Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir by Kai Cheng Thom

Author:Kai Cheng Thom [Thom, Kai Cheng]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780994047137
Google: N2ZRzQEACAAJ
Amazon: 0994047134
Publisher: Metonymy Press
Published: 2016-08-14T21:00:00+00:00

from my notebook A

song of the pocket knife, part 4 little silver fang-friend, could it be

that i

don’t need you

anymore?

Overheard: Lucretia and Valaria

8

The gang is training on the roof of the abandoned warehouse. Rapunzelle leads the girls through a series of kick-boxing drills. Valaria and Lucretia slip away from the group, murmuring conspiratorially. Lucretia catches me watching and shoots me Death Eyes. I look away, wait a few moments, and then sneak after them, using the Shadow Jutsu technique my father taught me to stay out of sight. Inside the hollowed-out factory shell, Valaria and Lucretia are arguing passionately.

VALARIA

Listen, you know what you signed up for. If you’ve lost the stomach for it, no one’s holding a gun to your head. You can leave at any time. Run back to Kimaya and her little community centre like a scared bunny rabbit.

LUCRETIA

(in a screaming whisper) I signed on to rough up a few dudebros and scare people enough to think twice about beating on femmes, not get into a vigilante gang war that’s all over the news. This is getting out of hand, Val, and you know it.

VALARIA This is going exactly where it needs to. LUCRETIA

People are calling for doubled—tripled—police patrols on the Street! Regulars are staying away from the usual joints, and that means bad business for working girls and everyone else. We’re hurting femmes more than we’re helping them, and the Street will turn on us eventually. Probably sooner rather than later.

VALARIA

(a slight smile playing at the corners of her mouth) What did you think? That we would mug a guy here and there, collect a couple wallets, spray-paint an alley wall and call it a day? You think too small, Luce, you always have. That’s your problem. You’re too invested in the way things are—your rich dates and the designer shoes they buy you. Never stopping to think that they should be the ones begging for your attention, indulging your kinks, living at your beck and call, not the other way around. You could set the master’s house on fire, and instead you dance for scraps at his table.

LUCRETIA

I don’t remember you giving me an empowerment feminism lecture when it was your kinks I was indulging! VALARIA

So is that what this is about?

LUCRETIA Don’t you fucking dare say it.

VALARIA You’re jealous, aren’t you?

LUCRETIA

(throwing up her arms) What? Of who? Certainly not that little psycho killer baby you can’t take your eyes off of. For one thing, she’s jailbait. For another, she’s a rabid bitch who loves violence. Come to think of it, you two deserve each other.

VALARIA (smirking)

Well, you of all people know that I do appreciate a rabid bitch, Lulu. LUCRETIA

Fuck you, Valaria. You walk around here thinking you’re better than the rest of us with your big ideas and your stupid shaved head and your leather boots. Thinking you’re some kind of revolutionary heroine and the rest of us your little soldiers. News flash: Some of us live in the real world. Some of us have real dreams.

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