We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

by Samra Habib

If it weren’t for having to read the Quran every day since as far back as I could remember, I would have believed I didn’t deserve to be happy, to be loved, or to have a choice in who I married. I would have spent my entire life believing that violence was just a given, a reality I had no choice but to tolerate. But Allah, my Allah, told me that I deserved better.

At the salon, women he didn’t know had created their own universe.