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episode 10: Kai Cheng Thom

Episode Summary

A conversation with Kai Cheng Thom, author of several books, including I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World.

Episode Notes

I talk with Kai Cheng Thom about everything from writing for children and her perennial influences to how her creative work intersects with her embodiment and loving justice work.

Works by Kai Cheng Thom that are mentioned: 

• Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir
• I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes at the End of the World
• A Place Called No Homeland
• From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea
• For Laika, the Dog Who Learned the Names of the Stars
• So You’re Ready To Choose Love: Trauma-informed Conflict Transformation for Social Justice & Spiritual Growth workbook

Some of the works/writers mentioned in this episode: 

• Donald Winnicott
• Carl Jung
• jaye simpson
• Ursula K. Le Guin
• Megan Milks 's Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body
• Alexis Pauline Gumbs's Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals
• Eleanor Coerr's Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
• John Fox's The Boys on the Rock
• Joey Comeau's Lockpick Pornography
• Sarah Polley's Run Towards the Danger 
• Katherine Applegate's Animorphs series
• Octavia Butler's Wild Seed

The episode transcript will be uploaded in the not-too-distant future. (Sorry!)

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