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This is Dad//Citizen, a space where parenting and civicness come together. Where we try to make our communities a little bit better, every day.
Dad/Citizen officially hit 100 subscribers!
When I first saw that number I didn’t think it was real. In context of other wildly successful publications it’s very small small, but to me it feels very meaningful at the same time. One hundred people, many of whom I don’t know personally, decided this was worth their inbox. That’s amazing.
If something you’ve read here has stuck with you, made you think, or felt true in a way you couldn’t quite put into words before, please share it with someone. Forward it. Text it to someone. Maybe even… post it somewhere!
The full library can be found here!
On that thought, think about your circle for a second. Do you have a friend who just became a dad, or is about to? Maybe he’s navigating parental leave and trying to figure out what that transition actually looks like, I wrote about that here. Or maybe he’s in the thick of early fatherhood, wondering what’s happening to his brain and his sense of self, that too.
Do you know someone who is married to or dating a new or expecting dad? Someone you might want to send something to and say, “I thought of you when I read this.”
Do you have a friend who cares deeply about their community, who votes, who shows up, who wonders how to pass that instinct on to their kids? There’s tons here for them, like this!
Is there someone in your life who is doing the work of parenting and citizenship at the same time, trying to hold both, and not seeing that reflected back at them very often?
That’s who this is for.
Getting to 100 happened because you shared, forwarded, or recommended this to someone. The next hundred will happen the same way. Not as a broadcast, but as a tap on the shoulder. A “hey, I think you’d like this.”
So if something here has been worth your time, I’d be grateful if you passed it along. A share, a forward, a recommendation to one person, that’s how this community builds itself.
Thank you for being here. Genuinely.
Thanks for reading Dad//Citizen. Please use this space to engage with people and ideas, build community, and invite others in to think, show up, and stay connected.