Cheng Thom News Today

We’ve got recommendations from booksellers at five local bookshops to help you find a new book you’ll love. 

Alberta’s new gender legislation plays into old tropes about trans people and their right to exist

Including a weekend of nerdom, a community dance-athon and a historic novel about forbidden love

With June being National Pride Month, here are our novel and poetry picks from LGBTQIA+ authors about gender-diverse experiences.

For youth, transitioning is often seen as a point of no return. What if we view gender as something that evolves over a lifetime?

When you’re struggling, Kai Cheng Thom is a beacon of radical hope. A Tyee interview.

Legislation in Newmarket reinforces stereotypical notions that Asian massage businesses are hotbeds of “human trafficking”

a place called No Homeland Reviewed by Adèle Barclay Many of Thom’s poems deploy this bold, storytelling voice, foregrounding the wisdom of what is said, experienced, lived, rumoured, and gossiped in lieu of traditional history with its myopia of normativity. a place called No Homeland consistently examines the collisions that marginalized identities encounter. A maternal figure in my life recently wrote me to say she struggles with poetry precisely because it exists as a place between thin...