Rad Families: A Celebration - Softcover

"Rad Families" is the collection for all families. Innosanto Nagara, author/illustrator, "A Is for Activist""

Rad dads, rad families, rad children. These stories show us that we are not alone. That we don t have all the answers. That we are all learning. Nikki McClure, illustrator, author, parent"

"Want a thriving family raising magical kids, building beloved community, and rooted in a vision of liberation that frees us all of white supremacist hetero-patriarchy? Read this book. Chris Crass, author, Towards Collective Liberation"

Rad Families is the collection for all families. Innosanto Nagara, author/illustrator, A Is for Activist"

"This collection takes the anaesthetized myth of parenting and reminds us what intimacy looks like . . . . The contributors describe the contours of family in a way that resonates. Virgie Tovar, editor, Hot & Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love & Fashion"

"I love this book! Wonderfully written, tenderly honest, unabashedly hilarious, deeply important stories from the messy beautiful world of real life parenting. Thank goodness it exists. Michelle Tea, author, How to Grow Up"

"These collected essays, written by various contributors, are raw, inspired, and artful, capturing the joys and pains of parenting with no apologies and no lack of grace." Julianne J. Smith, Library Journal"

Rad Families: A Celebration honors the messy, the painful, the playful, the beautiful, the myriad ways we create families. This is not an anthology of experts, or how-to articles on perfect parenting; it often doesn’t even try to provide answers. Instead, the writers strive to be honest and vulnerable in sharing their stories and experiences, their failures and their regrets. Gathering parents and writers from diverse communities, it explores the process of getting pregnant from trans birth to adoption, grapples with issues of racism and police brutality, probes raising feminists and feminist parenting. It plumbs the depths of empty nesting and letting go. Some contributors are recognizable authors and activists but most are everyday parents working and loving and trying to build a better world one diaper change at a time. It’s a book that reminds us all that we are not alone, that community can help us get through the difficulties, can, in fact, make us better people. It’s a celebration, join us! Contributors include Jonas Cannon, Ian MacKaye, Burke Stansbury, Danny Goot, Simon Knaphus, Artnoose, Welch Canavan, Daniel Muro LaMere, Jennifer Lewis, Zach Ellis, Alicia Dornadic, Jesse Palmer, Mindi Jackson, Carla Bergman, Rachel Galindo, Robert Trujillo, Dawn Caprice, Shawn Taylor, D.A. Begay, Philana Dollin, Airial Clark, Allison Wolfe, Roger Porter, cubbie rowland-storm, Annakai & Rob Geshlider, Jeremy Adam Smith, Frances Hardinge, Jonathan Shipley, Bronwyn Davies Glover, Amy Abugo Ongiri, Mike Araujo, Craig Elliott, Eleanor Wohlfeiler, Scott Hoshida, Plinio Hernandez, Madison Young, Nathan Torpe, Mike Avila, Sasha Vodnik, Jesse Susannah, Krista Lee Hanson, Carvel Wallace, Dani Burlison, Brian Whitman, scott winn, Kermit Playfoot, Chris Crass, and Zora Moniz.