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Kai Cheng Thom is a Canadian writer and social worker. She has published two books to date, the novel Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir and the poetry collection a place called No Homeland .Fierce Femmes was a shortlisted Lambda Literary Award nominee for Transgender Fiction at the 29th Lambda Literary Awards, and Thom won the 2017 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ writers. The Dayne Ogilvie jury, consisting of writers Jane Eaton Hamilton, Elio Iannacci and Trish Salah, cited Thom's work as "sheer joyful exuberance, creativity, and talent", calling Fierce Femmes "a delicious and fabulist refashioning of a trans memoir as fiction" and "a genre-breaking refusal of the idea that the only stories trans people have to tell are their autobiographies."In 2018, a place called No Homeland was a shortlisted finalist for the Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature.

✵ 12. March 1991

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“When I was a little girl (but being raised as a little boy), what I wanted more than anything was to be a dancer. How I longed for it — the lights, the stage, the gorgeous costumes, most of all for the delivering grace of movement in harmony with a choreography greater than myself. Like a little Chinese and two left feet saw to that: I was laughed, bullied, or shamed out of every dance class I attempted.”

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What I learned, loved and lost as a trans Zumba addict (2018)

“I’m okay with waiting. I’ve found what I need to find. Whenever the mood strikes me, I wait until I’m home in my apartment. I put Enrique Iglesias on blast. I close my eyes. And I dance.”

Kai Cheng Thom

What I learned, loved and lost as a trans Zumba addict (2018)

“If there is one lesson that I have to teach you, dear reader, remember this: cute boys come and go, but The Dance is forever.”

Kai Cheng Thom

What I learned, loved and lost as a trans Zumba addict (2018)

“For many of us, doing physical activity is a highly emotionally charged, even dangerous, undertaking. Sports and exercise are sites of intense ” forms of exercise.”

Kai Cheng Thom

What I learned, loved and lost as a trans Zumba addict (2018)

“There are a million tiny privileges that, to physical activity, to taking joy in our own bodies, are among them. Finding a physical activity that I loved came at the cost of putting up with countless small acts of hostility, and finally, I had had enough.”

Kai Cheng Thom

What I learned, loved and lost as a trans Zumba addict (2018)

“As I twirled, cha-cha-ed and clapped my hands to the beat, I began to remember, for the first time in a long time, those moments I used to steal as a kid, dancing alone in my room with headphones on. Those fleeting moments when what I looked like didn’t matter, only what I felt. Only this time, I wasn’t a child anymore. There was no one who could burst in unannounced, laugh at me, punish me, force me to stop. I felt so free, so beautiful, in a way I had written off as impossible for me long ago. … My inner dancer began to emerge from the deep pit where I had kept her all this time. I found the girlhood I was never allowed.”

Kai Cheng Thom

What I learned, loved and lost as a trans Zumba addict (2018)

“On that day beneath the fluorescent lights of the YMCA, I was transcendent.”

Kai Cheng Thom

What I learned, loved and lost as a trans Zumba addict (2018)

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