RAD DAD ::: Sunday ::: December 18::: Winning Coffee 111 Harvard SE ::: 3:00pm :::
Rad Dad: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Fatherhood
ABQ Zine Fest and Cellar Door Gifts & Gallery proudly host a reading on Sunday, December 18th @ 3:00pm at Winning Coffee, featuring Tomas Moniz, the founder, editor and writer of Rad Dad , a zine about parenting! Tomas is in town to read from the new anthology, Rad Dad: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Fatherhood. There will be some local zinesters reading their work as well!
Books will be available for sale. Donations for ABQ Zine Fest 2012 will be gladly accepted as well.
About Rad Dad:
“Rad Dad combines the best pieces from the award-winning zine Rad Dad and from the blog Daddy Dialectic, two kindred publications that have tried to explore parenting as political territory. Both of these projects have pushed the conversation around fathering beyond the safe, apolitical focus most books and websites stick to; they have not been complacent but have worked hard to create a diverse, multi-faceted space in which to grapple with the complexityof fathering.
Rad Dad belongs to all of us: the papas and mamas and tíos and tías and grandparents and allies and babysitters. It kicks and screams to create community, to be a place to share ideas and experiences, and to build bridges between parents, new and old. Despite the mainstream representation of parenting as largely white and middle class, Rad Dad works to reflect the broad spectrum of parenting: parents of color, poor parents, queer parents, young parents; the zine strives to create a space for those voices. Rad Dad imagines a world in which all children and parents are welcomed in activist spaces as well as workplaces. It recognizes the rights of all children and parents regardless of gender or biology or living arrangements. Rad Dad is dedicated to social justice in the streets and in our homes, and knows that men need to take responsibility for fighting patriarchy, and simply being a stay at home dad or splitting the house work isn’t enough. Rad Dad is what we aspire to be, not necessarily what we are. But Rad Dad wants us to get there together.”
Tomas Moniz is the founder, editor, and a writer for the award-winning zine Rad Dad. He has helped raise three children and has been making zines since the late nineties. He teaches basic skills classes at Berkeley City College and works with the National Writing Project.
See you at the reading!