For 15 years, I hoped my words would change something. Now I’m grieving the world that could’ve been
Kai Cheng Thom
Kai Cheng Thom is a writer, performer, and social worker who divides her heart between Montreal and Toronto, unceded Indigenous territories. She is the author of the Lambda Award-nominated novel Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir (Metonymy Press), as well as the poetry collection a place called No Homeland (Arsenal Pulp Press). Her latest book, Falling Back in Love with Being Human, a collection of letters and poetry, is out now from Penguin Random House Canada.
Cancel culture favours punishment over solidarity. It’s time to let it go
Queer and social justice movements must reject cancel culture to meet the moment
How the trans rights struggle affects everyone
OPINION: Precedents set by anti-trans movements are driven by the idea that the government and private institutions should have the power to police us all
We must live for one another
ANALYSIS: Community-based suicide intervention is about creating a web of life between our bodies where we can take turns resting and being held when we are overwhelmed
Trans representation isn’t trans liberation
OPINION: Even at its zenith, the trendiness of “diversity” appears to have done little to improve the day-to-day lives of trans people as a vulnerable and exploited class
Why is the anti-trans movement so obsessed with trans women?
Our bodies are constantly the subject of what would be called sexual harassment if it were done to anyone else
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