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Kinship: Trans & Gender-Diverse Authors of the Asian Diaspora

Venus Envy is excited to partner with The ArQuives! In anticipation of their upcoming exhibit 'Of Kin and Other Impossible Homes' (Curated by Jae 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.

ABOUT 'Of Kin and Other Impossible Homes': 

Building 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. "Of Kin and Other Impossible Homes" 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.

OPENING RECEPTION: May 29, 2025 from 6-8 PM at The ArQuives (34 Isabella St, Toronto, Ontario). Refreshments provided.

 The ArQuives is Canada's largest LGBTQ2+ archives, dedicated to preserving the histories of queer and trans communities at a national level.

  • Book cover reading "Dirty River A Queer Femme of Colour Dreaming Her Way Home Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha" with a cartoon version of Leah looking into the distance
    Arsenal Pulp Press

    Dirty River

    $21.95

    A transformative memoir by a queer disabled woman of colour and abuse survivor. Lambda Literary Award and Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction f...

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  • Book cover reading "I hope we choose love a trans girl's notes from the end of the world Kai Cheng Thom" and depicting two flowers
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    Arsenal Pulp Press

    I Hope We Choose Love

    $18.95

    What can we hope for at the end of the world? What can we trust in when community has broken our hearts? What would it mean to pursue justice witho...

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    Sourcebooks

    The Sacrifice

    $16.95

    An island oasis turns deadly when a terrifying legend threatens to kill off visitors one by one in this haunting novel from the highly acclaimed au...

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    The Feminist Press at CUNY

    The Default World

    $27.95

    A trans woman sets out to exploit a group of wealthy roommates, only to fall under the spell of their glamorous, hedonistic lifestyle in tech-bubbl...

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    Metonymy Press

    The Good Arabs

    $19.95

    Swinging from post-explosion Beirut to a Parc-Extension balcony in summer, the verse and prose poems in The Good Arabs ground the reader in place, ...

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    Metonymy Press

    Small Beauty

    $18.95

    2017 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction winner Coping with the death of her cousin, Mei abandons her life in the city to live in his now...

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