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Ching-In Chen

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Descended from ocean dwellers, Ching-In Chen is a genderqueer Chinese American writer, community organizer and teacher. They are author of 'The Heart's Traffic: a novel in poems' (Arktoi Books/Red Hen Press, 2009) and 'recombinant' (Kelsey Street Press, 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry) as well as chapbooks 'to make black paper sing' (speCt! Books) and 'Kundiman for Kin :: Information Retrieval for Monsters' (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, Leslie Scalapino Finalist). Chen is co-editor of 'The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities' (South End Press, 1st edition; AK Press, 2nd edition) and currently a core member of the Massage Parlor Outreach Project as well as a Kelsey Street Pr ...more

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	The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities by Ching-In Chen (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Andrea Smith (Preface), Jai Dulani (Editor) 4.39 avg rating — 1,111 ratings — published 2011 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics by T.C. Tolbert (Editor), Trace Peterson (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Cole Krawitz (Contributor) 4.48 avg rating — 229 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Heart's Traffic 4.47 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Partner Abuse in Activist Communities by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (Editor), Ching-In Chen (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jai Dulani (Editor) 4.44 avg rating — 68 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Alphabet of Embers by Rose Lemberg (Editor), Celeste Rita Baker (Contributor), Vajra Chandrasekera (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.74 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Recombinant 4.20 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 2017	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	When We Become Weavers: Queer Female Poets on the Midwestern Experience by Kate Lynn Hibbard (Editor), Crystal Boson, Jes Braun 4.35 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	To Make Black Paper Sing it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kundiman for Kin/Information Retrieval for Monsters it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2020	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Breathing Space it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2025	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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