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Now entering its fifteenth year, the UO Common Reading program cultivates campus-wide engagement and programming around a shared book that is selected for its capacity to generate cross-cultural understanding, broaden perspectives, and create dialogue between students, faculty, and staff.  The selection for the 2024-2025 academic year is Hijab Butch Bluesby Lamya H., a queer coming-of-age memoir that addresses intersectional themes of race, sexuality, gender, class and faith through the author鈥檚 experience as nonbinary, queer, Muslim immigrant.

My Heart May Be Satisfied was created as a visual response to Lamya鈥檚 vulnerable and profoundly empowering storytelling and brings together the work of four artists: Diana Al-Hadid, Jamil Hellu, Baseera Khan, and Saba Taj. All four are first- or second-generation immigrants to the United States whose bodies of work address many of the themes present in Hijab Butch Blues, such as gender identity and sexuality, navigating challenges of immigration and perceptions of 鈥極therness鈥�, combating harmful stereotypes, reconciling faith, or lack of, and identity, and creating, uplifting, and maintaining community.