Mia interviews Kai Cheng Thom on What Consent Is Not

Kai Cheng Thom is a writer, performance artist, and community healer in Toronto. She is the author of the novel Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir Metonymy Press), the essay collection I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes at the End of the World(an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book), the poetry collection a place called No Homeland (an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book in 2018), and the children's picture books From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea, illustrated by Kai Yun Ching and Wai-Yant Li, and For Laika, the Dog Who Learned the Names of the Stars, illustrated by Kai Yun Ching. Kai Cheng won the Writers' Trust of Canada's Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers in 2017.Subscribe on Substack for more in depth writing and for my book, Unsolicited Advice: The Canceled Memoir of a Consent Educator. Check out upcoming classes, recorded classes, workbooks, and merch from Consent Wizardry. We have cool hats!!New podcast: You’re Doing It Wrong with Mia and Risdon Roberts on consent 2.0.Goodies for you that offer Share the Load a little kickback:You can support CW and get yourself some luxurious self-care stuff from Foria. I love their CBD suppositories (for both front and back!) and their hand salve. I’ve partnered with Lust Cinema to be able to offer you all 20% off their three platforms.Films based on anonymous submissions of real life experiences and fantasies.Plot driven feature lengths.Soft stuff.Advertise on the pod.Share the Load explores all things consent including and beyond sex. I'm your host, Mia Schachter. I'm an intimacy coordinator for film, television, and theater, a consent educator, writer, and artist in Los Angeles. You can find me on IG @consent.wizardry and you can reach me at [email protected] with listener questions for future episodes. www.consentwizardry.comWays to work with me:1:1 private sessionsGroup classes and long-form programsTrain with me to be a Consent Educator Hire me to Intimacy Coordinate on your projectConsulting for you or your company/organization or scriptI offer customized workshops and speeches You can book me through [email protected].