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Description
Yassmin's Story speaks with insight, humour, heart and urgency about belonging, unbelonging, and all the complex places in between. Maxine Beneba Clarke, Yassmin Abdel-Magied is a young Muslim dynamo offering a bracing breath of fresh air - and hope. At 21, Yassmin found herself working on a remote oil and gas rig: she was the only woman. With her hijab quickly christened a 'tea cosy', there could be no more unlikely place for Yassmin to want to be. This is the story of how she got there, where she is going, and how she wants the world to change. It is a story about being a third culture kid; growing up migrant and Muslim in Australia post 9/11; navigating the usual teenage dramas, on top of adjusting to now being seen as the face of the 'enemy'. Yassmin reflects on the fluidity and responsibility of cultural identity and appropriation, on bridging cultures, about the strength of women and learning to lead. Yassmin's Story challenges who we are as a society, and asks you to join the journey to a better place. A big bold book with a wicked sense of humour that tells the story of an engineer, a leader and an inspiration to all of us. Book jacket.
