Jim Goad

James Thaddeus Goad (1960 or 1961) is an American author and publisher. Goad co-authored and published the zine Answer Me! and The Redneck Manifesto.

Background Early life James Thaddeus Goad was born in Ridley Park, Pennsylvania in 1960 or 1961.

1980s–90s Goad graduated in 1985 with a B.A. in Journalism from Temple University while living in New Jersey. In May 1997, Goad began dating then-stripper Anne "Skye" Ryan about the time that Debbie was diagnosed with the ovarian cancer that later killed her. Goad described Ryan as "Sweet Dracula girl" and as being "...fifteen years younger than me and a thousand times more fucked-up."

ANSWER Me!

From 1991 to 1994, Goad self-published four yearly issues of the zine ANSWER Me!, with then-wife Debbie Goad. The Redneck Manifesto: How Hillbillies, Hicks, and White Trash Became America's Scapegoats was published in 1997. The book explores the idea of poor whites celebrating their heritage similar to poor African Americans, and that discrimination in the United States is focused around social class, not race. His thesis is that the rich elite blind the poor, and cause them to fight one another, instead of working together for their mutual benefit.

Shit Magnet Shit Magnet: One Man's Miraculous Ability to Absorb the World's Guilt, is Goad's second book. Major New York publishing houses declined to publish Shit Magnet, and it was published in 2002 by Feral House. The book, written while Goad was in prison, is an autobiography. It examines Goad's childhood, teenage years, his relationships with former wife Debbie Goad and ex-girlfriend Anne Ryan, and reflections about his time in prison and his experience with the judicial system. The book includes great detail about Oregon prison life, including detailed descriptions about fellow prisoners, of whom he writes "forced sterilization maybe wasn't such a bad idea." In 2008, a play titled "Torn Between Two Bitches," was produced in Los Angeles by Michael Sargent, based on Shit Magnet.

Other work Goad wrote a comic called Trucker Fags in Denial, which was originally published as a comic strip in the Portland-based publication Exotic and was published as a comic book by Fantagraphics in 2004. The comic, written by Goad and illustrated by Jim Blanchard, is about two truckers named Butch and Petey. The two characters are homophobic and beat up gays between trucking. The characters contradict their behavior by having a homosexual relationship with each other. Goad came up with the idea for the comic while in prison, where he frequently observed male prisoners insulting each other as being "fags," and as "fagging off,' despite engaging in homosexual acts themselves while incarcerated. The book consists of over 100 articles, op-eds and facts about sex, all written by Goad. Goad has also contributed to Hustler.

Political views Goad is referred to as the "godfather of the new right" and is associated with the alt-right movement, with Proud Boys figure Gavin McInnes citing him as one of his favorite writers. Goad does not consider himself part of the alt-right movement,

Works

Goad, Jim. The Redneck Manifesto: How Hillbillies, Hicks, and White Trash Became America's Scapegoats. New York: Simon & Schuster (1998). Goad, Jim. Shit Magnet: One Man's Miraculous Ability to Absorb the World's Guilt. Port Townsend: Feral House (2002). Goad, Jim & Blanchard, Jim. Trucker Fags in Denial. Seattle: Fantagraphics (2004). Goad, Jim. ANSWER Me!: The First Three. Baltimore: Scapegoat Publishing (2006). Goad, Jim. Jim Goad's Gigantic Book of Sex. Port Townsend: Feral House (2007). Goad, Jim & Kopp, Hollister. Gun Fag Manifesto: Entertainment for the Armed Sociopath. Nine Banded Books/Underworld Amusements (2013). Goad, Jim. The Headache Factory: True Tales of Online Obsession and Madness. New York: Thought Catalog Books (2014). Goad, Jim. Potatoes on the Moon: I Spent a Week Probing the Alien Landscape of Idaho. (2015) Goad, Jim. Life Never Ends Well: A Cavalcade of Murders, Suicides, Accidental Deaths, & Tragic Endings. (2016) Goad, Jim. Whiteness: The Original Sin. (2018) Goad, Jim. The New Church Ladies: The Extremely Uptight World of "Social Justice" (2017). Goad, Jim. The Bomb Inside My Brain. (2019). Goad, Jim. Gender Psychosis. (2020).

Discography Truck Drivin' Psycho 1996 (World Serpent) "Let's Fight!" with Jim Goad 2001 (Exotic) Hatesville, The Boyd Rice Experience, 2009 (Caciocavallo)