Unicorn: The Memoir of a Muslim Drag Queen
By: Amrou Al-Kadhi
4.22
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From a god-fearing Muslim boy enraptured with their mother, to a vocal, queer drag queen estranged …
Want to Read $ 9.99"I was desperate to present as transgressive, but also to be entirely accepted within spaces that were anything but that."-Amrou Al-Kadhi, Unicorn: The Memoir of a Muslim Drag Queen
"As a queer person, I believe almost dogmatically in difference, in the idea that every single person is unique, with their own innate sense of self, and that it is this difference which brings all of us together as one."-Amrou Al-Kadhi, Unicorn: The Memoir of a Muslim Drag Queen
"You might be questioning why I allowed Mason to treat me this way. I often do myself. But at the age of sixteen, and as someone who had not found true acceptance anywhere I turned, I was willing to accept any crumbs of acceptance that were thrown my way."-Amrou Al-Kadhi, Unicorn: The Memoir of a Muslim Drag Queen
"You might be questioning why I allowed Mason to treat me this way. I often do myself. But at the age of sixteen, and as someone who had not found true acceptance anywhere I turned, I was willing to accept any crumbs of acceptance that were thrown my way."-Amrou Al-Kadhi, Unicorn: The Memoir of a Muslim Drag Queen
If you liked the queer plot in Unicorn: The Memoir of a Muslim Drag Queen by Amrou Al-Kadhi , here is a list of 13 books like this:
1. Patchwork
By: Ellen Banda-Aaku
3.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
Winner of the Penguin Prize for African Writing 2010 (fiction). Destined from birth to inhabit two … read more
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2. None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary
By: Travis Alabanza
4.38
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
‘When you are someone that falls outside of categories in so many ways, a lot of things are said to… read more
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- audiobook
- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- queer
3. Mona of the Manor (Tales of the City, #10)
By: Armistead Maupin
4.11
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The tenth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Franci… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- queer
4. Ghosts: The Button House Archives
By: Mathew Baynton
4.56
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The comic companion to the BBC sitcom GHOSTS. Everybody leaves a trace. The ghosts of Button Hou… read more
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- audiobook
5. Homebody
By: Theo Parish
4.43
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In their comics debut, Theo Parish masterfully weaves an intimate and defiantly hopeful memoir abou… read more
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- lgbt
- queer
"Being openly queer can feel intimidating. But every day just by being yourself you inspire the people around you. You don't have to be an influencer to influence!"-Theo Parish, Homebody
"There is no one way to be transgender, just like there is no one way to be cisgender. We are all just trying to find a place to call our own. We are all deserving of comfort and safety, a place to ca…"-Theo Parish, Homebody
"Living authentically in a world that takes every opportunity to squeeze you uncomfortably into a box of someone else's design...that is the most radical act of self love. Blossoming in an environment…"-Theo Parish, Homebody
"Words are important. They allow us to communicate how we think and feel. Words help us to understand and to be understood. So, finally grasping the language you've been reaching for, to explain this …"-Theo Parish, Homebody
6. Hijab Butch Blues
By: Lamya H.
4.48
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from storie… read more
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- audiobook
- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- biography memoir
- religion
- nonfiction
- queer
"Sort of?"-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"Queer indispensability?"-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"I feel tired. Or reckless. Or maybe brave."-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"I want to figure her out, this girl, and I want to know everything about her."-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
7. The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
By: Shon Faye
4.55
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
Trans people in Britain today have become a culture war 'issue'. Despite making up less than 1% of … read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- lgbt
- queer
"The idea that conspicuous consumption is a route to sexual and gender freedom has been effective in allowing the LGBT movement’s muscles to atrophy. In a godless age, there are new ways to give the m…"-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
"The idea that conspicuous consumption is a route to sexual and gender freedom has been effective in allowing the LGBT movement's muscles to atrophy. In a godless age, there are new ways to give the m…"-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
"Together, an LGBTQ+ coalition with class consciousness and anti-racism at its core must recover its radicalism and reaffirm its opposition to capitalism and patriarchy. Infighting and division are in…"-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
8. Nothing Important Happened Today (Detective Sergeant Pace, #2)
By: Will Carver
3.58
Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition
When strangers take part in a series of group suicides, everything suggests that a cult is to blame… read more
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- audiobook
9. ADHD: an A to Z
By: Leanne Maskell
4.22
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Navigating the world with an ADHD brain can be exhausting. The rollercoaster ride from clinical ass… read more
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- nonfiction
10. One Moment
By: Linda Green
4.41
Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition
Finn and Kaz are about to meet for the first time. Ten-year-old Finn, a quirky, sensitive boy who t… read more
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- audiobook
11. The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems
By: Hala Alyan
4.22
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
From the author of The Arsonists’ City and The Twenty-Ninth Year, a new collection of poetry that t… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"My favorite house is my mother."-Hala Alyan, The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems
"I don’t have time to write about the soul. There are bodies to count. There’s a man wearing his wedding tuxedo to sleep in case I meet God and there’s a brick of light before each bombing."-Hala Alyan, The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems
12. The School for Invisible Boys
By: Shaun David Hutchinson
4.08
Format: None pages, None
What would you do if no one could see you? In this surreal adventure, a boy who is used to being ov… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- queer
13. How Was It for You?: Stories from a Sex Worker
By: Eve Smith
3.66
Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition
The author of How Was It for You? is a sex worker. Let’s call her ‘Eve’. Eve is someone’s partner. … read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- audiobook
14. A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar
By: Harry Nicholas
4.07
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
‘On the bookshelves, there was plenty of stuff on being gay, and much needed, joyous accounts of wh… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- queer
15. All the Things They Said We Couldn't Have: Stories of Trans Joy
By: T. C. Oakes-Monger
4.52
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
An uplifting and beautifully crafted collection of stories that celebrate the joy of being trans. W… read more
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- lgbt
- nonfiction
- memoir
- queer
16. World Running Down
By: Al Hess
3.97
Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition
Valentine Weis is a salvager in the future wastelands of Utah. Wrestling with body dysphoria, he dr… read more
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- lgbt
- queer
17. Before the Queen Falls Asleep
By: Huzama Habayeb
3.58
Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition
Born a girl to parents who expected a boy, Jihad grows up treated like the eldest son, wearing boy'… read more
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18. Transitional: In One Way or Another, We All Transition
By: Munroe Bergdorf
4.08
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The wise, life-changing, ground-breaking book from writer and activist Munroe Bergdorf. Transitioni… read more
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- audiobook
- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- queer
"Everything is an attempt to flee if you can't love who you are."-Munroe Bergdorf, Transitional: In One Way or Another, We All Transition
"You can't run away from yourself. The destination will always be you. I only stopped running away when I made myself into the home I no longer wanted to run away from. I wish I'd come to that realisa…"-Munroe Bergdorf, Transitional: In One Way or Another, We All Transition
"Being conscious of our trauma, and recognising how it unavoidably manifests itself within our approach to romantic and platonic relations, skies is to strategise our connections. It helps us to it he…"-Munroe Bergdorf, Transitional: In One Way or Another, We All Transition
"We all transition. It's what binds us, not what separates us. Be it through moving from childhood into adolescence, our sexuality, our gender, in our relationship with love, our racial identity or in…"-Munroe Bergdorf, Transitional: In One Way or Another, We All Transition
19. Unicorn: The Memoir of a Muslim Drag Queen
By: Amrou Al-Kadhi
4.22
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From a god-fearing Muslim boy enraptured with their mother, to a vocal, queer drag queen estranged … read more
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- audiobook
- islam
- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- religion
- nonfiction
- queer
"I was desperate to present as transgressive, but also to be entirely accepted within spaces that were anything but that."-Amrou Al-Kadhi, Unicorn: The Memoir of a Muslim Drag Queen
"As a queer person, I believe almost dogmatically in difference, in the idea that every single person is unique, with their own innate sense of self, and that it is this difference which brings all of…"-Amrou Al-Kadhi, Unicorn: The Memoir of a Muslim Drag Queen
"You might be questioning why I allowed Mason to treat me this way. I often do myself. But at the age of sixteen, and as someone who had not found true acceptance anywhere I turned, I was willing to a…"-Amrou Al-Kadhi, Unicorn: The Memoir of a Muslim Drag Queen
20. Drag: The Complete Story (A Look at the History and Culture of Drag)
By: Simon Doonan
3.86
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Drag is transformation, communication, and, above all, exaggeration, where gender non-conformity is… read more
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- nonfiction
- lgbt
- queer
21. Decolonize Drag (Decolonize That!)
By: Kareem Khubchandani
4.36
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Although imagined as a subcultural practice, drag seems to be everywhere we from AI filters on Tik… read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
