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Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H

32 reviews

offbrandclubsoda's review

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

10/10 would recommend this to every Queer person, especially Queer Muslims

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Homophobia, Islamophobia, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Transphobia

Minor: Domestic abuse

silvae's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Xenophobia, and Racism

Moderate: Transphobia, Religious bigotry, and Homophobia

poisoned_icecream's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Xenophobia, Racism, Homophobia, Transphobia, and Islamophobia

amandalorianxo's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

The way this was written in relation each of the chapters/ important figures from the Quran gave me (a non Muslim, cis hetero woman) insight I learned so much about from the perspective of a queer non binary Muslim person. While there was a tiny bit that was repetitive, the questioning & awareness they go through seems to be something that I’m sure everyone must have experienced at least once. I can’t speak about the insight Lamya H makes about several passages that are in the Quran but I can say that their frankness was something I haven’t seen in a while in a memoir when discussing religion. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Moderate: Homophobia, Transphobia, Lesbophobia, and Religious bigotry

marigoldgem's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Racial slurs, Body shaming, Bullying, Racism, Classism, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Toxic friendship, Xenophobia, Islamophobia, Misogyny, Religious bigotry, and Transphobia

Minor: Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Confinement, and Emotional abuse

archiveofrasa's review against another edition

hopeful informative reflective relaxing medium-paced

5.0

this bitch finished this in a day. as a queer South Asian Muslim: this memoir was for people like me.

the ending really bumped this up to 5 stars for me, it was stuck at 4-something but that interpretation of Surah Yunus – absolutely perfect. I loved all of the ways Lamya weaved stories of the Qu'ran into their experiences and really appreciated it as someone who hadn't gotten the chance to properly read the translations of those stories. of course, these are interpretations and no one is to say how "right" or "wrong" they are. 

this book is so much more than the synopsis portrays. this memoir talks about queer discovery but also discusses being the "Good" version of either identity (the Good Muslim, the Good Queer Person), immigration, South Asian/Muslim views on marriage, intersectional racism and xenophobia, the contradictory beliefs our parents and elders hold, abandonment, self-reflection and activism. it discusses so many topics in ways that made me think and made me understand things I couldn't put into words.

it's also so important to me that this is a memoir and not fiction. it restores my hope in my environment and the people I'll encounter when I grow older. the faith that I will get a happy ending and have a good network of people that'll love and support me in their wonderful ways. honestly, all I can say is that I'm so grateful Lamya chose to share this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Islamophobia, Homophobia, Racism, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Transphobia

Minor: Domestic abuse

kirstym25's review

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Islamophobia, Xenophobia, and Homophobia

Moderate: Transphobia

Minor: Domestic abuse

sarahsbookstacks's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Islamophobia, Racism, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Classism, Transphobia, Religious bigotry, Suicidal thoughts, and Colonisation

carriepond's review against another edition

inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.75

In Hijab Butch Blues, author Lamya H intermingles stories from the Quran and their own experiences growing up queer and Muslim, first in the Middle East and then, as an adult, in the United States after moving for college. 

This was a great memoir. The author very eloquently discusses the feeling that persisted throughout their life of not quite fitting-- not quite fitting in growing up in the Middle East with dark brown skin and less wealth than schoolmates, and not quite fitting with the queer communities and Muslim communities after moving for the United States. There are also a lot of great reflections on coming out, the risks and rewards of that decision, and whether queer people need to be out to live, as someone told the author, "an authentically gay life." And along with these great reflections, we hear Lamya's own story, which is earnest and honest. 

Recommend for folks who like memoirs, especially queer or coming-of-age memoirs. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Islamophobia

Moderate: Racism, Transphobia, and Homophobia

Minor: Physical abuse, Child abuse, and Infidelity

notartgarfunkel's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Racism, Islamophobia, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Racial slurs, Suicidal thoughts, Homophobia, Religious bigotry, and Transphobia

Minor: Ableism and Classism