I Hope We Choose Love : A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World by Kai Cheng Thom (2019, Trade Paperback)

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I Hope We Choose Love : A Trans Girl’s Notes from the End of the World, Paperback by Thom, Kai Cheng, ISBN 1551527758, ISBN-13 9781551527758, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Essays on love, mercy, and forgiveness as political values in these polarizing times, by the acclaimed trans poet and prose writer.

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PublisherArsenal Pulp Press
ISBN-101551527758
ISBN-139781551527758
eBay Product ID (ePID)8038435810

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Book TitleI Hope We Choose Love : a Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World
Number of Pages144 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicLgbt Studies / General, Women's Studies, Lgbt
Publication Year2019
GenreSocial Science, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorKai Cheng Thom
FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight7.8 Oz
Item Length7.9 in
Item Width5.8 in

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Dewey Edition23
Reviews"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, "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
Dewey Decimal818.609
SynopsisEssays 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., Essays on love, mercy, and forgiveness as political values in these polarising times, by the acclaimed trans poet and prose writer., 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., 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., In a heartbreaking yet hopeful collection of personal essays and prose poems, blending the confessional, political, and literary, an acclaimed trans poet and prose writer dives deep into the questions that haunt social movements today.
LC Classification NumberPR9199.4.T446

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