Hijab Butch Blues

A Memoir

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Pub Date 02 Feb 2023 | Archive Date 31 Jan 2023

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'A masterful, must-read contribution to conversations on power, justice, healing, and devotion from a singular voice I now trust with my whole heart'

GLENNON DOYLE, author of Untamed


When Lamya is fourteen, she decides to disappear.


It seems easier to ease herself out of sight than to grapple with the difficulty of taking shape in a world that doesn't fit. She is a queer teenager growing up in a Muslim household, a South Asian in a Middle Eastern country. But during her Quran class, she reads a passage about Maryam, and suddenly everything shifts: if Maryam was never touched by any man, could Maryam be... like Lamya?


Written with deep intelligence and a fierce humour, Hijab Butch Blues follows Lamya as she travels to the United States, as she comes out, and as she navigates the complexities of the immigration system - and the queer dating scene. At each step, she turns to her faith to make sense of her life, weaving stories from the Quran together with her own experiences: Musa leading his people to freedom; Allah, who is neither male nor female; and Nuh, who built an ark, just as Lamya is finally able to become the architect of her own story.


Raw and unflinching, Hijab Butch Blues heralds the arrival of a truly original voice, asking powerful questions about gender and sexuality, relationships, identity and faith, and what it means to build a life of one's own.

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'A masterful, must-read contribution to conversations on power, justice, healing, and devotion from a singular voice I now trust with my...


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this was absolutely fantastic and i'm so so happy i read it!! the title and cover are so great, and i love the structure. i'm not familiar with the Qu'ran but i'm so glad i got to learn more about it via this book, and i loved how Lamya made parallels between the lessons of the Qu'ran and their own coming-of-age as a gnc Muslim lesbian. her narrative voice was so compelling, and brought a brilliant and intersectional perspective to queer memoir we desperately need. it was also really thought-provoking to read about coming out in Muslim spaces - it's important to disrupt the narrative that the only way to be a happy, fulfilled queer person is to tell every single person in your life that you're queer, and that not telling your family is lying. i really can't recommend this enough, and i can't wait to read the author's future work.

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