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Soaliha Iqbal

Hello and welcome to Missing Perspectives' brand new monthly book club called "Soaliha's Shelf" where I'll be curating, recommending and reviewing the best books of 2025 by underrepresented authors so you can diversify your TBR list!
Kate Fitz-Gibbon's book, Our National Crisis: Violence Against Women and Children, highlights the alarming reality of domestic violence in Australia.
"Objectivity has always been a myth, and it has always been used against those who are being oppressed. Your voices are always going to be seen as irrational."
"The truth is, the hardest part wasn’t leaving out any specific meals — it was leaving out my family, who I suddenly was avoiding meals with and rejecting the care of." 
"As a Muslim woman, knowing standing by my politics is a threat to inclusion is exhausting," writes Soaliha Iqbal.

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