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Tomas Moniz

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male

website

http://raddadzine.blogspot.com/

genre

Parenting & Families, Literature & Fiction, Poetry

member since

September 2007

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Tomas Moniz is the founder, editor, and a writer for the award winning zine Rad Dad. Looking for radical parenting community, he created Rad Dad to provide the space for parents (and in particular fathers) to share, commiserate, plan, and support each other in challenging patriarchy one diaper at a time. And as China Martens has said, “Tomas has been the most vocal voice within zines, trying to start and keep a discussion within this aspect of radical politics and parenthood.” His writing has been included in many zines about parenting as well as in the books My Mother Wears Combat Boots and Don’t Leave Your Friends Behind.

He’s been making zines since the late nineties, and his most current project is the serialized zine novella, Without Wo...more

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Books by Tomas Moniz

Average rating: 4.11 · 53 ratings · 11 reviews · 6 distinct works

	Rad Dad: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Fatherhood by Tomas Moniz (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Steve Almond, Jeff Chang 4.08 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	My rating:
	9 stories about the letter J 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2012	My rating:
	like hickies, like bruises 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:
	Rad Dad #21 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2012	My rating:
	Rad Dad #20 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Rad Dad #18: Sex & Love 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2001	My rating:

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Tomas Moniz is currently reading:

The Darkness Around Us is Deep: Selected Poems

by William Edgar Stafford

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Feb 05, 2012 09:09pm

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Even in Quiet Places

by William Edgar Stafford

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Feb 05, 2012 09:09pm

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Learning to Live in the World: Earth Poems by William Stafford

by William Edgar Stafford

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Tomas Moniz gave to: The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3) by J.R.R. Tolkien read in May, 2012	My rating:
Tomas Moniz Nice to have it all come together and there were some lines that resonated with me: I am glad you are here with me here at the end of all things. not all tears are evil it's also interesting that Frodo can't stay; can't return home...he's to...more
May 22, 2012 12:04am · see review
Tomas Moniz made a comment on his review of The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3) "Nice to have it all come together and there were some lines that resonated with me: I am glad you are here with me here at the end of all things. not al...more "
May 22, 2012 12:02am · see review
Tomas Moniz gave to: 9 stories about the letter J by Tomas Moniz (Goodreads Author) read in April, 2012	My rating:
short, crispy, racy, written in a response to an argument that Elliott Smith was depressing. If you wanna copy, let me know.
May 17, 2012 03:15pm · see review
Tomas Moniz became a fan of Raj Patel and Goodreads Author Chelsea Martin
May 13, 2012 10:32pm · all of Tomas's favorite authors
Tomas Moniz gave to: Dance of Days: Two Decades of Punk in the Nation's Capital by Mark Andersen read in May, 2012	My rating:
I initially started this for the section on riot grrrl, but quickly got pulled into the narrative of the growth of hardcore and the history of things like the x on the hand, the term moshing and slam dancing; it was a very nicely paced book, weaving...more
May 13, 2012 09:48am · see review
Tomas Moniz gave to: The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac read in April, 2012	My rating:
The sexism was totally fucked up and even if the narrator kinda senses it's a problem, still that is a very triggering aspect of the book. i did enjoy some of the prose, the writing, and the notion of radical Buddhism with aspects of anarchism intere...more
May 13, 2012 09:45am · see review
Tomas Moniz is now following Chelsea Martin's reviews
Apr 22, 2012 01:35pm
Tomas Moniz gave to: Everything Was Fine Until Whatever by Chelsea Martin (Goodreads Author) read in April, 2012	My rating:
I like the zine versions better but i do love the playfulness and the underlying seriousness of her writing... i hope she pushes herself more...to write longer pieces...
Apr 22, 2012 01:34pm · see review
Tomas Moniz gave to: This Won't Take But a Minute, Honey by Steve Almond read in April, 2012	My rating:
so normally how to write books bug me and this one did bug me but in that kinda good way when i realize the shit he calls people out on is the shit i'm kinda doing... the brevity also really helped allow his points to be the focus and not him... helpfu...more
Apr 22, 2012 01:29pm · see review