7/13/2023 0 Comments Rad dad zine![]() ![]() Last year, under the creative vision of Kyle Knobel, and alongside the relaunch of the alternative parenting magazine Hip Mama, RAD DAD morphed into a beautiful bound magazine and writers’ collective. “That’s the premise, not what we are but what we aspire to be.” “I love the way people take risk and show vulnerabilities,” Moniz says about the writers to contribute to RAD DAD. Moniz wants parents to look beyond the cute and silly to reflect on the triumphs and struggles that lie in everyday parenting. ![]() Creating a collectiveĪ decade later, with only one teenager remaining in his Berkeley home, Moniz still sees a lack of fathers writing about their vulnerable moments. “I regret not sharing my early stuff with my son,” said Moniz, who now gets the approval of his teenage daughters if they are going to be mentioned in essays or editorials. Like bloggers of today, Moniz poured his unfiltered feelings about parenthood on to the page – often using his teen son as an example. “I didn’t know what I was doing for a long time with my writing,” said Moniz, who would put his kids to bed and spend the evening hours working on the zine. He began creating RAD DAD out of his house, cutting and pasting his thoughts into small booklets to be photocopied, traded, and sold. Inspired by renegade writers who bypassed the approval process of a publisher and editor, Moniz turned to the zine community for the inspiration. “I wanted to get published, but who would publish me?” the father of three said. He quickly realized his writings were not going to fit into any glossy magazine. Moniz, a teacher at Berkeley City College, started piecing together his thoughts and feelings onto paper. ![]()
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