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Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H

31 reviews

mfrisk's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

3.5

I read this book for a Queer book club I started and so the discussions we had around this book and the additional depth I gained from hearing how others felt about this book definitely shaped how I read and understood it. I felt that this book overall was very impactful and would highly recommend it as a book for book club groups as it gets into a variety of topics surrounding intersectional queerness including how queerness intersects with race, religion, immigration status, physical appearance, and how to navigate relationships, change, and to strive towards a better and more just world. 

I think this book was incredibly impactful and really the main gripes I had with the book were focused on the structure of the book itself. At times more towards the first half of the book the switches between childhood and adulthood felt more jarring in terms of the flow of the story as well as the interweaving of stories from the Quran. While I saw the value in the stories being told and the reflection it made the book slower to get into initially but became more relevant as the book went on to better understand Lamya’s later adulthood experiences and their changing ways of navigating different spaces. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Homophobia, Islamophobia, Racism, Bullying, Lesbophobia, Misogyny, and Racial slurs

hamletslover's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing sad tense medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Islamophobia, Bullying, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Xenophobia, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Sexism, Racism, Lesbophobia, and Homophobia

eed8's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Sexism, Lesbophobia, Homophobia, Religious bigotry, and Islamophobia

auteaandtales's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Islamophobia, Lesbophobia, Misogyny, Racism, Homophobia, Child abuse, and Deportation

Minor: Genocide, Abandonment, Colonisation, Alcohol, Classism, Hate crime, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, and Gun violence

torturedreadersdept's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Cursing, Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, Outing, Religious bigotry, Toxic friendship, Body horror, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Sexism, Xenophobia, Lesbophobia, Islamophobia, Classism, Gaslighting, Grief, Biphobia, and Homophobia

Minor: Ableism, Abandonment, Hate crime, Violence, Alcohol, Colonisation, Confinement, Physical abuse, Transphobia, Deportation, Gun violence, Police brutality, and Racial slurs

meagan123's review against another edition

reflective slow-paced

1.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Lesbophobia, Domestic abuse, Xenophobia, Islamophobia, Classism, Misogyny, and Racism

Minor: Slavery and Biphobia

savvylit's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.0

Lamya H is an immensely skilled memoirist. Hijab Butch Blues is full of emotionally evocative remembrances and shrewd reflections in equal measure. I appreciated her unique perspective as a devout Muslim and queer woman. The ways that she strengthened her sense of self alongside her faith were fascinating to experience secondhand.

That being said - and this is entirely my personal preference - I did not love the amount of religious parables retold throughout this memoir. I think it worked for Lamya's narrative, but I sometimes felt like I wanted to just know her and not the prophets of yore. Perhaps it's because I was already familiar with many of these parables as they're the same as many Christian ones (Jesus, Moses, Jonah) and that was the faith in which I was raised. Or perhaps it's because I am an atheist and religious parables in general give me the ick. If not for the parables, this would have been a five-star memoir for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Islamophobia, Child abuse, Lesbophobia, and Xenophobia

sknappy1's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Lesbophobia, Islamophobia, and Xenophobia

Minor: Transphobia, Racial slurs, Racism, and Domestic abuse

moonytoast's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Dysphoria, Misogyny, and Islamophobia

Minor: Physical abuse, Deportation, Toxic relationship, and Lesbophobia

ghost_rider's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Religious bigotry, Homophobia, and Lesbophobia