Dad is the perfect book for every father out there in the real world who is trying to parent in ways that are loving, meaningful, authentic and, ultimately, revolutionary.

Tomas Moniz is the founder, the editor, and a writer for the award-winning magazine Rad Dad. He teaches basic skills classes at Berkeley City College and works with the National Writing Project. He lives in Berkeley, California. Jeremy Adam Smith is the founder of the acclaimed blog Daddy Dialectic, the author of The Daddy Shift, the coeditor of Are We Born Racist?, and a 2010-2011 John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University. He lives in San Francisco.

"Rad Dad gives voice to egalitarian parenting and caregiving by men in a truly radical fashion, with its contributors challenging traditional norms of what it means to be a father and subverting paradigms, while making you laugh in the process. With its thoughtful and engaging stories on topics like birth, stepfathering, gender, politics, pop culture, and the challenges of kids growing older, this collection of essays and interviews is a compelling addition to books on fatherhood." --Jennifer Silverman, co-editor, My Baby Rides the Short Bus: The Unabashedly Human Experience of Raising Kids with Disabilities "With a diverse, smart, and political collection of contributors, Rad Dad will be an instant classic among the new generation of parents whose parenting intersects with their politics. There's no way you can put this book down without feeling both inspired and entertained by the bold honesty and fierce love heard in these voices." --Jessica Mills, author of My Mother Wears Combat Boots: A Parenting Guide for the Rest of Us "Rad Dad is one of the most important voices on the planet--at once parental, political, feminist, humble, and full of heart. In Rad Dad, none of our assumptions about parenting, gender, or the way things 'have to be' in the world go unexplored." --Ariel Gore, author of Bluebird: On Women and Happiness and The Hip Mama Survival Guide "Rad Dad is a rattlebag of the rough-hewn and the polished, the insightful and the infuriating, the comic and the sublime. But it's always passionate, critical and, in moments, heart-stopping. In short: Rad Dad is fab." --Raj Patel, author of The Value of Nothing "Rad Dad is a book about all the shapes and sizes that dads come in, united by the simple narrative thread of man and his children. Read the book and love your kids. It's that simple." --Tom Matlack, co-founder of The Good Men Project