Reviews - Hijab Butch Blues

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Hijab Butch Blues

Lamya H.

4.59 AVERAGE

eglorioso's review against another edition

3.5

emotional informative reflective slow-paced

schippert1's review against another edition

4.5

emotional inspiring medium-paced

jessicanoel's review against another edition

5.0

challenging emotional reflective tense medium-paced

onmybed's review

1.75

Oh, the arrogance of human vanity for insistence on self-importance, placing your nafs (self) and your experience against the commandments and teachings, and pillaging religious stories to punctuate your eureka moments.

Hijab Butch Blues is such a surface-level analysis, observation, and narration of deep cultural elements and sacred religious texts. It reads like just another "brown" memoir that is self-proclaiming to "blend" identities, adamant that it pulled the point off. But it just dilutes the authentic elements and symbols and relies on repetition and shock to make the evidence in the arguments.

It is distasteful, like most diaspora writings, trying to distil cultural and religious elements into Americanised labels, erasing their existence and unique history in attempting to translate them into English, which can be altered and expanded when not catering to a predominately white audience to sell them our ideas and idenitites in a palatable, semi-liberal, and edgy narrative, and instead conforms to the same mainstream labels to justify its existence.