Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom

This group hunts and fights against transphobes and violent Johns, avenging the deaths of murdered trans-women everywhere.

When the murder of a fellow femme happens again on the Street of Miracles, our protagonist joins her femme sisters to form a vigilante gang of vicious, strong femme warriors: the 'Lipstick Lacerators'. While enveloped into the group, the protagonist is able to expand and transform into her own identity and become the woman she has always dreamed of becoming. She embarks on her own journey and finds her true friends and family with a group of completely fascinating femmes who live and work in a mysterious pleasure district know as the Street of Miracles. This is a coming of age story of a young Asian trans-woman, self-describing as the greatest escape artist, Kung-fu expert and pathological liar, who makes the decision to run away from her parents abusive home in the downcast place of Gloom. Except for two things that threw a monkey wrench into my parents carefully devised plans: I was wild at heart, and I wanted to be a girl. Their greatest hopes rested on me, because I was a boy.

Read as part of the Our Shared Shelf March pick. The perfect book to read over World Book Day and International Women’s Day 🌷💃🏻 I do, however, believe in dangerous stories. But when things go terribly wrong, she must find the truth within herself in order to stop the violence and discover what it really means to grow up and find your family.

When one of their number is brutally murdered, the protagonist joins her sisters in forming a vigilante gang to fight back against the transphobes, violent johns, and cops that stalk the Street of Miracles. Under the wings of this fierce and fabulous flock, Dearly blossoms into the woman she has always dreamed of being, with a little help from the unscrupulous Doctor Crocodile. Striking off on her own, she finds her true family in a group of larger-than-life trans femmes who live in a mysterious pleasure district known only as the Street of Miracles. Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir by Kai Cheng Thom is the highly sensational, ultra-exciting, sort-of true coming-of-age story of a young Asian trans girl, pathological liar, and kung-fu expert who runs away from her parents’ abusive home in a rainy city called Gloom.

Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom