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£30
148 x 210mm
112 pages
First edition of
Swiss Bound with red thread
Soft Cover with exposed spine
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@ Village Books
‘WE FEAR NO GOD, BUT OURSELVES’
by Hamza Ashraf
9th May - 24th May
Told through poetry, photography, film scripts, and fragments of diary entries, ‘We Fear No God, But Ourselves’, by Hamza Ashraf explores the aftermath of being outed as a queer Muslim man. It unravels shame, desire, and the performance of masculinity where sex becomes survival, worship becomes concealment, and the body remembers what the mind can’t.
Across 112 pages of raw, carefully curated work, Ashraf reconstructs the summer of 2024 where he got banned from his birth country after being outed, lost his residency status and confronts the versions of himself shaped by men who praised, fetishised, and discarded him. What remains is a narrative suspended between truth and re-enactment, intimacy and ruin, a visual and written record of a life reckoning with itself.