Sarah

“Queer indispensability?” Manal asks.
“It’s a concept I heard about at a play I went to a few months ago—a solo performance piece by a queer Sri Lankan trans man,” I tell her. “At one point, he talked about something he noticed, not only in himself, but in his queer friends and com“community—this way in which queer people tend to make themselves indispensable in their relationships and friendships. They’re so afraid of being left that they make themselves unleavable.”
― Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

“Love is never a sin, and the rules of men who don’t understand that don’t matter.”
― K. Ancrum, Icarus

“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.”
― Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

“This is the world fourteen-year-old me couldn’t even begin to imagine. I’m already here.”
― Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues