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Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir by Kai Cheng Thom
5.0
Kai Cheng Thom has written a surreal piece of auto-fiction, that feels both like a letter of love, and the speaking-of-life into dreams for every trans woman and fierce femme. Her 'memoir' bursts with magic and dangerous women empowered.
Our heroine narrates her own story, from escaping the locked doors of her childhood home, in the bleak-grey of a city called Gloom, to the glittering smoke that is the Street of Miracles... Where she finds herself, her trans sisters, her gang of Lipstick Lacerators, her first love, and where she learns that to stop hurting others she must first stop hurting herself.
I adored the fast paced beauty and unapologetic fire of Kai Cheng Thom's story. It's a kind of trans coming-of-age novel, where you might watch, unsurprised, as Salvadore Dali's clocks melt in the sky, while mermaids the size of humpbacked whales heave themselves onto beaches in protest at humanity's destruction of the earth. Utterly fabulous.
Our heroine narrates her own story, from escaping the locked doors of her childhood home, in the bleak-grey of a city called Gloom, to the glittering smoke that is the Street of Miracles... Where she finds herself, her trans sisters, her gang of Lipstick Lacerators, her first love, and where she learns that to stop hurting others she must first stop hurting herself.
I adored the fast paced beauty and unapologetic fire of Kai Cheng Thom's story. It's a kind of trans coming-of-age novel, where you might watch, unsurprised, as Salvadore Dali's clocks melt in the sky, while mermaids the size of humpbacked whales heave themselves onto beaches in protest at humanity's destruction of the earth. Utterly fabulous.