I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781551527758)

Winner, Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender Variant Literature; American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book

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

Author: Kai Cheng Thom
ISBN-10: 1551527758
ISBN-13: 9781551527758
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
Language: English
Published: 10/15/2019
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.90w x 0.50d

Review Citation(s):
Shelf Awareness 10/29/2019