I Hope We Choose Love

A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

Kai Cheng Thom

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English

Arsenal Pulp Press
12 November 2019

Social services & welfare, criminology

Essays on love, mercy, and forgiveness as political values in these polarising times, by the acclaimed trans poet and prose writer, Kai Cheng Thom.

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, 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 polarisation, for healing in a time of justice, and for love in an apocalypse.

By: Kai Cheng Thom
Imprint: Arsenal Pulp Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 222g
ISBN: 9781551527758
ISBN 10: 1551527758
Pages: 144
Publication Date: 12 November 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Kai Cheng Thom is a writer, performer, and community worker based in Toronto, unceded Indigenous territory. She is the winner of the 2017 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for Emerging LGBT Writers and a two-time Lambda Literary nominee. She has published widely, including the novel Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars, the poetry collection a place called No Homeland, and (with Wai-Yant Li and Kai Yun Ching) the children's picture book From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea.

Reviews for I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

"""This enlightened essay collection is both an invocation of and invitation to love - with intention - as a way to repair, rebuild and reimagine new worlds. I hope readers will choose to take up Kai Cheng Thom's fiery call to arms."" --Vivek Shraya, author of I'm Afraid of Men and even this page is white ""In this brave and skillfully written collection of essays, Kai Cheng Thom dares to be really honest -- to write truths that go beyond easy orthodoxy to her and our own messy, complex, real stories. This is an essential text for everyone trying like hell to create something that will come after the end of the world. Read it, and prepare to have your mind challenged and opened."" --Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, author of Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice"