rad dad -- a zine about parenting

Thursday, January 12, 2012

News!

I'm on the road wrapping up an amazing tour of California with my co-editor Jeremy Adam Smith as well as a number of amazing mamas and papas who have come out to read and/or support each event!

I want to share with you all the news that Rad Dad has sold out of its first edition and is going to its second printing! Thank you!

The latest issue of the zine, Rad Dad 21: Occupy, is out now and has powerful stories about the occupy movements and kids as well as other personal pieces on parenting!

Finally, there is a new call for submissions for the next issue of Rad Dad, which is gonna focus on mistakes we have made (Bad Dad?) as well as the legacy of the Riot Grrl movement 20 years on...

We would like to have a number of events come Spring tentatively entitled Outta the Bookstores, Into the Parks and Streets. If you have suggestions on places to read where parents congregate, share it with us.

Stay in touch and stay strong,

We got each others' backs!

Tomas c/s

Friday, December 09, 2011

Out Tomorrow!

I will be at the East Bay Alternative Press Book Fair with the brand new Rad Dad: The Occupy Issue!

Dec 10th from 10 - 4 at Berkeley City College!

Friday, October 28, 2011

Announcements fro the Fall and Winter

The new issue of the zine is due in December with stories from the Occupy Movement as well as good ol’ pieces on trying to parent in meaningful, conscientious ways...

Here are a couple good reviews of the book, which came out in September! Review 1, Review 2, Review 3.

And finally here is a list of the next few readings through the New Year. All information is also available on Facebook.

Please come out, say hi, stay in touch, and spread the word…

Rock, Paper, Scissors

2278 Telegraph Ave

Oakland

Saturday, November 5, 2011

7:00 pm

Readers: Tomas Moniz, Jeremy Adam Smith, Jeff Conant, Shawn Taylor, Craig Elliott

Russo's Books at The Marketplace

9000 Ming Ave # I4

Bakersfield

Thursday, November 10th, 2011

6:30 pm

Skylight Books

1818 N Vermont Ave (between Hollywood Blvd & Franklin)

Los Angeles, CA 90027

Nov 12

5 pm

Green Arcade

680 Market Street @Gough
San Francisco CA 94102

December 1^st

7 pm

Pegasus Downtown Berkeley

Rad Parents Read Their Favorite Kids Books

December 5^th

5 pm

We will have a at table at the East Bay Alternative Press Book Fair on December 10^th

Berkeley City College

SubRosa

703 Pacific Avenue
Santa Cruz, CA

January 8^th

5 pm

Linnaea's Café

1110 Garden Street
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401

January 10^th

Time TBA

Chaucer's Books
3321 State Street
Santa Barbara CA 93105

January 11^th

7pm

San Diego

January 13^th

TBA

Book Soup

8818 Sunset Blvd.

West Hollywood, CA 90069

January 14th

5pm

Joined by Jillian Lauren and Shawn Taylor

I’ll also be at the LA Zine Fest February 18^th so look for another reading...

Monday, August 15, 2011

Rad Dad Tour Dates

It’s official! The Rad Dad Anthology will be out on August 1st. There will be a number of events this Fall to help celebrate the amazing and inspiring work that radical mamas and papas do day in and day out that has been the reason behind Rad Dad all these years. More events will be posted as they are confirmed.

The Avid Reader
617 2nd Street
Davis, CA
Wednesday, August 31 2011
7:30 pm
Special Guests: Tomas Moniz

San Francisco Zine Fest
San Francisco County Fair Building, in Golden Gate Park
Saturday and Sunday, September 3 & 4, 2011
All Day

Libertalia Autonomous Space
280 Broadway Room 200
Providence, RI
Friday September 16, 2011
3:30 pm
Special Guest: Tomas Moniz and Jeremy Adam Smith

Bluestockings
172 Allen Street
Manhattan, NY
Saturday, September17, 2011
7:30pm
Special Guest: Tomas Moniz, Jeremy Adam Smith, and Ayun Halliday

Brooklyn Bookfair
BROOKLYN BOROUGH HALL
209 JORALEMON STREET
Sunday, September18, 2011
All Day
Special Guest: Tomas Moniz and Jeremy Adam Smith

Woodenshoe Anarchist Collective
704 South Street
Philadelphia, PA
Monday, September 19, 2011
7:00 pm
Special Guest: Tomas Moniz and Jeremy Adam Smith

Positive Force
Washington, DC
Saturday, September 23, 2011
All Day
Special Guests: Tomas Moniz, Mark Anderson, and others

Baltimore Bookfair
600 BLOCK NORTH CHARLES STREET
Baltimore, MD
Sunday, September 24, 2011
All Day
Special Guests: Tomas Moniz

Modern Times
2919 24th St
San Francisco, CA
Thursday, September 29, 2011
7:00 pm
Readers: Tomas, Jeremy, Shawn

Reach And Teach
178 South Blvd
San Mateo, CA
Saturday, October 1, 2011
3:00 pm
Special Guest: Tomas Moniz and Jeremy Adam Smith

LitCrawl
Oddball Films, 250 Capp St
San Francisco, CA
Saturday, October 15, 2011
6:00 – 7:00
Readers: Tomas, Shawn,

Rock, Paper, Scissors
2278 Telegraph Ave
Oakland
Saturday, November 5, 2011
7:00 pm
Readers: Tomas, Jeremy

Russo's Books at The Marketplace
9000 Ming Ave # I4
Bakersfield
Thursday, November 10th, 2011
630 pm

Skylight Books
1818 N Vermont Ave (between Hollywood Blvd & Franklin)
Los Angeles, CA 90027
Nov 12
Saturday afternoon

We also have an event Jan 14th at Book Soup in LA.

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Out now!

You can now order "Rad Dad: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Fatherhood" for only 15 bucks! Share on your Facebook wall, tweet it, blurb it on your blog, shout it from the rooftops!

Friday, July 15, 2011

Rad Dad, The Anthology Release Celebrations

Friday, June 17, 2011

Not that I timed it but...

available right now from Microcosm is the latest issue of Rad Dad! Here's their review:

Hot on the heals of Rad Dad 19, we're excited to announce the release of issue 20! This issues features articles about special needs children, traditional Japanese grandparents, queer male allies, and an interview with Brian Heagney—the author, illustrator, and publisher of the kid's book, The ABCs of Anarchism. Some of this issue is learning lessons from your children—or even them teaching you lessons—and as always, Rad Dad is a forum and a source of hope that parents and children can one day be welcomed in radical spaces. This is important reading—vital stuff for parents and nonparents alike.