![]() ![]() Nostalgia and trauma are inextricably tangled as, on the one hand, she recalls exuberant family reunions, or mornings spent singing and baking with her mother and sisters in their one-bedroom house while her overbearing father was away at work and on the other, rampant sexism, femicides, and fearing for her life as an Ahmadiyya Muslim in a country where her community was, and still is, persecuted by the Sunni majority.Īt thirteen, the author moves to Canada with her family-and mysteriously, her first cousin Nasir, who is ten years older than she is. The author starts by recounting her childhood in a working-class neighbourhood in Lahore, Pakistan. ![]() It is a tale of resistance in the face of oppression in one’s homeland, of exile and resilience-but beyond that, it is a one-of-a-kind book that celebrates queer Muslim identities around the world. We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir is the story of Samra Habib, a Toronto-based writer, photographer, and activist. Content warning: sexism, racism, Islamophobia, child abuse ![]()
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