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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: — The Door That Doubt Opens
Chapter 3: — Maryam and the Will to Live
Chapter 4: — Jinn, Race, and the Stories We Tell
Chapter 5: — Naming God, Naming Yourself
Chapter 6: — Musa’s Prayer and the Untied Tongue
Chapter 7: — Finding Your People, Finding Your Mic
Chapter 8: — Asiyah and the Art of Endurance
Chapter 9: — Floods, Arks, and the Risk of Being Loved
Chapter 10: — Yusuf and the Practice of Receiving Love
Chapter 11: — Hajar, Hidden Sacrifices, and Quiet Joy
Chapter 12: — Yunus and the Mercy of Walking Away
Chapter 13: — A Map You Can Redraw
Description
Hijab Butch Blues is a sharp, tender memoir about growing up brown, Muslim, queer, and alive to every contradiction. With the Quran as a companion and conversation partner, Lamya H revisits the lives of Maryam, Musa, Hajar, Yunus, and others while piecing together her own. We follow her from a childhood steeped in fear and invisibility, through teenage nights with secret crushes, to adulthood in America with its IDs, borders, and hard-won belonging. The result isn’t just a spiritual narrative or a coming‑out story—it’s a blueprint for staying rooted while remaking the ground under your feet. This 30‑minute narrative draws a single, clear thread through faith, gender, love, and community so you can feel the whole arc: from wanting to disappear to choosing a life you recognize as yours.
Who Should Listen
- Queer and questioning people of faith looking for language and lineage
- Listeners who love memoirs that braid personal story with sacred text
- Anyone navigating family, culture, and identity at the same time
- Book clubs seeking a compassionate, provocative conversation starter