To read Kai Cheng Thom is like therapy, to delve into the complexities of race, gender, class, ethnicity, to have have hope again.

"some bodies can't be touched/ some poems cannot be written/ just felt"

"yes to filth. yes to the apple! yes to eve! yes to pain and to shame and to wondering and to crawling home"

"white queer are always thinking that other people don't belong in the places they have decided belong to them."