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emotional
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beautifully written. cannot recommend enough.
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Had high expectations of this book and not only did it met them, but it exceeded past them. I cant even begin to describe my emotions I felt during this book, there was so many moments where I had felt in total awe. My knowledge of the Islam faith is little to none, and I am aware that the depections of it in this book is Lamya own interpreations related to their queerness of the scared stories in both the Bible and the Quran.
With that said, I relate to the writer of feeling connected in an sense of how Allah is not neither a man nor a woman. Taken from a context that Allah is a God, void of any human aspects, *but when queerness is limited, it is easy to understand why Lamya found themselves relating to this aspect of being neither man nor woman*. With both of these understanings, I really really enjoy the passages that Lamya wrote in regards to God and their faith, "This God, who teaches us that we can be both and neither and all and beyond and capable of multiplicities and expansivness. Nonbinary, genderqueer. They, this God that is the God, my God, my Allah".
Lamya had such a beuatiful way of describing queerness through their faith. And only queer people, especially queer people with religious backgrounds, will understand.
With that said, I relate to the writer of feeling connected in an sense of how Allah is not neither a man nor a woman. Taken from a context that Allah is a God, void of any human aspects, *but when queerness is limited, it is easy to understand why Lamya found themselves relating to this aspect of being neither man nor woman*. With both of these understanings, I really really enjoy the passages that Lamya wrote in regards to God and their faith, "This God, who teaches us that we can be both and neither and all and beyond and capable of multiplicities and expansivness. Nonbinary, genderqueer. They, this God that is the God, my God, my Allah".
Lamya had such a beuatiful way of describing queerness through their faith. And only queer people, especially queer people with religious backgrounds, will understand.
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
This book inspired me in ways I don't even know how to express to the author it was moving, hopeful, gripping, personal, thought-provoking and might have actually gotten me out of the worst read slumps of my life! As a queer Muslim, this is the first book I have read with an author holding some of the same identities as me and it was deeply touching and supremely valuable. There does not feel like much hope for people like us so this book, that coalescences queer identity with Islam from a more knowledgable Muslim felt beautiful and healing. This has also brought me closer to my faith as a result, as being a revert who is also queer can feel so isolating; an isolation that Lamya captures so accurately (though under different circumstances). By the end, Lamya felt like my friend or maybe my own queer life mentor, making me feel that I can find someone who loves me for all that I am someday, I can love myself in all that I am (queer AND Muslim) and most wonderfully, God can love all that they made me to be.
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emotional
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Writing and publishing this book must have taken so much courage, but I’m incredibly grateful that the author did it. Lamya generously pulled me into a world that I knew very little about—the intersection between being a proud queer person and a devout Muslim. I enjoyed learning more about portions of the Quran through Lamya’s perspective and personal stories. I wish I had gotten to know her even more deeply, but I understand why some distance was necessary or preferred. The time-hopping made the audiobook a little difficult to track at times. But overall it is a really important memoir and I will be thinking of it often.
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