![]() ![]() ![]() I knew this offering would be graceful in language, meticulous in form, and rich in narrative. ![]() Like all devoted fans of contemporary greats, I longed for whatever Fatimah would send out into the world - she ain’t no half-steppin’ GOAT. I have been patiently waiting ever since. More than two years ago when “Got Game” dropped, our former editor-in-chief Kamala interviewed Fatimah, and I learned about this novel-in-progress. Lines of her poems have held me on my hardest days and, some days, I rewatch her short creative work (like Brown Girls and her short film, “Got Game”) and find myself cackling and talking back to my screen. As a younger queer not-yet-writer in the mid-’10s, I stumbled across her spoken word on YouTube after meeting some of her homies at Furious Flower. I have been a fan of Fatimah’s for a while. If this review (and your subsequent reading) of When We Were Sisters will be your introduction to Fatimah Asghar’s work - welcome, fam. A queer Muslim poet, filmmaker, and creator of Brown Girls, Fatimah Asghar is a force in whatever she does. “Gone” is where Fatimah Asghar’s When We Were Sisters invites us to join orphans Kausar, Aisha, and Noreen in their journey of grief, growing up, and what comes after the loss of all you knew to be true and good. Once upon a time their father was gone.” - Fatimah Asghar, When We Were Sisters (2022), p. Once upon a time, they lived in a castle, up high. Once upon a time, there were three sisters. The Autostraddle Encyclopedia of Lesbian Cinema.LGBTQ Television Guide: What To Watch Now. ![]()
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