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Queen Beauty.

For fierce non-binary queen and Unicorn: The Memoir of a Muslim Drag Queen author Amrou Al-Kadhi, their greatest strength is their vulnerability. Navigating through the world with their truth out loud, their identity remains a key player in where they see their light shines brightest – something they hope they inspire in others.

“I really did want to show how important it is to have an identity, not that everyone needs to have a firm identity, but like, I can almost guarantee that any person who hates identity politics, if their identity was really attacked, they would have very similar anxieties to what I had,” Amrou explains. “If you’re not being allowed to, let’s say exist within your family’s cultural identity or within your sexuality’s cultural identity, your gender’s cultural identity, racial identity, you can’t actually figure out how to

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