Falling back in love with being human : letters to lost souls / Kai Cheng Thom.
"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, prostitutes, 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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593594988
- ISBN: 0593594983
- Physical Description: 163 pages ; 18 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York : The Dial Press, [2023]
- Copyright: ©2023
Content descriptions
| Formatted Contents Note: | Dear reader -- To the ones whose bodies shall shake the heavens -- To a lost sister -- To the ones who didn't cry -- To the compulsive caregivers -- To the girl trying to be a magic mirror when she is in fact a secret door -- To the sisterhood of trans femmes -- To a trans femme of color child from a trans femme of color ancestor -- To all the boys I've loved before who didn't love me back -- To the confabulists -- To the fantasy man I still long for -- To the deathwalkers -- To the church of social justice -- To Jesus Christ -- To the runaways -- To the martyrs -- To the goddesss of whores and all her children -- To the Johns -- To the trans exclusionary radical feminists -- To J.K. Rowling -- To the ones who hurt me -- To the ones who watched -- To the goddess of vengeance and the goddess of mercy -- To the exiled -- To the ones who disappeared -- To a girl who has forgotten who she is in the fog of late-stage digital capitalism -- To the Animorphs -- To the sidekicks -- To the outlaws -- To the ones this world was never made for -- To me, from a revolutionary trans femme of color living in the distant future. |
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| Subject: | Letter writing > Poetry. Transgender women > Poetry. Trans women. |
| Genre: | Poetry. |
Additional Physical Form Titles
| Falling back in love with being human. |
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| Harmony Branch Library | 811.6 THO (Text) | 33114018639872 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
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