by Jamil F. Khan | Nov 26, 2021 | Home, Relationships, Troubling Home Series
When thinking about the heart of this series, it is about the moving parts of belonging. It is not a neat, easy-to-digest package of experiences and thoughts, but a messy back and forth between what one has known and what one has chosen anew. Sometimes, despite our...
by Jamil F. Khan | Nov 19, 2021 | Relationships, Troubling Home Series
When the realisation set in that I would never be able to go back home, a sense of despair befell me. It was not that there was no house to go to, but that what I called home made no space for me. We are not equipped to think about home in ways that don’t centre...
by Jamil F. Khan | Nov 12, 2021 | Relationships, Troubling Home Series
We talk about “feeling at home” as a signifier of safety, familiarity and comfort. For some, it does mean exactly that. It is a feeling that first embraced us in childhood before our parents’ dreams for us were rudely interrupted by reality and our agency. For some,...
by Jamil F. Khan | Nov 5, 2021 | Relationships, Troubling Home Series
I have lived in Johannesburg for 9 years. When I arrived, I was greeted by family members who had already been here for 9 years. Unlike most, I had a family to come to in this scary mining town whose iridescent shimmer has made many lose their way. But what is a...