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WorldPride 2025 Book DIscussion: "Falling Back in Love with Being Human" by Kai Cheng Thom

Presented by PGCMLS & Prince George's County Office of Human Rights

Join us for a book discussion leading up to WorldPride 2025 in Washington D.C.! We'll discuss "Falling Back in Love with Being Human" by Kai Cheng Thom, a powerful exploration of identity, healing, and self-love. This event offers a space to share insights and reflections on the themes of vulnerability, queer identity, and collective healing.

What happens when we imagine loving the people—and the parts of ourselves—that we do not believe are worthy of love?

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Kai Cheng Thom grew up a Chinese Canadian transgender girl in a hostile world. As an activist, psychotherapist, conflict mediator, and spiritual healer, she’s always pursued the same deeply personal mission: to embrace the revolutionary belief that every human being, no matter how hateful or horrible, is intrinsically sacred.

But then Kai Cheng found herself in a crisis of faith, overwhelmed by the viciousness with which people treated one another, and barely clinging to the values and ideals she’d built her life around: justice, hope, love, and healing. Rather than succumb to despair and cynicism, she gathered all her rage and grief and took one last leap of faith: she wrote. Whether prayers or spells or poems—and whether there’s a difference—she wrote to affirm the outcasts and runaways she calls her kin. She wrote to flawed but nonetheless lovable men, to people with good intentions who harm their own, to racists and transphobes seemingly beyond saving. What emerged was a blueprint for falling back in love with being human.