![]() ![]() ![]() The author of several books, whose most recent work I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl’s Notes from the End of the World is a collection of essays with titles ranging from “Rediscovering Identity at My Grandfather’s Funeral” to “Chronicle of a Rape Foretold,” has been self-professedly obsessed with the end of the world for five years now. “Okay, let’s be terrified together,” Kai suggested, inviting her audience in the Coach House into an hour-long talk that wove poetry, psychology, meditation and comedy together into an experience that was intellectual, emotional and healing.īeing terrified together, it transpired, was the moral and theme of Kai’s talk. ![]() “I’m just delighted and also terrified, and I wanted you to know that in advance,” Kai Cheng Thom began, before adding, “maybe, some of you are also terrified.” She asked the audience to raise their hands if this was the first (or one of the first) public events they had attended since the beginning of the pandemic, and a forest of hands quickly sprouted up before her. ![]()
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