“This better world—that is the world I’m fighting for from inside the whale, this world I want to be birthed into. A world that is kinder, more generous, more just. A world that takes care of the marginalized, the poor, the sick. Where wealth and resources are redistributed, where reparations are made for the harms of history, where stolen land is given back. Where the environment is cared for and respected, and all species are cared for and respected. Where conflicts are dealt with in gentleness. Where people take care of each other and feel empowered to be their truest selves. Where anger is allowed and joy is allowed and fun is allowed and quietness is allowed and loudness is allowed and being wrong is allowed and everything, everything, everything is rooted in love. And maybe that’s an unattainable utopia.But I’ve found a few smaller versions of this world—in the ground rules Liv and I set on the bus en route to meeting my family; in the grace Cara showed me when I came out to her; in the patience with which Zu mentored me. I’m not naïve enough to think we’ll reach this utopia in my lifetime or possibly ever, but I’m also not faithless enough to think that the direction in which I strive doesn’t matter, that these smaller versions of the world aren’t leading us there.”
― Hijab Butch Blues
― Hijab Butch Blues
“Where the hell is Ralph?”
― I'll Give You the Sun
― I'll Give You the Sun
“This is the world fourteen-year-old me couldn’t even begin to imagine. I’m already here.”
― Hijab Butch Blues
― Hijab Butch Blues
“don’t need a partner: I have my friends, my queer Muslim community, my cat. I have my work, my writing, and a reliable vibrator. I don’t need a partner. I’ve tried everything, and I’m done. I need to escape from the cycles I’m caught in. I need to start over.”
― Hijab Butch Blues
― Hijab Butch Blues
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