Kai Cheng Thom Livres

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

A magical gender variant child brings transformation and change to the world around them thanks to their mother's enduring love.

The heart-rending story of Laika, the brave space traveler, by the co-authors of From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea.

Fiction. LGBTQIA Studies. Asian and Asian American Studies. Young Adult. FIERCE FEMMES AND NOTORIOUS LIARS: A DANGEROUS TRANS GIRL'S CONFABULOUS MEMOIR is the highly sensational, ultra-exciting, sort-of true coming-of-age story of a young Asian trans girl, pathological liar, and kung-fu expert who runs away from her parents' abusive home in a rainy city called Gloom. Striking off on her own, she finds her true family in a group of larger-than-life trans femmes who live in a mysterious pleasure district known only as the Street of Miracles. Under the wings of this fierce and fabulous flock, the protagonist blossoms into the woman she has always dreamed of being, with a little help from the unscrupulous Doctor Crocodile. When one of their number is brutally murdered, she joins her sisters in forming a vigilante gang to fight back against the transphobes, violent johns, and cops that stalk the Street of Miracles. But when things go terribly wrong, she must find the truth within herself in order to stop the violence and discover what it really means to grow up and find your family.

"Kai Cheng Thom grew up a Chinese Canadian transgender girl in a hostile world. As an activist, psychotherapist, conflict mediator, spiritual healer, and celebrated writer, 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 each other, and barely clinging on 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. Kai Cheng began writing letters to everyone she has trouble holding in her heart-those seemingly beyond saving. She wrote to dead people, exes, prositutes, johns, monsters, transphobes, and racists; to the fantasy man she still longs for, to the ones who hurt her, and to the ones who watched. In writing these love letters, Kai Cheng found herself not only rediscovering and deepening her faith in humanity, but falling back in love with being human"-- Provided by publisher

In einem kleinen blauen Haus wird Miu Lan geboren, ein Kind, das sich in jede Gestalt verwandeln kann, aber nicht weiß, ob es ein Junge oder ein Mädchen sein möchte. In der Schule erlebt es Ausgrenzung, findet aber Trost und Unterstützung bei seiner Mutter. Ein liebevolles Bilderbuch über Gender und Identität.

Kai Cheng Thom schreibt über Gewalt, Konsens, Mittäter*innenschaft, (Wahl-) Familie, Rache und Vergebung. Mit Hingabe, Humor und beißender Ehrlichkeit sucht Für die Liebe entscheiden nach dem Gefühl, das nach Call-Out-Culture, #MeToo und dem „Transgender Tipping-Point“ in uns zurückgeblieben ist. Wie machen wir jetzt weiter? Wie sehen unsere Wunden aus und wie können wir sie versorgen? Jedes Essay trifft einen wunden Punkt in uns und wir haben nur darauf gewartet, uns in Antwort darauf für die Liebe zu entscheiden.