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Sep 24, 2019 · Amrou Al-Khadhi writes a remarkably poignant, profoundly moving and unflinching memoir of his challenging life coming from an Iraqi Muslim conservative family to become Glamrou, an exuberant, confident, acerbic, gay drag queen, saying all the things that Amrou himself cannot.
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Aug 25, 2020 · Instead Amrou Al-Kahdi tells of a childhood in a strict Iraqi household, where hints of his burgeoning sexuality were systematically squashed and denied existence.
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Aug 25, 2020 · Frontperson Glamrou La Denim – real name Amrou Al-Kadhi – has just released a book, Life As a Unicorn, out on paperback now, in which they detail everything that happened beforehand. And I...
It is in such hilarious and outrageous yet pithily insightful lines that Amrou Al-Kadhi’s fabulous book Unicorn: The Memoir of a Muslim Drag Queen makes its case for being that rare mix of funny, relatable and honest which is at the core of most good autobiographical writing.
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May 17, 2022 · A heart-breaking and hilarious memoir about the author’s fight to be true to themself Amrou knew they were gay when, aged ten, they first laid.
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Jul 23, 2020 · Wildly funny yet repeatedly heartbreaking, Life as a Unicorn is the astonishing tale of how a devout Muslim child became a scathingly funny drag queen and began to see both Islam and the world with fresh eyes. Winner of the Polari First Book Prize 2020. Winner of a Somerset Maugham Award.
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From a god-fearing Muslim boy enraptured with their mother, to a vocal, queer drag queen estranged from their family, this is a heart-breaking and hilarious memoir about the author’s fight to be true to themself. ‘It should be read far and wide’ Ian McKellen. My name is Amrou Al-Kadhi – by day.
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