I Hope We Choose Love weaves personal storytelling with poetry, criticism, folklore, and political theory. Her expertise as a former therapist enriches her advice column and is also what makes her latest book with Vancouver-based Arsenal Pulp Press, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl’s Notes from the End of the World, an especially thought-provoking read. Kai Cheng Thom may be best known for her personal essays and her advice column in Xtra, “Ask Kai: Advice for the Apocalypse,” though her contributions to feminist, queer, and trans literary culture also include the novel Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir (Metonymy Press) the poetry collection, a place called No Homeland (Arsenal Pulp Press) and a children’s book, From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea (Arsenal Pulp Press). –Kai Cheng Thom, “How Neoliberalism Is Stealing Trans Liberation” My dear trans kindred-weird sisters, brothers grim and gay, siblings-in arms: What kind of world do you want to live in? The 32nd annual Triangle Awards ceremony, originally scheduled for April 30, was cancelled in response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.Reviewed by Jane Shi Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2019), 144 pp., $17.95. How writing poetry helped Kai Cheng Thom find a place to belong The book examines the ways we deal with trauma, abuse, activism, transphobia and racism. Thom's I Hope We Choose Love, which combines poetry and essays, won the Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature. Why Téa Mutonji wanted her first short story collection to challenge what diverse literature is supposed to be

The stories in the collection explore narratives of young women coming of age in the 21st century, dealing with themes of race, class, sexuality, migration and femininity.

Mutonji's debut short story collection Shut Up You're Pretty received the Edmund White Award for debut fiction. Winners were honoured across seven categories, including lesbian nonfiction, gay nonfiction, lesbian poetry, gay poetry, LGBTQ fiction, debut fiction and trans and gender-variant literature. The Publishing Triangle Awards, worth $1,000, annually honour the best in LGBTQ literature. Canadian writers Téa Mutonji and Kai Cheng Thom are among the seven winners of the 2020 Publishing Triangle Awards, with their books Shut Up You're Pretty and I Hope We Choose Love, respectively.

I hope we choose love by kai cheng thom