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Unbecoming by Seema Yasmin
Dec. 18th, 2024 06:37 pmUnbecoming by Seema Yasmin was awesome! Two Muslim girls decide to write The Texas Teen's Guide to Safe Abortion. Then, one of them discovers that she's pregnant. Even with all this information, it's going to be a tough road getting the illegal pills she needs.
When the author started working on this book, it was speculative fiction, but the end of the US constitutional right to abortion in 2022 suddenly made this story very real.
There's also a chapter about something I hadn't heard of before: the forced sterilisation in India during the Emergency (1975-1977).
Layla is an Indian American hijabi girl with a dissociative disorder. Noor is a Palestinian American pansexual girl in an f/f relationship. Adam, Layla's little brother, has Down syndrome.
When the author started working on this book, it was speculative fiction, but the end of the US constitutional right to abortion in 2022 suddenly made this story very real.
There's also a chapter about something I hadn't heard of before: the forced sterilisation in India during the Emergency (1975-1977).
Layla is an Indian American hijabi girl with a dissociative disorder. Noor is a Palestinian American pansexual girl in an f/f relationship. Adam, Layla's little brother, has Down syndrome.
