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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.
Trans kids are people, not property
OPINION: Conservative politicians across Canada have signalled their support for so-called “parental rights.” But children and youth have rights of their own
In the midst of despair, how do you find the will to go on?
“We have a calling, here in this decaying world, and that is to live and to serve life with every precious breath that is gifted to us”
My new date is not as political as I am. Is our relationship destined to fail?
A self-proclaimed “lefty queer” questions whether they can find true love with a “gay liberal”
How can I get closure without accountability?
Kai advises a reader who is having trouble moving on from a years-old hurt
I’ve met someone amazing, but I can’t stand the way he smells. How do I talk to him about it?
Kai weighs in on how to have a “scentsitive” conversation with a new date