My friends— Another queer read for your bookshelf! This read was written by a queer Muslim (I’m all about intersectionality) and is a compilation of poetry. Fatimah Asghar’s If They Come For Us navigates gender, religion and sexuality amidst the ongoing Western-backed and driven conflicts in the Middle East (even if only in the form of imperialism that spread in the Middle East and South Asia). Throughout the nuanced, but vivid poetry, Fatimah does not openly declare one sexuality or gender or another—but rather explores inner “contradictions” and expressions of their sexuality (for example, in one of their works, they write about the boy in them that rises up, and dreams of having a different body than their current). Woven into the poems is the pain of not belonging, the question of identity with respect to people and places—something that resonated with me on a spiritual level, as well as a physical level (I’ll write more about that another time). This title is certainly a favorite on my gayshelf!
A Winter Read for the GayShelf
A Winter Read for the GayShelf
A Winter Read for the GayShelf
My friends— Another queer read for your bookshelf! This read was written by a queer Muslim (I’m all about intersectionality) and is a compilation of poetry. Fatimah Asghar’s If They Come For Us navigates gender, religion and sexuality amidst the ongoing Western-backed and driven conflicts in the Middle East (even if only in the form of imperialism that spread in the Middle East and South Asia). Throughout the nuanced, but vivid poetry, Fatimah does not openly declare one sexuality or gender or another—but rather explores inner “contradictions” and expressions of their sexuality (for example, in one of their works, they write about the boy in them that rises up, and dreams of having a different body than their current). Woven into the poems is the pain of not belonging, the question of identity with respect to people and places—something that resonated with me on a spiritual level, as well as a physical level (I’ll write more about that another time). This title is certainly a favorite on my gayshelf!