What a fantastic collection of essays! Kai Cheng Thom as been on my radar for a while, after listening to two great podcast interviews with her (season 4 episode 16 of Secret Feminist Agenda, and episode 81 of Gender Reveal). I'm so glad I finally picked up this book, which was shorter than I was expecting, but packed with many ideas about queer community, accountability, the often overlapping groups of survivors and perpetrators of violence, social justice movements, transformative justice versus healing, suicide, mental health and mentorship. All of the chapters center the concerns and well being of trans women of color and queer people. There are a few passages in here I will be thinking about for a long time, especially from the essay titled "A School for Storytellers." This is a book I plan to reread.