QCL Book Club is back for April, and this month we’re reading Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H.
📖About Hijab Butch Blues
Written with deep intelligence and a fierce humour, Hijab Butch Blues follows Lamya as she travels to the United States, as she comes out, and as she navigates the complexities of the immigration system - and the queer dating scene. At each step, she turns to her faith to make sense of her life, weaving stories from the Quran together with her own experiences.
Raw and unflinching, Hijab Butch Blues heralds the arrival of a truly original voice, asking powerful questions about gender and sexuality, relationships, identity and faith, and what it means to build a life of one's own.
Please note this book does contain some potentially distressing themes, so please proceed with caution and have a look at trigger warnings online before you read. The following website might be useful: https://booktriggerwarnings.com/Hijab_Butch_Blues:_A_Memoir_by_Lamya_H
🌈 About QCL Book Club
Join a friendly and like-minded group of book-loving LGBTQ+ creatives, to discuss a classic and diverse range of queer texts.
We read one book per month and meet once a month at Thingy Cafe in Hackney, on the last Tuesday of every month from 7pm - 9pm.
Thingy Cafe is a wonderful and spacious community cafe in Hackney Wick, with a lush garden space, selling a range of drinks and bites. It is fully wheelchair accessible and has an accessible toilet.
QCL Book Club is a FREE event, and is open to a maximum of 30 people per meeting. Tickets are first come first serve.
🫂Accessibility
We are a neurodivergent and disability friendly book club and aim to make our meetings as accessible as possible! There is no pressure to speak during meetings if you don’t wish to, or to finish text before meetings if this isn’t possible.
We also have first aiders and mental health first aiders present at each event.
If you have any access needs you’d like to discuss before attending, or if you have any other questions, please get in touch! You can contact us on our Instagram @queercreativeslondon or via email at events@queercreativeslondon.co.uk
If you have a ticket but are unable to attend, please return your ticket ASAP, so that someone else can come in your place.
