Winner,
Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender Variant Literature;
American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book
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
polarization, for healing in a time of justice, and for love in an
apocalypse.