"Kai Cheng Thom grew up a Chinese Canadian transgender girl in a hostile world. As an activist, psychotherapist, conflict mediator, and spiritual healer, she’s always pursued the same deeply personal mission: to embrace the revolutionary belief that every human being, no matter how hateful or horrible, is intrinsically sacred.
But then Kai Cheng found herself in a crisis of faith, overwhelmed by the viciousness with which people treated one another, and barely clinging to the values and ideals she’d built her life around: justice, hope, love, and healing. Rather than succumb to despair and cynicism, she gathered all her rage and grief and took one last leap of faith: she wrote. Whether prayers or spells or poems—and whether there’s a difference—she wrote to affirm the outcasts and runaways she calls her kin. She wrote to flawed but nonetheless lovable men, to people with good intentions who harm their own, to racists and transphobes seemingly beyond saving. What emerged was a blueprint for falling back in love with being human."
Kai Cheng Thom is a Canadian writer, performance artist, and community healer. She is known for her work as a non-binary trans woman and has published several books, including the novel Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir (2016), the poetry collection a place called No Homeland (2017), a children’s book From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea (2017), and a book of essays I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl’s Notes from the End of the World (2019).
Her first book was shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction, and she has won the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers. Thom’s work has been recognized for its creativity and contribution to discussions on transformative justice.
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