Mona: The Memoir of a Muslim Stripper (Memoir), Washington, D.C.
Mona: The Memoir of a Muslim Stripper recounts a professor’s years working in NYC gentlemen’s clubs at the time her family was trying to arrange her marriage.
“Mona is a humorous and analytic reflection about how race, class, and labor politics appear in our lives and how, against all odds, women of color wield a resilient will to reinvent themselves.”
Azra Liaqat Khan is a political science professor, author, and political organizer in Washington, DC. She has written widely about the politics of race, empire and feminism. For safety reasons, this project is written under a pseudonym.