On the last day of March we're hosting a conversation with two authors we adore: Dean Spade and Kai Cheng Thom! Join online to discuss how we can be the change we want to seeβ€”both out in the world, and in our closest connections. Dean's new book "Love in a F*cked-Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell Together" is a resounding call to action and a practical manifesto for how to combat cultural scripts and take our relationships into our own hands.

This event is also a fundraiser for families in Gaza and attendees are asked to make a donation in lieu of ticket cost. Live ASL interpretation will be provided.

Register for this virtual event and find your copy of "Love in a F*cked-Up World" at https://firestorm.coop/events/3339-hooking-up-raising-hell-a-conversation-with-dean-spade-and-kai-cheng-thom.html. Can't make the live event? Sign up anyway, pitch in on the fundraiser if you can, and we'll send you a recording of the event to stream at your convenience!

#ThePersonalIsPolitical #FreePalestine #FeministBookstore #QueerSouth #Abolitionism #DeanSpade #KaiChengThom #FirestormCoop (- L)

Hooking Up & Raising Hell: A Conversation with Dean Spade and Kai Cheng Thom

A virtual conversation between two of our favorite authors tackles how our interpersonal relationships are connected to our politics of liberation and resistance!

Hey. The election is coming up and it's got me feeling pretty bad.

So I re-read Kai Cheng Thom's "Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls" and it really made me feel a lot better.

It's not really election related, but it always restores my faith in humanity - and my faith in my own humanity.

#poetry #KaiChengThom #love

Breaking the chains of self-hate: trans author Kai Cheng Thom’s message to queers and lost souls

In honor of her publication day, Reckon sat down with the Chinese Canadian trans writer who confronts hard feelings in her newest collection of love letters to dead people, weirdos, exes, transphobes and more.

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I'm amazed that she managed to explain this all so perfectly in a single tweet.

https://twitter.com/razorfemme/status/1542525913736388613

#socialmedia #twitter #transmisogyny #kaichengthom

"Knives" Cheng, MSc, MSW, QMed, Extremist for Love on Twitter

β€œSo much of the queer community's stance toward trans women/femmes is "be my perfect sexy yet proper, grounded yet youthful, radical yet non-threatening, inspiring yet humble, well-spoken yet down-to-earth mommy-girlfriend, or we'll call you a man and kill you."”

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This conference (http://bit.ly/3koeyfC) is coming up and ngl, finding joy in #HigherEd is not easy and the road to #ReimagineTeaching is long. I look always to
#adriennemareebrown #ResmaaMenakem #KaiChengThom #ShawnGinwright, #BellHooks and so many others for inspiration and guidance. Thank you for blessing us with your light and joy.
#TraumaResponsiveEducation #TraumaResponsive #AdultEducation #AdultLearning #JoyfulTeaching #ReimagineEducation @edutooters #EduTooter @edutooter #EduToot
(re)Imagining Equity in Higher Ed Winter 2023

An Interactive Community of Inquiry for Staff, Faculty & Administrators

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"There is a certain desire that the parents I see express, which I think is mirrored in many – if not all – marginalized people. I feel it in myself. It is the desire to live the life of the privileged class, to exist as though one were not marked as different, to fit inside the system the way white, middle-class people do."

- #KaiChengThom, 2018

https://www.them.us/story/trans-visibility-does-not-equal-trans-liberation

Trans Visibility Does Not Equal Trans Liberation

"We must remember that representation and revolution are not at all the same thing."

"Instead of being able to gain access to resources, we are given representation in mainstream media β€” a perk that helps us enjoy television and movies while continuing to suffer homelessness and joblessness. Instead of being granted freedom, we are being sold a product: an illusion of 'equality' that is ultimately empty."

- #KaiChengThom, 2018

https://www.them.us/story/trans-visibility-does-not-equal-trans-liberation

Trans Visibility Does Not Equal Trans Liberation

"We must remember that representation and revolution are not at all the same thing."