Overview

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.

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""Nicky Endres is the perfect narrator for this work of queer nonfiction, first published in 2019 and now available on audio. Thom's essays explore the contradictions and complexities of queer and trans communities and social justice movements...Thom's prose is scathing and conversational, and Endres captures both modes...An essential listen for anyone doing social justice work."" -- ""AudioFile""

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Kai Cheng Thom is a writer, performer, and community worker based in Toronto, unceded Indigenous territory. She is the winner of the 2017 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for Emerging LGBT Writers and a two-time Lambda Literary nominee. She has published widely, including the novel Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars, the poetry collection a place called No Homeland, and (with Wai-Yant Li and Kai Yun Ching) the children's picture book From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea. Nicky Endres (they/she) is an award-winning audiobook narrator with keen comedic timing who has long challenged cultural categories to forge their own way. An adopted Asian American non-binary transfeminine queer actor known for perceptive characters with heart, smarts, and a little sass, Nicky has enjoyed a wide variety of roles both on-camera and behind the mic-notably in The Dropout, NCIS: Los Angeles, One Day at a Time, Veneno, Lookism, Strange Planet, and Starfield. Nicky specializes in gender transformation, bringing both versatility and authenticity to intersectional queer identities. Although the pitch and texture of Nicky's signature sultry sonacy can range from baritone to alto, lending itself to characters of all genders, their natural non-binary trans voice isn't so much a sound as it is a perspective. Nicky Endres (they/she) is an award-winning audiobook narrator with keen comedic timing who has long challenged cultural categories to forge their own way. An adopted Asian American non-binary transfeminine queer actor known for perceptive characters with heart, smarts, and a little sass, Nicky has enjoyed a wide variety of roles both on-camera and behind the mic-notably in The Dropout, NCIS: Los Angeles, One Day at a Time, Veneno, Lookism, Strange Planet, and Starfield. Nicky specializes in gender transformation, bringing both versatility and authenticity to intersectional queer identities. Although the pitch and texture of Nicky's signature sultry sonacy can range from baritone to alto, lending itself to characters of all genders, their natural non-binary trans voice isn't so much a sound as it is a perspective.

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