Reviews tagging 'Religious bigotry'

Hijab Butch Blues: A Memoir by Lamya H

37 reviews

mbzoller's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective tense

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Religious bigotry, Racism, Abandonment, Islamophobia, Transphobia, Xenophobia, and Homophobia

Minor: Domestic abuse, Slavery, and Colonisation

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

melnao1's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

 This book nestles right between religion and queerness, feels how uncomfortable it can be, and makes a home there. A beautifully written memoir surrounding the complicated aspects of being perceived by others while navigating new emotions, feelings and bodily experiences. I LOVED the religious embodiment of her story woven through different stories from the Quran. This itched something in my brain 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Islamophobia, War, Religious bigotry, and Xenophobia

emmehooks's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

This book does a beautiful job of intertwining the author’s experiences with queerness, faithfulness, immigration, racism, xenophobia, and biological and chosen family (to name a few).

I loved the structure of the book and the way they aligned the themes of different religious texts with themes of their life.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Homophobia, Transphobia, Religious bigotry, Racism, and Islamophobia

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Colonisation, Physical abuse, and Misogyny

Minor: Biphobia

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

lizziaha's review against another edition

hopeful

4.25

I have a lot of respect and admiration for religious queer people. I think it requires a great deal of introspection and hope and trust in a higher power; I envy that kind of faith. And I think it can make your queerness more complicated and also more beautiful. And I think that’s a line that Lamya walks in this book. The format of her experiences intertwined with parables from the Quran worked really well for this. And for me it was interesting to see this aspect of religion. Since I was raised Christian, many of the stories were familiar, with additions, subtractions, and adjustments that occasionally changed the whole shape of the story. And Lamya’s interpretations turn them into something even more powerful. This too feels familiar. I remember shaping my own faith in a way that many other members of my religion did not relate to. It is such a holy act of love and self-love and I’m glad to see it recorded her. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Homophobia, Islamophobia, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Deportation, Xenophobia, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Domestic abuse and Toxic relationship

tinyjude's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

I am rendered speechless after finishing this book. I cannot recommend it enough. 

My life and experiences are very different from Lamya but I couldn't stop relating to her, her fears, struggles, philosophical and religious interpretations and adoring every second of it. Every new vision, every shift in perspective on so many aspects of life. The carefully and gorgeously crafted stories she tells, how she centers women throughout the whole book, how she believes fervently and beautifully in a gender genderqueer God (Allah), how we get to know so many different queer people that end up forming a community, how she navigates gender in a nonconforming way that truly spoke to my heart... How she navigates all those episodes in her life and comes to be the person who created this incredible book. I hope she keeps fighting in her own ways and she receives all the love she deserves and previously negated herself. Truly an indispensable read!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Lesbophobia, Homophobia, Religious bigotry, Islamophobia, Racism, Transphobia, and Police brutality

Moderate: Abandonment, Domestic abuse, Dysphoria, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Biphobia and Slavery

melissahawco's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Religious bigotry, Outing, Misogyny, Xenophobia, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Islamophobia, and Homophobia

baguettekelly's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

This is a beautiful, important book about divinity and queerness and family and friends and belonging.  I would wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone who has experienced feeling like who they are is at odds with their family and culture, and also to anyone.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry and Islamophobia

Moderate: Homophobia