I hope we choose love : a trans girl's notes from the end of the world /
Thom, Kai Cheng,
I hope we choose love : a trans girl's notes from the end of the world / Kai Cheng Thom. - 155 pages : portrait ; 21 cm
Essays.
Introduction : With Love, from the End of the World -- Part 1. Let us live -- Righteous Callings : Being Good, Leftist Orthodoxy, and the Social Justice Crisis of Faith -- you are allowed to leave -- We Need to Confront a Culture of Enabling in Queer Community -- does pain make you valid -- Genie, You're Free : Robin Williams, Mental Health, and the Stories We Tell about Suicide -- if you should start to think forbidden thoughts -- Stop Letting Trans Girls Kill Ourselves -- dear goddess -- Part 2. Let us love -- Chronicle of a Rape Foretold : Holding Queer Community to Account -- how many times? -- Complications of Consent -- boundaries i -- Melting the Ice around #MeToo Stories in Queer Community -- boundaries ii -- I Hope We Choose Love : Notes on the Application of Justice -- the witch's manifesto : a freakish ethics for fearsome living in the monstrous world -- A School for Storytellers -- how can i feel homesick? -- Part 3. Let us believe -- How Neoliberalism Is Stealing Trans Liberation -- siblings -- The Ties That Bind, the Family You Find, Or : Why I Hate Babies -- there's another girl out there -- Rediscovering Identity at My Grandfather's Funeral : An Ethnic Trans Story -- trauma said -- The Chinese Transsexual's Guide to Cheongsam -- growing -- Where Did She Go? A Trans Girl Ghost Story -- what does it mean? -- Dear, Dear Life -- for girls who are addicted to hurting themselves.
"What can we hope for at the end of the world? What can we trust in when community has broken our hearts? What would it mean to pursue justice without violence? How can we love in the absence of faith? In a heartbreaking yet hopeful collection of personal essays and prose poems, blending the confessional, political, and literary, acclaimed poet and essayist Kai Cheng Thom dives deep into the questions that haunt social movements today. With the author's characteristic eloquence and honesty, I Hope We Choose Love proposes heartfelt solutions on the topics of violence, complicity, family, vengeance, and forgiveness. Taking its cues from contemporary thought leaders in the transformative justice movement such as adrienne maree brown and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, this provocative book is a call for nuance in a time of political polarization, for healing in a time of justice, and for love in an apocalypse."--
9781551527758 1551527758
20190124989 can
019906462 Uk
Thom, Kai Cheng.
Essays.
Love--Philosophy.
Transgender people--Canada.
Forgiveness.
Conduct of life.
Biographies.
Essays.
Poetry.
I hope we choose love : a trans girl's notes from the end of the world / Kai Cheng Thom. - 155 pages : portrait ; 21 cm
Essays.
Introduction : With Love, from the End of the World -- Part 1. Let us live -- Righteous Callings : Being Good, Leftist Orthodoxy, and the Social Justice Crisis of Faith -- you are allowed to leave -- We Need to Confront a Culture of Enabling in Queer Community -- does pain make you valid -- Genie, You're Free : Robin Williams, Mental Health, and the Stories We Tell about Suicide -- if you should start to think forbidden thoughts -- Stop Letting Trans Girls Kill Ourselves -- dear goddess -- Part 2. Let us love -- Chronicle of a Rape Foretold : Holding Queer Community to Account -- how many times? -- Complications of Consent -- boundaries i -- Melting the Ice around #MeToo Stories in Queer Community -- boundaries ii -- I Hope We Choose Love : Notes on the Application of Justice -- the witch's manifesto : a freakish ethics for fearsome living in the monstrous world -- A School for Storytellers -- how can i feel homesick? -- Part 3. Let us believe -- How Neoliberalism Is Stealing Trans Liberation -- siblings -- The Ties That Bind, the Family You Find, Or : Why I Hate Babies -- there's another girl out there -- Rediscovering Identity at My Grandfather's Funeral : An Ethnic Trans Story -- trauma said -- The Chinese Transsexual's Guide to Cheongsam -- growing -- Where Did She Go? A Trans Girl Ghost Story -- what does it mean? -- Dear, Dear Life -- for girls who are addicted to hurting themselves.
"What can we hope for at the end of the world? What can we trust in when community has broken our hearts? What would it mean to pursue justice without violence? How can we love in the absence of faith? In a heartbreaking yet hopeful collection of personal essays and prose poems, blending the confessional, political, and literary, acclaimed poet and essayist Kai Cheng Thom dives deep into the questions that haunt social movements today. With the author's characteristic eloquence and honesty, I Hope We Choose Love proposes heartfelt solutions on the topics of violence, complicity, family, vengeance, and forgiveness. Taking its cues from contemporary thought leaders in the transformative justice movement such as adrienne maree brown and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, this provocative book is a call for nuance in a time of political polarization, for healing in a time of justice, and for love in an apocalypse."--
9781551527758 1551527758
20190124989 can
019906462 Uk
Thom, Kai Cheng.
Essays.
Love--Philosophy.
Transgender people--Canada.
Forgiveness.
Conduct of life.
Biographies.
Essays.
Poetry.