Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World by Kai Cheng Thom

19 reviews

hawk_just_hawk's review against another edition

I don’t exist on the internet and I find that I don’t enjoy pieces that were born as internet think pieces. My queer and trans community looks very different from the one she describes, so I did not find that I related to what she was talking about. It’s well-written and interesting, though!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide, Transphobia, Homophobia, and Toxic relationship

aehmyers's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced

5.0

A collection of short essays and poems that give voice to the pain and joy of trans-womaness, of a Chinese woman, of a person still searching for love and hope at the end of the world. It is a critique of kindness towards the queer community, and a hope for what it could be.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Suicide and Suicide attempt

moonyreadsbystarlight's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective

4.0

This collection of essays and poetry is about queer community, how we love and what we can do to love better and be the key to each other's thriving (not just survival). She lays bare the ways in which people fail to love each other fully, gives us a look into ways people do love and continue to love, and (most importantly) asks us to imagine a world where we do embrace love and to think about how we can get there. 

There were a couple of pieces that I wish she had expanded on more or made certain points more clear, but there were so many amazing essays in here! I'm definitely excited to check out her other works.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, Suicide, and Transphobia

Moderate: Death, Violence, and Homophobia

lettuce_read's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Mental illness, and Suicide

Minor: Racism

bi_n_large's review

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Transphobia, and Self harm

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Racism, Murder, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Hate crime, and Gun violence

Minor: Sexual assault, Physical abuse, and Rape

solenodon's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

I want everyone to read this book tbh

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship

Moderate: Transphobia, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Violence, Sexual violence, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Death, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, and Grief

Minor: Sexual harassment, Infertility, Drug use, Alcohol, Colonisation, Medical content, Stalking, Homophobia, Dysphoria, Forced institutionalization, and Emotional abuse

thewordsdevourer's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

simply incredible. i hope we choose love is a rare feat, jam-packed w/ brutal honesty, startling vulnerability, tentative love and hope, and reflective rumination on mental illness and rarely examined topics such as queer community and its internal issues, today's social justice landscape, and ofc trans identity and community, seen through the author's complex lens as a trans woman of color. once in a blue moon, a book comes along, parts the veil in front of my eyes, and completely changes the way i view things. this is such a book and it's a marvel.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Transphobia, Violence, Mental illness, and Suicide

Moderate: Physical abuse, Hate crime, Death, Murder, Classism, Racism, and Misogyny

Minor: Suicide attempt, Stalking, Colonisation, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment

kaarna's review

challenging reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Suicide

tangleroot_eli's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

Complicated feelings about this one. I agree with many of Thom’s points and am sitting with many others. And a trans woman of the global majority’s rage and sadness are always understandable. And yet, in this book supposedly about love, I find very little love. Or maybe Thom and I just have vastly different understandings of love. I’m sitting with that, too.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Suicide, Transphobia, and Mental illness

natyosch's review against another edition

dark funny hopeful inspiring medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide, Transphobia, and Violence