I Hope We Choose Love : A Trans Girl-s Notes from the End of the World

Essays on love, mercy, and forgiveness as political values in these polarising times, by the acclaimed trans poet and prose writer, Kai Cheng Thom.

What can we hope for at the end of the world? What can we trust in when community has broken our hearts? What would it mean to pursue justice without violence? How can we love in the absence of faith? In a heartbreaking yet hopeful collection of personal essays and prose poems, blending the confessional, political, and literary, Kai Cheng Thom dives deep into the questions that haunt social movements today. With the author's characteristic eloquence and honesty, I Hope We Choose Love proposes heartfelt solutions on the topics of violence, complicity, family, vengeance, and forgiveness.

Taking its cues from contemporary thought leaders in the transformative justice movement such as Adrienne Maree Brown and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, this provocative book is a call for nuance in a time of political polarisation, for healing in a time of justice, and for love in an apocalypse.

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Featured in the October 2019 Sociology + Social Work newsletter.
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