Reviews tagging 'Religious bigotry'

Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H

50 reviews

puttingwingsonwords's review against another edition

hopeful reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Racism, Sexism, Transphobia, Islamophobia, Religious bigotry, and Lesbophobia

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Domestic abuse and Deportation

ladythana's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Mental illness, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Xenophobia, Islamophobia, Religious bigotry, Lesbophobia, Toxic friendship, and Abandonment

Minor: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Police brutality, and Dysphoria

eed8's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Racism, Sexism, Islamophobia, Religious bigotry, and Lesbophobia

mbzoller's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective tense

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Racism, Transphobia, Xenophobia, Islamophobia, Religious bigotry, and Abandonment

Minor: Domestic abuse, Slavery, and Colonisation

torturedreadersdept's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Body horror, Bullying, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Xenophobia, Islamophobia, Grief, Religious bigotry, Lesbophobia, Outing, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Dysphoria, and Classism

Minor: Ableism, Confinement, Gun violence, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Transphobia, Violence, Police brutality, Abandonment, Alcohol, Colonisation, and Deportation

meagan123's review against another edition

reflective slow-paced

1.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Xenophobia, Islamophobia, Religious bigotry, Lesbophobia, and Classism

Minor: Biphobia and Slavery

melnao1's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

 This book nestles right between religion and queerness, feels how uncomfortable it can be, and makes a home there. A beautifully written memoir surrounding the complicated aspects of being perceived by others while navigating new emotions, feelings and bodily experiences. I LOVED the religious embodiment of her story woven through different stories from the Quran. This itched something in my brain 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Islamophobia, Religious bigotry, and War

emmehooks's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

This book does a beautiful job of intertwining the author’s experiences with queerness, faithfulness, immigration, racism, xenophobia, and biological and chosen family (to name a few).

I loved the structure of the book and the way they aligned the themes of different religious texts with themes of their life.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Racism, Transphobia, Xenophobia, Islamophobia, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, and Colonisation

Minor: Biphobia

ghost_rider's review

emotional informative inspiring slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Religious bigotry, and Lesbophobia

lizziaha's review

hopeful

4.25

I have a lot of respect and admiration for religious queer people. I think it requires a great deal of introspection and hope and trust in a higher power; I envy that kind of faith. And I think it can make your queerness more complicated and also more beautiful. And I think that’s a line that Lamya walks in this book. The format of her experiences intertwined with parables from the Quran worked really well for this. And for me it was interesting to see this aspect of religion. Since I was raised Christian, many of the stories were familiar, with additions, subtractions, and adjustments that occasionally changed the whole shape of the story. And Lamya’s interpretations turn them into something even more powerful. This too feels familiar. I remember shaping my own faith in a way that many other members of my religion did not relate to. It is such a holy act of love and self-love and I’m glad to see it recorded her. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, and Islamophobia

Moderate: Xenophobia, Religious bigotry, and Deportation

Minor: Domestic abuse and Toxic relationship