![]() ![]() ![]() For some, these communities provide catharsis, a space to let your hair down after a long, hard day of having to interact with straight people. Queer community, as Thom examines it and in the wider world, can take many forms: a more intimate, chosen-family model of mutual aid and support the more nebulous web of connections drawn by individuals who might frequent the same bars, parties, or organizing circles because of their shared identities and experiences. Published last fall, I Hope We Choose Love reckons with a number of queer community practices and logics that have become commonplace over the past two decades. Building on these themes as they appear in her 2016 novel, Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars, and her 2017 poetry collection, A Place Called No Homeland, her latest book, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl’s Notes at the End of the World, tackles queer community dynamics head-on in a mix of poems and personal essays. ![]() “Both!” That's clear in Thom’s writing-her work chronicles the complicated inner workings of queer community, where drama and trauma are basically inescapable. ![]()
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