A BreakBeat Poets anthology of writings by Muslims who are women, queer, genderqueer, nonbinary, or trans. They discuss the hybrid languages their families speak - Arabic and English for Safia and Urdu-Shreiki-English for Fatimah - which they revere on the page. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. Something went wrong. Everyone has seemed to love this book. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. I'm so grateful for this book!

Fatimah Asghar is the creator of the Emmy-Nominated web series Brown Girls, now in development for HBO.

They wanted to provide a platform for other Muslims grappling with intersectional identities, and so published Halal If You Hear Me. That was the first thing that Safia and I talked about when we first came up with the idea of Halal If You Hear Me , an anthology highlighting the voices of Muslim women, gender non-conforming, queer, and trans writers. Read about our approach to external linking. Halal If You Hear Me. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books.

Safia Elhillo is the author of The January Children (University of Nebraska Press, 2017), recipient of the 2016 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets. Halal If You Hear Me features poems by Safia Elhillo, Fatimah Asghar, Warsan Shire, Tarfia Faizullah, Angel Nafis, Beyza Ozer, and many others. 3: Halal If You Hear Me. "Halal If You Hear Me: The BreakBeat Poets Vol. They celebrate and protect these identities, while dispelling the notion that there is only one way to be Muslim. Safia Elhillo, a Sudanese-American Muslim, felt the same way. She is the author of If They Come For Us and a recipient of a 2017 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship. We work hard to protect your security and privacy. Reviewed in the United States on June 1, 2019, Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2019.

Please try again. Halal If You Hear Me features poems by Safia Elhillo, Fatimah Asghar, Warsan Shire, Tarfia Faizullah, Angel Nafis, Beyza Ozer, and many others. Halal if You Hear Me is the third volume of The Breakbeat Poets anthology series from Haymarket Books. They are women, queer, genderqueer, nonbinary and trans. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. There is something very powerful in letting them be: in not having to explain why Shah Rukh Khan is a thing, or ripe mangoes, or women oiling their hair as a part of a family ritual. Safia Elhillo is the author of The January Children.

She is a member of the Dark Noise Collective and a Kundiman fellow.

Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) is a service we offer sellers that lets them store their products in Amazon's fulfillment centers, and we directly pack, ship, and provide customer service for these products. There was a problem loading your book clubs. I am grateful to this book for letting me into the lives and minds, however briefly, of all these people, grateful to them for sharing their thoughts, feelings, and experiences. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. There's a problem loading this menu right now. Fatimah Asghar is the creator of the Emmy-Nominated web series Brown Girls, now in development for HBO. Poets Fatimah Asghar and Safia Elhillo explore how they’ve created a community through their collection Halal If You Hear Me - an anthology published in celebration of Muslim women, queer, trans, and gender non-conforming voices. It is also eye-opening to see the range of beliefs held by Muslims. "Halal If You Hear Me: The BreakBeat Poets Vol. If you're a seller, Fulfillment by Amazon can help you grow your business. A BreakBeat Poets anthology to celebrate and canonize the words of Black women across the diaspora. Unable to add item to List. She is a member of the Dark Noise Collective and a Kundiman fellow. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. Many types of Muslims gather in “Halal If You Hear Me”—“the sisters of every color,” from the United States, Pakistan, Somalia, Egypt, Malaysia, Tunisia, the United Kingdom. Powerful, poetic meditations on motherhood, sisterhood, spirituality, solidarity, displacement/gentrification, racism, and sexism.

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In 2018, she was awarded a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in, + No Import Fees Deposit & $9.63 Shipping to Germany. Make a donation to sustain Haymarket Books! The collected poems dispel the notion that there is one correct way to be a Muslim by holding space for multiple, intersecting identities while celebrating and protecting those identities. I really enjoyed reading them, gaining a better understanding of what it's like being Muslim in a world where Muslims are often vilified. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. Poets Fatimah Asghar and Safia Elhillo explore how they’ve created a community through an anthology celebrating Muslim women, queer, trans, and gender non-conforming voices. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. I've assigned many of the poems in one of my college courses and gifted the book to a visiting Islamic religious leader.

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