Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir

This book absolutely amazed me, right from the first chapter talking about how we trannies need some more dangerous stories. It's really quite brutal in its depictions of the gang violence, and didn't feel like it pulled punches elsewhere, but I really enjoyed the emotions and the personal growth in shitty conditions and all the different femmes depicted in this book (most of whom remind me of at least one woman I have the honor of knowing in my own chaotic life). Gonna read more of Kai Cheng Thoms books and keep recommending this one to my friends, or just go on reading the first chapter to people (3/3 success on recommendations so far).

Read it for the second time. I had forgotten how much violence of various kinds there was. I had also forgotten about some of the fantastical elements. There's a lot of relationships being negotiated under marginalisation and repression. The plot is pretty cool, the whole story is just very intense, with all that interpersonal stuff. I fell asleep for the last half hour or so, and it felt super absurd, waking up to that story having finished, and instead my flatmates talking about the cats.