Fierce Femmes And Notorious Liars

At once a love letter and challenge to the traditional transgender memoir, Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars is a playful, surrealist dance through queer coming of age. With Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars, you really get the sense of creativity and invention that comes from becoming your own woman - an artist of your own identity. It may be a natural inclination to be nervous of what we do not know. Here is an author who builds us another world, expanding our view. This is a privilege. This is writing at.

What the community thinks

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Content warnings

Graphic

Self harm (6 reviewers), Transphobia (5 reviewers), Violence (5 reviewers), Sexual assault (4 reviewers), Police brutality (3 reviewers), Drug use (2 reviewers), Addiction (1 reviewer), Death (1 reviewer), Homophobia (1 reviewer), Racism (1 reviewer), Sexual violence (1 reviewer), and Medical trauma (1 reviewer)

Moderate

Violence (5 reviewers), Self harm (4 reviewers), Police brutality (3 reviewers), Death (2 reviewers), Homophobia (2 reviewers), Transphobia (2 reviewers), Murder (2 reviewers), Drug use (1 reviewer), Gun violence (1 reviewer), Hate crime (1 reviewer), Rape (1 reviewer), Sexual assault (1 reviewer), Sexual content (1 reviewer), Sexual violence (1 reviewer), Blood (1 reviewer), and Medical content (1 reviewer)

Minor

Self harm (2 reviewers), Child abuse (1 reviewer), Gun violence (1 reviewer), Sexual assault (1 reviewer), and Sexual violence (1 reviewer)

Moods

emotional71%
adventurous61%
dark50%
funny44%
hopeful44%
reflective40%
inspiring38%
challenging25%
sad22%
lighthearted16%
mysterious16%
tense16%
informative5%

Pace

Plot- or character-driven?

Character: 52% | A mix: 47%

Strong character development?

Yes: 88% | It's complicated: 9% | No: 1%

Loveable characters?

Yes: 66% | It's complicated: 33%

Diverse cast of characters?

Yes: 98% | It's complicated: 1%

Fierce Femmes And Notorious Liars Audiobook

Flaws of characters a main focus?

Yes: 76% | It's complicated: 14% | No: 8% | N/A: 2%

Average rating

4.36

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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. 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. 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. 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. 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.