![]() ![]() ![]() (Mike Coppola/Getty Images, Tranna Wintour) ![]() Tranna Wintour holds her rare copy of the book Sex by Madonna, who is pictured above at the Met Gala in 2017. How writing poetry helped Kai Cheng Thom find a place to belong This book shows us the possibilities of strength, humour and vulnerability, and it can help us, the often oblivious members of the cis-gendered mainstream, to understand life beyond the binary. By turning tragedy - the violence against trans bodies - into a poetic, empowering and hilarious adventure, Thom proves that confronting and channelling our rage can be empowering and healing. "This pulsing piece of writing brought me to a never-identified rainy West Coast metropolis where the protagonist (Thom herself?), a young trans woman of Chinese descent, joins a sisterhood of vigilante femmes who seek revenge from violent men. My friend Jocelyn, a gay man like me, is trying to make his way through some great American novel set in 1970s New York City while I can't put down this surrealist memoir by writer Kai Cheng Thom. Sitting on a long chair by the Caribbean Sea, the Cuban resort is populated by cis-gendered, heterosexual couples. Thomas Leblanc: "I can still place myself in the memory of reading Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars. Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars, published in 2016, was Kai Cheng Thom's first novel. ![]()
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