The Daddies

Written by Kimberly Dark

Narrated by Kimberly Dark

A love letter to masculinity, and an indictment of patriarchy.

How do you invest in a relationship built on deception, then break up without destroying everything? Is it possible to leave love intact but transformed?

THE DADDIES is a story about love and grief – how it hurts to change, even when change is needed. Using hybrid narrative, magical realism and pop-culture analysis, THE DADDIES offers a dark love letter to masculinity told as a lesbian leather-Daddy love story. The story follows a break-up between adults, lovers, but the metanarrative is about our cultural need to break-up with patriarchy, while still holding onto love for masculinity. THE DADDIES is about the pain of change, an unflinching tour through the pleasures and horrors of domination.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Brill Publishers
• Release date: May 1, 2019
• ISBN: 9781987182811

Kimberly Dark

Kimberly Dark is a writer, professor, and raconteur. She has written award-winning plays, and taught and performed for a wide range of audiences in various countries over the past two decades. She is the author of Fat, Pretty, and Soon to be Old; The Daddies; Love and Errors; and co-editor of the anthology Ways of Being in Teaching.