Queer community doesn’t lack for discourse around sexual abuse. Yet for all of our talk, not much seems to have significantly changed—there are still victims, and there are still abusers.
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.
What I learned, loved and lost as a trans Zumba addict
Finding a physical activity that I loved came at the cost of putting up with countless small acts of hostility
My mother’s daughter, my father’s son: a trans Chinese woman on finding joy in the ancestral rites of death
How I honoured Chinese funeral tradition, my family and queerness at my grandfather’s funeral
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