51enm - Dads and Daughters

Source: www.dadsanddaughters.org

For those of us whose activism also includes public and private work to be involved and supportive parents, I wanted to mention this organization, founded by Joe Kelly in Duluth, Minnesota. To my mind, Kelly is one of the many unsung profeminist heroes. He and his wife, Nancy, home-schooled their two daughters, and the four of them noticed the absolute dearth of positive images for girls. So they set about creating some of their own -- and their daughters edited and published NEW MOON - a magazine for and about girls. It's terrific, entirely produced and distributed by girls. (I've bought subscriptions for several of my friends' daughters.) This year, the girls are laucnching a book series -- again, entirely written by, edited and produced by girls -- published, though byb a major New York publisher (Crown.)

Last year, Joe felt there were simple not enough resources for fathers of daughters -- for men who wanted to support their daughters' struggle for autonomy and integrity in a patriarchal world. So he started Dads and Daughters. Here's it's tag line:

>Dads and Daughters is the national nonprofit membership organization of fathers with daughters. DADs provides tools to strengthen our relationships with our daughters and to transform the pervasive messages that value our daughters more for how they look than who they are.

We welcome your comments!

Dads and Daughters, PO Box 3458, Duluth, MN 55803. 888-824-3237. website: www.dadsanddaughters.org