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Being a Good Dad Means Being a Feminist Dad
My new book, Father Figure: How to Be a Feminist Dad, will be published on May 11 — many months from now. But I’ve already started promoting it. Almost every day, I’m recording podcast interviews, or responding to emails and calls from journalists. The other night, I participated in my first ever event on the trendy new Clubhouse app.
The transition from writing to promoting is the weirdest part of being an author. If you think Facebook creates an echo chamber, try living with only your own ideas long enough to finish a book. Muses start to feel like demons, waking me up in the middle of the night, demanding I scribble down yet another note, with one more way to reframe the same idea.
For the past year, I’ve been a recluse — researching, thinking, typing, revising alone. Now, I’m suddenly talking to other people about things that were once sheltered in my mind. And the initial reactions have been surprising. Maybe someone else could’ve predicted that people would struggle to make sense of a book about feminism written by a man, for dads. But I didn’t see it coming.
Maybe someone else could’ve predicted that people would struggle to make sense of a book about feminism written by a man, for dads. But I didn’t see it coming.
