![]() ![]() Role reversal of the stereotypically, tragic portrayal of trans womenĬharacters - rather than simply experiencing the violence of a Fierce Femmes is a response to all that, and a They were denied opportunities to publish in more creative andįantastical ways. ![]() That are intended to educate cis people about the reality of trans life. Generations, trans writers have been pigeonholed into writing memoirs "The basic idea for Fierce Femmes was to create a loving homageĪnd critical re-imagining of the transgender memoir genre. ![]() It’s a story of broken hearts and healing sisterhoods. ![]() Set in the Street of Miracles, our protagonist (who happens to be a kung-fu expert and pathological liar) joins a gang of glamorous warrior femmes. And indeed, it walks the tightrope between contradictions - serious and fun, fantasy and reality, poetry and prose, memoir and fiction, delicate and violent. Kai Cheng Thom, our next Our Shared Shelf author, describes herself as “a spoken word performer, lasagna lover, wicked witch, and community worker based in Toronto, Canada, a city that stands on unceded Indigenous territory.”Īs if that isn't enough to make you curious… It's the book cover of her first novel, Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir that draws you in. ![]()
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