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Virtual Author Talk: Hijab Butch Blues
Thu, Mar 26
|Zoom
Join us for our first virtual event with the author of Hijab Butch Blues, Lamya H. Hijab Butch Blues is a memior that follows a queer hijabi Muslim immigrant who survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from stories in the Quran.
Time & Location
Mar 26, 2026, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Zoom
About the event
Join us for our first virtual event with the author of Hijab Butch Blues, Lamya H. Hijab Butch Blues is a memior that follows a queer hijabi Muslim immigrant who survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from stories in the Quran. Lamya H (she/they) is a queer Muslim writer and organizer living in New York City.
Lamya H (she/they) is a queer Muslim writer and organizer living in New York City. Their memoir HIJAB BUTCH BLUES (February, 2023 from Dial Press/Penguin Randomhouse) won the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize and a Stonewall Non-fiction Book Award, and was a finalist for Lambda Literary and Publishing Triangle Awards. Lamya’s work has appeared in Los Angeles Review of Books, Salon, Autostraddle, Vice, and others. She has received fellowships from Lambda Literary and Queer|Arts.
Lamya’s organizing work centers around creating spaces for LGBTQ+ Muslims, fighting Islamophobia, Palestine and prison abolition. In her…