How I honoured Chinese funeral tradition, my family and queerness at my grandfather’s funeral
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.
How the Cheongsam helped me find my trans womanhood
The more I am told that the traditional dress of my ancestors will never be mine, the more stubbornly I try to squeeze my body into its confines
What nobody tells you about being a trans woman of colour author
When mainstream media decides to make public figures out of us, you learn that rising to the top is lonely