Kai Cheng Thom
@razorfemme.bsky.social
Writer, performer, facilitator, somatic coach & dreamer. Author of FIERCE FEMMES & NOTORIOUS LIARS, I HOPE WE CHOOSE LOVE, FROM THE STARS IN THE SKY TO THE FISH IN THE SEA, and FALLING BACK IN LOVE WITH BEING HUMAN. https://linktr.ee/kaichengthom
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I wrote about trans community suicide prevention, including a 4-step guide to peer interventions with links to further resources, for Xtra: xtramagazine.com/health/we-mu...
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Last week, Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum, two members of the Drug User Liberation Front—were found guilty of drug trafficking charges in the B.C. Supreme Court. The legal battle isn’t over.
DULF was found guilty of trafficking charges. The legal battle isn’t over
Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum have mounted a constitutional challenge that could alter Canada’s drug policy
www.script.health
November 11, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Last week, Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum, two members of the Drug User Liberation Front—were found guilty of drug trafficking charges in the B.C. Supreme Court. The legal battle isn’t over.
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On est ici, on est queer, pis ça va pas ben! Le premier volet de la nouvelle chronique de @razorfemme.bsky.social, « La lutte est réelle », «Le secteur traditionnel des soins en santé mentale peut-il protéger ses client·es queer?», est maintenant sur Script :
www.script.health/fr/article/p...
www.script.health/fr/article/p...
Le secteur traditionnel des soins en santé mentale peut-il protéger ses client·es queer?
Alors que l’hystérie anti-LGBTQ2S continue de progresser à travers le monde, les prestataires de services doivent réfléchir aux risques qu’iels sont prêt·e·s à prendre pour résister
www.script.health
November 10, 2025 at 5:31 PM
On est ici, on est queer, pis ça va pas ben! Le premier volet de la nouvelle chronique de @razorfemme.bsky.social, « La lutte est réelle », «Le secteur traditionnel des soins en santé mentale peut-il protéger ses client·es queer?», est maintenant sur Script :
www.script.health/fr/article/p...
www.script.health/fr/article/p...
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We’re here, we’re queer, and we feel pretty bad! @razorfemme.bsky.social’s first instalment of her new column 'The Struggle Is Real', ‘Can the mainstream mental healthcare system protect its queer clients?’ is now live on Script:
www.script.health/article/arti...
www.script.health/article/arti...
Can the mainstream mental healthcare system protect its queer clients?
As anti-LGBTQ2S+ hysteria and fascism continue rise across the globe, service providers need to consider what they’re willing to risk in pushing back
www.script.health
November 10, 2025 at 5:29 PM
We’re here, we’re queer, and we feel pretty bad! @razorfemme.bsky.social’s first instalment of her new column 'The Struggle Is Real', ‘Can the mainstream mental healthcare system protect its queer clients?’ is now live on Script:
www.script.health/article/arti...
www.script.health/article/arti...
A couple years ago I decided to never tag or show my husband on socials because of the time that the "gender critical" crowd decided to harass me and tried to get to me by attacking my partner. The worst part of being a public figure is having your loved ones threatened
Not to add to the “is having a boyfriend embarrassing” discourse, but there are other reasons for women keeping their male partners off their feeds. Years ago, I made the mistake of sharing a poem I wrote for my fiancé and tagging him. The result was people harassing him, an introverted reserved guy
November 9, 2025 at 8:15 PM
A couple years ago I decided to never tag or show my husband on socials because of the time that the "gender critical" crowd decided to harass me and tried to get to me by attacking my partner. The worst part of being a public figure is having your loved ones threatened
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After hundreds of hours of reading and research, my 2025 Starter Guide to transfeminine literature is finally live!
No matter your experience level, there's a book for you! 🏳️⚧️📚 #transbooks
The list covers a vast range of genres. There are 78 handcrafted recs on this list, and I've read all but two.
No matter your experience level, there's a book for you! 🏳️⚧️📚 #transbooks
The list covers a vast range of genres. There are 78 handcrafted recs on this list, and I've read all but two.
Start Here (2025 Edition)
Are you questioning your gender and searching for fiction that’ll help you figure out what a transition might look like? Are you a trans woman or a femmeby who’s never seen herself on the tradition…
thetransfemininereview.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:11 AM
After hundreds of hours of reading and research, my 2025 Starter Guide to transfeminine literature is finally live!
No matter your experience level, there's a book for you! 🏳️⚧️📚 #transbooks
The list covers a vast range of genres. There are 78 handcrafted recs on this list, and I've read all but two.
No matter your experience level, there's a book for you! 🏳️⚧️📚 #transbooks
The list covers a vast range of genres. There are 78 handcrafted recs on this list, and I've read all but two.
I'm teaching an in-person course on conflict transformation and depolarization in activist communities in Toronto in January! Would love to see activists, leaders, organizers come join. Sliding scale spots available :)
Waterline Co-op - Conflict Transformation, Collective Healing & Social Justice: Somatics, Dee
Conflict Transformation, Collective Healing & Social Justice: Somatics, Deep Democracy & Transformative Justice
www.waterline.coop
October 27, 2025 at 12:30 AM
I'm teaching an in-person course on conflict transformation and depolarization in activist communities in Toronto in January! Would love to see activists, leaders, organizers come join. Sliding scale spots available :)
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I am delighted and honoured to say that my second novel RAKESFALL has won the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! vajra.me/2025/10/21/r...
RAKESFALL wins the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction
RAKESFALL wins the Le Guin Prize!
vajra.me
October 21, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I am delighted and honoured to say that my second novel RAKESFALL has won the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! vajra.me/2025/10/21/r...
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DHS is repelling from helicopters into apartment buildings to raid them and zip tie children in the middle of the night while saying "fuck them kids." They're shooting at people on the streets and lying about it.
This is a hostile occupying force that is a threat to everyone's safety.
This is a hostile occupying force that is a threat to everyone's safety.
October 7, 2025 at 12:12 AM
DHS is repelling from helicopters into apartment buildings to raid them and zip tie children in the middle of the night while saying "fuck them kids." They're shooting at people on the streets and lying about it.
This is a hostile occupying force that is a threat to everyone's safety.
This is a hostile occupying force that is a threat to everyone's safety.
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For my newsletter, I wrote about how wantonly illegal and unconstitutional ICE is, how it must come to a stop now, how it's up to all of us to stop it, and how we will need to develop a way so the federal government can never do this to us again.
burns-notice.ghost.io/we-cant-live...
burns-notice.ghost.io/we-cant-live...
We Can't Live Like This
Trump's ICE agents are wantonly breaking the law across the country, while he sends the national guard to forcibly occupy blue states. It's up to the good citizens of this country to oppose this uncon...
burns-notice.ghost.io
October 6, 2025 at 4:13 PM
For my newsletter, I wrote about how wantonly illegal and unconstitutional ICE is, how it must come to a stop now, how it's up to all of us to stop it, and how we will need to develop a way so the federal government can never do this to us again.
burns-notice.ghost.io/we-cant-live...
burns-notice.ghost.io/we-cant-live...
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No literally this is the thing: the Right has completely captured the media apparatus in an era where that doesn't matter, no matter how much regime loyalist content they put out everyone fucking hates them
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Even funnier about the Sinclair Charlie Kirk special that didn’t air on ABC affiliates: it only had 2,000 views on YouTube this morning (worldwide) and this afternoon it’s still not even at 4,000! NO ONE CARES
September 20, 2025 at 6:45 PM
No literally this is the thing: the Right has completely captured the media apparatus in an era where that doesn't matter, no matter how much regime loyalist content they put out everyone fucking hates them
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
For the last edition of my column DANGEROUS SPACE with @xtramagazine.com I wrote about why it's time for queer communities to say goodbye to cancel culture as we resist the accelerating crackdown on our rights.
It has been gratifying to see the rise of genuine collective dialogue about cancel culture over the past few years, writes @razorfemme.bsky.social.
Cancel culture favours punishment over solidarity. It’s time to let it go | Xtra Magazine
Queer and social justice movements must reject cancel culture to meet the moment
xtramagazine.com
September 19, 2025 at 11:24 PM
For the last edition of my column DANGEROUS SPACE with @xtramagazine.com I wrote about why it's time for queer communities to say goodbye to cancel culture as we resist the accelerating crackdown on our rights.
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Hi
ICE killed a single dad at a traffic stop here on Friday
Today they are disappearing people again in broad daylight, they are everywhere
If you have any national platform at all
Chicago is fucking begging you, please help us
ICE killed a single dad at a traffic stop here on Friday
Today they are disappearing people again in broad daylight, they are everywhere
If you have any national platform at all
Chicago is fucking begging you, please help us
September 14, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Hi
ICE killed a single dad at a traffic stop here on Friday
Today they are disappearing people again in broad daylight, they are everywhere
If you have any national platform at all
Chicago is fucking begging you, please help us
ICE killed a single dad at a traffic stop here on Friday
Today they are disappearing people again in broad daylight, they are everywhere
If you have any national platform at all
Chicago is fucking begging you, please help us
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I don’t think people truly understand the ascendency of fascism in this country right now. This is an abhorrent, but not surprising, proposal given the rhetoric and actions of the Trump regime and its far right supporters.
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
September 14, 2025 at 1:06 AM
I don’t think people truly understand the ascendency of fascism in this country right now. This is an abhorrent, but not surprising, proposal given the rhetoric and actions of the Trump regime and its far right supporters.
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a question I often find myself asking these days: "are these the moves of a movement that feels that it's winning or one desperately afraid that it's about to lose everything?"
what we’ve seen from the right is the most insane case of cancel culture i’ve ever witnessed. the left has never even done close to a fraction of a fraction of what they want to do now
September 13, 2025 at 11:07 PM
a question I often find myself asking these days: "are these the moves of a movement that feels that it's winning or one desperately afraid that it's about to lose everything?"
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This is how they ensure political opponents can't escape when they start rounding them up.
If you're in a position to leave, you should do so now before they close the door.
theintercept.com/2025/09/13/m...
If you're in a position to leave, you should do so now before they close the door.
theintercept.com/2025/09/13/m...
New Bill Would Give Marco Rubio “Thought Police” Power to Revoke U.S. Passports
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has already sought to punish immigrants for speech. New legislation might let him revoke passports from U.S. citizens.
theintercept.com
September 14, 2025 at 2:29 AM
This is how they ensure political opponents can't escape when they start rounding them up.
If you're in a position to leave, you should do so now before they close the door.
theintercept.com/2025/09/13/m...
If you're in a position to leave, you should do so now before they close the door.
theintercept.com/2025/09/13/m...
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NEW: A timeline of how false “transgender ideology” claims spread in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing. By @hencarnell.bsky.social, @msjpauly.bsky.social, and me:
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
It's never too soon for the right to blame trans people
A timeline of false "gender ideology" claims about the Charlie Kirk shooting.
www.motherjones.com
September 13, 2025 at 12:27 AM
NEW: A timeline of how false “transgender ideology” claims spread in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing. By @hencarnell.bsky.social, @msjpauly.bsky.social, and me:
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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In case you were wondering why the incorrect rumor of “trans activist” and “fascist symbols” on ammo started, it’s because arrows and initials are common ways manufacturers stamp ammo.
Including “TRN” the ironsight and a direction broad arrow:
In case you were wondering why the incorrect rumor of “trans activist” and “fascist symbols” on ammo started, it’s because arrows and initials are common ways manufacturers stamp ammo.
Including “TRN” the ironsight and a direction broad arrow:
September 11, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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In case you were wondering why the incorrect rumor of “trans activist” and “fascist symbols” on ammo started, it’s because arrows and initials are common ways manufacturers stamp ammo.
Including “TRN” the ironsight and a direction broad arrow:
In case you were wondering why the incorrect rumor of “trans activist” and “fascist symbols” on ammo started, it’s because arrows and initials are common ways manufacturers stamp ammo.
Including “TRN” the ironsight and a direction broad arrow:
Why not
First human case of the flesh-eating screwworm in the US has been identified in Maryland.
Exclusive: First human screwworm case in US traced to person in Maryland who traveled from Guatemala, sources say
A case of the flesh-eating screwworm parasite has been identified in a person in Maryland who had traveled to the United States from Guatemala, according to four sources familiar with the situation.
www.reuters.com
August 25, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Why not
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So how many anonymous attempts to take down trans women, famous and otherwise, in the last month do we have at this point? Enough that it’s reasonable to suggest something dangerous is happening?
August 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
So how many anonymous attempts to take down trans women, famous and otherwise, in the last month do we have at this point? Enough that it’s reasonable to suggest something dangerous is happening?
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“He was asking what he had done wrong for this to happen to him and if the teachers don’t like him,” said his mother Anne.
Jake said he was planning to avoid using the toilet at school by limiting the amount he drinks
https://bit.ly/3JwjYBT
Jake said he was planning to avoid using the toilet at school by limiting the amount he drinks
https://bit.ly/3JwjYBT
‘What have I done wrong?’ Trans kids go back to school bathroom bans in Scotland
Councils rushing to put policies on school bathrooms in place leave trans children facing confusion, distress and the risk of being outed.
goodlawproject.org
August 25, 2025 at 6:51 AM
“He was asking what he had done wrong for this to happen to him and if the teachers don’t like him,” said his mother Anne.
Jake said he was planning to avoid using the toilet at school by limiting the amount he drinks
https://bit.ly/3JwjYBT
Jake said he was planning to avoid using the toilet at school by limiting the amount he drinks
https://bit.ly/3JwjYBT
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NEW: With a new first-time translation from Jamie Berrout, I'm delighted to share this 2023 interview with Mariposas Negras cofounder Laura Glover, originally printed in the zine Trans y Fugas.
Mariposas Negras is a transfemme sex worker collective on the front lines of Mexican trans activism 🇲🇽
Mariposas Negras is a transfemme sex worker collective on the front lines of Mexican trans activism 🇲🇽
Trans y Fugas, “Trans Archive and Trans Memory”
Jamie Berrout brings us a new partial translation of Mexican periodical Trans y Fugas, published by transfeminine sex worker collective Mariposas Negras and founder/editor Laura Glover.
thetransfemininereview.com
August 25, 2025 at 12:18 AM
NEW: With a new first-time translation from Jamie Berrout, I'm delighted to share this 2023 interview with Mariposas Negras cofounder Laura Glover, originally printed in the zine Trans y Fugas.
Mariposas Negras is a transfemme sex worker collective on the front lines of Mexican trans activism 🇲🇽
Mariposas Negras is a transfemme sex worker collective on the front lines of Mexican trans activism 🇲🇽
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they’re kidnapping trans women and forcing them to choose between male detention centers, where theyll be tortured, sexually abused and forcibly detransitioned, and leaving her whole life behind via self-deportation. but please go on with your “reasonable concerns” about trans rights
August 24, 2025 at 1:56 AM
they’re kidnapping trans women and forcing them to choose between male detention centers, where theyll be tortured, sexually abused and forcibly detransitioned, and leaving her whole life behind via self-deportation. but please go on with your “reasonable concerns” about trans rights
I wrote about revolutionary love, non-dual thinking, and spiritual activism without spiritual bypassing
Non-Dualism Is Not Political Neutrality
Shadow Integration Without Spiritual Bypassing
open.substack.com
August 22, 2025 at 2:14 AM
I wrote about revolutionary love, non-dual thinking, and spiritual activism without spiritual bypassing