7/22/2023 0 Comments Rad dad zine![]() As I became more involved in the zine world, I realized I was doing a lot of writing about my struggles I was having with my son: He was about 10 by that time and as he was going on he started getting into more and more trouble. I certainly was inspired by Ariel Gore's Hip Mama and began to come across a lot of amazing, alternative publications around parenting, like China Marten's The Future Generation and things like that, but there was still a dad-void, and so I took it upon myself to try to fill it. That lead me to the same search you were doing, like, 'What's out there? There's got to be something.' As my son got older I started to begin realize that I wanted to parent differently than the ways I was parented and found myself reacting to the messages I was getting about parenting from mainstream society, particularly in relation to fathers. I was a really young parent - I was 20 - and the first few years it was just kind of chaos trying to get through everything. I would have been so stoked to have found a book like Rad Dad at the time. Westword: The parenting sections at most bookstores were completely underwhelming in terms of anything geared towards dads when my kids were born. ![]() We caught up with the Berkley, CA-based zinester for a conversation about the politics of parenting, the dearth of good resources for fathers, and why zines still matter. featuring Tomas Moniz, editor of the Rad Dad zine and co-editor (with Daddy Dialectic editor Jeremy Adam Smith) of the new book Rad Dad: Dispatches From the Frontiers of Fatherhood. The Denver Zine Library at 2727 West 27th Avenue is hosting a special Rad Dad reading on Saturday at 1 p.m.
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