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Hijab Butch Blues: Endings and Beginnings In the final chapter, Lamya touches on her own activist burnout, and decides she’s not going to stop fighting, but is going to fight differently…

18 hr ago

Hijab Butch Blues: The Dating Game Last month we had a discussion thread about all the precautions women take before going on a date from the apps. This month we got a fun chapter…

Mar 27

Hijab Butch Blues: Beyond Suffering The chapter about Asiyah was a fascinating look into the ethos of Lamya’s mother and women of her generation. Even today, there are still numero…

Mar 24

Hijab Butch Blues: Coming Out In the first two chapters of this section, Lamya talks about her different experiences coming out and trying to find her place within both the q…

Mar 21

Hijab Butch Blues: New Understandings When Lamya tells stories she’s heard about the Jinn, she intersperses them with experiences of colorism and racism in both the Middle East and t…

Mar 19

Hijab Butch Blues: An Origin Story In the first section of the book, Lamya discusses her adolescent years and her desire to die, or more accurately, to never have existed. One day…

Mar 17

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