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Hijab Butch Blues

Author : Lamya H
Publisher : Dial Press Trade Paperback
ISBN 13 : 0593448782
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (934 download)

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Download or read book Hijab Butch Blues written by Lamya H and published by Dial Press Trade Paperback. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from stories in the Quran in this “raw and relatable memoir that challenges societal norms and expectations” (Linah Mohammad, NPR). “A masterful, must-read contribution to conversations on power, justice, healing, and devotion from a singular voice I now trust with my whole heart.”—Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Untamed AN AUDACIOUS BOOK CLUB PICK • WINNER: The Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize, the Stonewall Book Award, the Israel Fishman Nonfiction Award A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, Autostraddle, Book Riot, BookPage, Harper’s Bazaar, Electric Lit, She Reads When fourteen-year-old Lamya H realizes she has a crush on her teacher—her female teacher—she covers up her attraction, an attraction she can’t yet name, by playing up her roles as overachiever and class clown. Born in South Asia, she moved to the Middle East at a young age and has spent years feeling out of place, like her own desires and dreams don’t matter, and it’s easier to hide in plain sight. To disappear. But one day in Quran class, she reads a passage about Maryam that changes everything: When Maryam learned that she was pregnant, she insisted no man had touched her. Could Maryam, uninterested in men, be . . . like Lamya? From that moment on, Lamya makes sense of her struggles and triumphs by comparing her experiences with some of the most famous stories in the Quran. She juxtaposes her coming out with Musa liberating his people from the pharoah; asks if Allah, who is neither male nor female, might instead be nonbinary; and, drawing on the faith and hope Nuh needed to construct his ark, begins to build a life of her own—ultimately finding that the answer to her lifelong quest for community and belonging lies in owning her identity as a queer, devout Muslim immigrant. This searingly intimate memoir in essays, spanning Lamya’s childhood to her arrival in the United States for college through early-adult life in New York City, tells a universal story of courage, trust, and love, celebrating what it means to be a seeker and an architect of one’s own life.

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Author : Milkyway Media
Publisher : Milkyway Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Summary of Lamya H's Hijab Butch Blues written by Milkyway Media and published by Milkyway Media. This book was released on 2024-03-26 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get the Summary of Lamya H's Hijab Butch Blues in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Hijab Butch Blues" is a memoir by Lamya H. that explores her journey of self-discovery, spirituality, and identity as a queer Muslim woman. The narrative intertwines personal experiences with reflections on Quranic stories, particularly focusing on the figures of Maryam (Mary) and Hajar (Hagar). Lamya H. grapples with her sexuality, the desire to vanish, and the complexities of living in a society with rigid expectations...

Stone Butch Blues

Author : Leslie Feinberg
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1459608453
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Stone Butch Blues written by Leslie Feinberg and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1993, this brave, original novel is considered to be the finest account ever written of the complexities of a transgendered existence. Woman or man? Thats the question that rages like a storm around Jess Goldberg, clouding her life and her identity. Growing up differently gendered in a blue--collar town in the 1950s, coming out as a butch in the bars and factories of the prefeminist 60s, deciding to pass as a man in order to survive when she is left without work or a community in the early 70s. This powerful, provocative and deeply moving novel sees Jess coming full circle, she learns to accept the complexities of being a transgendered person in a world demanding simple explanations: a he-she emerging whole, weathering the turbulence.

We Have Always Been Here

Author : Samra Habib
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735235015
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book We Have Always Been Here written by Samra Habib and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CANADA READS 2020 WINNER NATIONAL BESTSELLER 2020 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD WINNER How do you find yourself when the world tells you that you don't exist? Samra Habib has spent most of her life searching for the safety to be herself. As an Ahmadi Muslim growing up in Pakistan, she faced regular threats from Islamic extremists who believed the small, dynamic sect to be blasphemous. From her parents, she internalized the lesson that revealing her identity could put her in grave danger. When her family came to Canada as refugees, Samra encountered a whole new host of challenges: bullies, racism, the threat of poverty, and an arranged marriage. Backed into a corner, her need for a safe space--in which to grow and nurture her creative, feminist spirit--became dire. The men in her life wanted to police her, the women in her life had only shown her the example of pious obedience, and her body was a problem to be solved. So begins an exploration of faith, art, love, and queer sexuality, a journey that takes her to the far reaches of the globe to uncover a truth that was within her all along. A triumphant memoir of forgiveness and family, both chosen and not, We Have Always Been Here is a rallying cry for anyone who has ever felt out of place and a testament to the power of fearlessly inhabiting one's truest self.

City of Incurable Women

Author : Maud Casey
Publisher : Bellevue Literary Press
ISBN 13 : 1942658907
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book City of Incurable Women written by Maud Casey and published by Bellevue Literary Press. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a fusion of fact and fiction, nineteenth-century women institutionalized as hysterics reveal what history ignored “City of Incurable Women is a brilliant exploration of the type of female bodily and psychic pain once commonly diagnosed as hysteria—and the curiously hysterical response to it commonly exhibited by medical men. It is a novel of powerful originality, riveting historical interest, and haunting lyrical beauty.” —Sigrid Nunez, author of The Friend and What Are You Going Through “Where are the hysterics, those magnificent women of former times?” wrote Jacques Lacan. Long history’s ghosts, marginalized and dispossessed due to their gender and class, they are reimagined by Maud Casey as complex, flesh-and-blood people with stories to tell. These linked, evocative prose portraits, accompanied by period photographs and medical documents both authentic and invented, poignantly restore the humanity to the nineteenth-century female psychiatric patients confined in Paris’s Salpêtrière hospital and reduced to specimens for study by the celebrated neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot and his male colleagues.

Trans Liberation

Author : Leslie Feinberg
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807079515
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (795 download)

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Download or read book Trans Liberation written by Leslie Feinberg and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 1999-10-10 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Those who have heard Leslie Feinberg speak in person know how powerful and inspiring s/he can be. In Trans Liberation, Feinberg has gathered a collection of hir speeches on trans liberation and its essential connection to the liberation of all people. This wonderfully immediate, impassioned, and stirring book is for anyone who cares about civil rights and creating a just and equitable society.

Bangkok Wakes to Rain

Author : Pitchaya Sudbanthad
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0525534768
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Bangkok Wakes to Rain written by Pitchaya Sudbanthad and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A house in the center of Bangkok becomes the point of confluence where lives are shaped by upheaval, memory, and the lure of home. Witness to two centuries' flux in one of the world's most restless cities, a house plays host to longings and losses past, present, and future. A nineteenth-century missionary doctor pines for the comforts of New England even as he finds the vibrant foreign chaos of Siam increasingly difficult to resist. A post-war society woman marries, mothers, and holds court, little suspecting the course of her future. A jazz pianist is summoned in the 1970s to conjure music that will pacify resident spirits, even as he's haunted by ghosts of his former life. Not long after, a young woman gives swimming lessons in the luxury condos that have eclipsed the old house, trying to outpace the long shadow of her political past. And in the post-submergence Bangkok of the future, a band of savvy teenagers guides tourists and former residents past waterlogged, ruined landmarks, selling them tissues to wipe their tears for places they themselves do not remember. Time collapses as these stories collide and converge, linked by blood, memory, yearning, chance, and the forces voraciously making and remaking the amphibian, ever-morphing city itself"--Provided by publisher.

Unicorn

Author : Amrou Al-Kadhi
Publisher : Fourth Estate
ISBN 13 : 9780008306069
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Unicorn written by Amrou Al-Kadhi and published by Fourth Estate. This book was released on 2019 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a god-fearing Muslim boy enraptured with their mother, to a vocal, queer drag queen estranged from their family, this is a heart-breaking and hilarious memoir about the author's fight to be true to themself.

Queerly Beloved

Author : Susie Dumond
Publisher : Dial Press Trade Paperback
ISBN 13 : 0593243978
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Queerly Beloved written by Susie Dumond and published by Dial Press Trade Paperback. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A people-pleasing baker tries to find her place as a bridesmaid-for-hire. Will she finally find her happily ever after—and her own voice? “A delightful debut, perfect for any person who’s ever created their own place to belong.”—Casey McQuiston, bestselling author of Red, White & Royal Blue and One Last Stop FINALIST FOR THE LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Book Riot Amy, a semicloseted queer baker and bartender in mid-2010s Oklahoma, has spent a lifetime putting other people’s needs before her own. Until, that is, she’s fired from her job at a Christian bakery and turns her one-off gig subbing in for a bridesmaid into a full-time business, thanks to her baking talents, crafting skills, and years watching rom-coms and Say Yes to the Dress. Between her new gig and meeting Charley, the attractive engineer who’s just moved to Tulsa, suddenly Amy’s found something—and someone—she actually wants. Her tight-knit group of chosen family is thrilled that Amy is becoming her authentic self. But when her deep desire to please kicks into overdrive, Amy’s precarious balancing act strains her relationships to the breaking point, and she must decide what it looks like to be true to herself—and if she has the courage to try.

Miss Major Speaks

Author : Miss Major Griffin-Gracy
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1839763353
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (397 download)

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Download or read book Miss Major Speaks written by Miss Major Griffin-Gracy and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2023-05-16 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy is a veteran of the infamous Stonewall Riots, a former sex worker, and a transgender elder and activist who has survived Bellevue psychiatric hospital, Attica Prison, the HIV/AIDS crisis and a world that white supremacy has built. She has shared tips with other sex workers in the nascent drag ball scene of the late 1960s, and helped found one of America's first needle exchange clinics from the back of her van. Miss Major Speaks is both document of her brilliant life-told with intimacy, warmth and an undeniable levity-and a roadmap for the challenges black, brown, queer and trans youth will face on the path to liberation today. Her incredible story of a life lived and a world survived becomes a conduit for larger questions about the riddle of collective liberation. For a younger generation, she warns about the traps of 'representation,' the politics of 'self-care,' and the frequent dead-ends of non-profit organizing; for all of us, she is a strike against those who would erase these histories of struggle. Miss Major offers something that cannot be found elsewhere: an affirmation that our vision for freedom can and must be more expansive than those on offer by mainstream institutions.

When We Were Outlaws

Author : Jeanne Córdova
Publisher : Spinsters Ink Books
ISBN 13 : 9781935226512
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book When We Were Outlaws written by Jeanne Córdova and published by Spinsters Ink Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping memoir, a raw and intimate chronicle of a young activist torn between conflicting personal longings and political goals. When We Were Outlaws offers a rare view of the life of a radical lesbian during the early cultural struggle for gay rights, Women's Liberation, and the New Left of the 1970s. Brash and ambitious, activist Jeanne Córdova is living with one woman and falling in love with another, but her passionate beliefs tell her that her first duty is "to the revolution" -to change the world and end discrimination against gays and lesbians. Trying to compartmentalize her sexual life, she becomes an investigative reporter for the famous, underground L.A. Free Press and finds herself involved with covering the Weather Underground, Angela Davis; exposing neo-Nazi bomber Captain Joe Tomassi, and befriending Emily Harris of the Symbionese Liberation Army. At the same time she is creating what will be the center of her revolutionary lesbian world: her own newsmagazine, The Lesbian Tide, destined to become the voice of the national lesbian feminist movement. By turns provocative and daringly honest, Cordova renders emblematic scenes of the era--ranging from strike protests to utopian music festivals, to underground meetings with radical fugitives--with period detail and evocative characters. For those who came of age in the '70s, and for those who weren't around but still ask 'What was it like?' -Outlaws takes you back to re-live it. It also offers insights about ethics, decision making and strategy, still relevant today. With an introduction by renowned lesbian historian Lillian Faderman, When We Were Outlaws paints a vivid portrait of activism and the search for self-identity, set against the turbulent landscape of multiple struggles for social change that swept hundreds of thousands of Americans into the streets.

The Girl Who Fell to Earth

Author : Sophia Al-Maria
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062098748
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book The Girl Who Fell to Earth written by Sophia Al-Maria and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning filmmaker and writer Sophia Al-Maria’s The Girl Who Fell to Earth is a funny and wry coming-of-age memoir about growing up in between American and Gulf Arab cultures. Part family saga and part personal quest, The Girl Who Fell to Earth traces Al-Maria’s journey to make a place for herself in two different worlds. When Sophia Al-Maria's mother sends her away from rainy Washington State to stay with her husband's desert-dwelling Bedouin family in Qatar, she intends it to be a sort of teenage cultural boot camp. What her mother doesn't know is that there are some things about growing up that are universal. In Qatar, Sophia is faced with a new world she'd only imagined as a child. She sets out to find her freedom, even in the most unlikely of places. The Girl Who Fell to Earth takes readers from the green valleys of the Pacific Northwest to the dunes of the Arabian Gulf and on to the sprawling chaos of Cairo. Struggling to adapt to her nomadic lifestyle, Sophia is haunted by the feeling that she is perpetually in exile: hovering somewhere between two families, two cultures, and two worlds. She must make a place for herself—a complex journey that includes finding young love in the Arabian Gulf, rebellion in Cairo, and, finally, self-discovery in the mountains of Sinai. The Girl Who Fell to Earth heralds the arrival of an electric new talent and takes us on the most personal of quests: the voyage home.

Auld and New in Edinburgh

Author : Lucy Dodsworth
Publisher : Hardie Grant Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1761441647
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (614 download)

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Download or read book Auld and New in Edinburgh written by Lucy Dodsworth and published by Hardie Grant Publishing. This book was released on 2024-04-03 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Auld and New in Edinburgh is your curated guide to the best of the Scottish capital, highlighting the most interesting cultural, shopping, eating and drinking experiences. Bursting with history and a heart warm enough for even the chilliest of winter days, Edinburgh is one of Europe’s must-see cities. Be charmed as you travel through Edinburgh's diverse neighbourhoods – from the cobbled closes and bagpipers of the Royal Mile to the thriving food scene in Leith's regenerated docklands. Author Lucy Dodsworth shares Edinburgh's highlights and unlocks some of its lesser-known gems, including secret gardens, speakeasy-style cocktail bars and subterranean streets. Full and half-day itineraries help you navigate the best of the city, and daytrips to Inchcolm Island, North Berwick, Glasgow and St Andrews encourage you to venture further afield. Slip this guide in your pocket and discover Auld Reekie like a local.