Unashamed: Musings of a Fat, Black Muslim Audiobook (Free)

A searingly honest memoir of one young woman’s trip toward self-acceptance as she involves find her body as a symbol of rebellion and hope and selects to live her existence unapologetically.

Since she was little, Leah Vernon was told what things to believe and how to act. There wasn’t any area for imperfection. Great Muslim girls listened a lot more than they spoke. They didn’t have a missing dad or a mom with mental illness. They didn’t have fat body or grow up wishing they may be just like the about Unashamed: Musings of the Fat, Black Muslim white people they noticed on TV. They didn’t have husbands who abused and cheated with them. They certainly didn’t possess key abortions. In Unashamed, Vernon takes to job the misconception of the perfect Muslim woman with frank dispatches on her love-hate romantic relationship with her hijab and her trust, race, excess weight, mental illness, home violence, sexuality, the millennial globe of dating, and the process of getting her voice.

She opens up about her tumultuous adolescence living in the poverty series with her fiercely loving but troubled mom, her deadbeat father, and her siblings, as well as the violent dissolution of her 10-year marriage. Tired of the constant policing of her clothes in the name of Islam and Traditional western beauty requirements, Vernon reflects on her behalf encounters with hustling paycheck to paycheck, body-shaming, and redefining what this means to be always a “good” Muslim.

Irreverent, vibrant, and funny, Unashamed gives anyone who is marginalized permission to live unapologetic, self-confident lives.