A review by jennybeautifulbook
We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir by Samra Habib

4.0

 An amazing memoir. Habib recounts her childhood as an Ahmadi Muslim in Pakistan, where her family had to hide to stay safe in the face of Islamic extremists and then how this pattern of hiding combined with sexism and homophobia followed her to Canada, where she felt forced to hide her femininity and queerness. Passages about her finding her people, other queer Muslims, made me cry.