Kai Cheng Thom, Queer Love, and the Limits of Survival: A Brief Retrospective on “I Hope We Chose Love”

I first read I Hope We Choose Love when my life in the South had already beaten me down into something bitter, degraded, and already starting to rot from the pressure of it. A week before a dear friend came to get me out of the Outer Banks, I was early in HRT, disgusted with my body, and unsure I was ready to keep going. I had annoyed her over text (as …