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I Hope We Choose Love

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

Kai Cheng Thom

Ages 15+

Readers rate it 4.5 (17 on Hardcover)

120 pages · Released Oct 15, 2019

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This is a sophisticated collection of personal essays and prose poetry addressing heavy themes including sexual violence, transphobia, and systemic injustice—written for mature teen and adult readers. While the author's stated purpose is healing and choosing love over violence, the book engages directly with trauma, loss, and despair in ways that require emotional readiness. The work offers genuine intellectual and emotional value for older teens ready to wrestle with complex social and political questions.

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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 f... 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.

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  • Social Science
  • female author
  • independent
  • hopeful
  • challenging
  • emotional
  • reflective
  • inspiring
  • LGBTQ
  • Poetry
  • Philosophy
  • Biography & Autobiography

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ISBN 9781551527765 · arsenal pulp press

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