{"title":"Kinship: Trans \u0026 Gender-Diverse Authors of the Asian Diaspora","description":"\u003ch5\u003e\n\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVenus Envy is excited to partner with The ArQuives! \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn anticipation of their upcoming exhibit 'Of Kin and Other Impossible Homes' (Curated by \u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eJae\u003c\/span\u003e Kim and The ArQuives Curatorial Committee), Venus Envy, among other independent bookstores across the country, has curated a collection of books by trans* and gender-diverse authors across the Asian diaspora. You can browse our digital display or pop by our shop at 1727 Barrington Street, Halifax, NS to check out these incredible titles in person! Our book display will be up for the entire month of May which coincides with Asian Heritage Month.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/arquives.ca\/event\/of-kin-and-other-impossible-homes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eABOUT 'Of Kin and Other Impossible Homes': \u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBuilding home is an act of defiance in a world that has not made space for it. For many trans and gender-diverse individuals Asians across the Asian diaspora, kinship has been created in the absence of precedent, forming beyond traditional structures of belonging. \u003cem\u003e\"Of Kin and Other Impossible Homes\"\u003c\/em\u003e traces these histories of care and connection through personal narratives, photographs, and archival materials. By weaving together past and present, this exhibition honours the ways queer kinship reshapes what home can be, even in the most unlikely places.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eOPENING RECEPTION:\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eMay 29, 2025 from 6-8 PM at The ArQuives (34 Isabella St, Toronto, Ontario). Refreshments provided.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/arquives.ca\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e \u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/arquives.ca\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eThe ArQuives \u003c\/a\u003eis Canada's largest LGBTQ2+ archives, dedicated to preserving the histories of queer and trans communities at a national level.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"fierce-femmes-and-notorious-liars-a-dangerous-trans-girls-confabulous-memoir","title":"Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e by Kai Cheng Thom is the highly sensational, ultra-exciting, sort-of true coming-of-age story of a young Asian trans girl, pathological liar, and kung-fu expert who runs away from her parents’ abusive home in a rainy city called Gloom. 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Taking its cues from contemporary thought leaders in the transformative justice movement such as adrienne maree brown and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, this provocative book is a call for nuance in a time of political polarization, for healing in a time of justice, and for love in an apocalypse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e[[[Specifications]]]\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ctable width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePaperback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePages\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e144\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eYear Published\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e2019\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKai Cheng Thom\u003cspan\u003e is a writer, performer, somatic coach, and mediator based in Toronto\/tkaronto. 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She ended up in Toronto, where she was welcomed by a community of queer punks of colour offering promises of love and revolution, yet she remained haunted by the reasons she left home in the first place. This passionate, riveting memoir is a mixtape of dreams and nightmares, of immigration court lineups and queer South Asian dance nights; it is an intensely personal road map and an intersectional, tragicomic tale that reveals how a disabled queer woman of colour and abuse survivor navigates the dirty river of the not-so-distant past and, as the subtitle suggests, \"dreams her way home. \"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The LGBTIQ community should lift its ears to receive Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. Her vision stands to rearrange the ways we approach community, creating art, and loving. Every time I've heard her read, I've come away new. \"\u003cbr\u003e-Tara Hardy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e[[[Specifications]]]\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ctable width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePaperback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePages\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e240\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eYear Published\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e2015\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLeah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (she\/they) is a mixed-blood, middle-aged, nonbinary femme disabled and autistic writer, disability and transformative justice cultural and movement worker of Burgher and Tamil Sri Lankan, Irish and Galician ascent. 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