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I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World by Kai Cheng Thom

3 reviews

dytiscusfriend's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

Kai Cheng Thom is remarkable in her ability to write incisively nuanced takes. Her writing is grounding, healing, painful, and needed. Her generosity, humility, and unapologetic love (especially for herself) is extraordinary and a salve in this era of twitter hot takes.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Addiction, Body shaming, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Hate crime, Misogyny, Murder, Police brutality, Racism, Rape, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Transphobia, and Xenophobia

alayamorning's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, and Transphobia

rigbees's review

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.25

Kai Cheng Tom thoughtfully discusses a number of issues affecting letting LGBTQIA+ communities. I found a lot of my experiences seen by these essays and her analysis to be intelligent and empathetic. Deep reading for those wondering how we build sustaining communities.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Homophobia, Transphobia, Sexual assault, and Hate crime

Moderate: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Grief, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Police brutality, and Rape