“What would it take to build a community where we were really safe?” Thom asks. To embrace love, in all its inevitable pitfalls, might build a community that can last. She makes the case for meeting the self and others with a radically open heart-with love.
In candid analysis of her own missteps and those of her immediate communities, Thom models the possibility of engaging with failures and moving forward. Documenting her own desire to be “good,” she speaks broadly to the intoxicating pursuit of ideological purity among activists, and the ways in which these obsessions engender fear and ultimately discourage the community from noticing and naming harm. In alternating essays and poems, Thom both critiques and reimagines contemporary activism. This week’s installment of Ten Questions features Kai Cheng Thom, whose latest book, I Hope We Choose Love, will be published on Thursday by Arsenal Pulp Press.
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