Khamr: The Making of a Waterslams

Kharme: The Making of a Waterslams interrogates the messy intersections between Islam, Colouredness, queerness and the precarity of middle-classness. Arabic for intoxicants or alcohol, Khamr centres the authors upbringing as a Muslim living in an alcoholic home. Living a life characterized by nearly everything Islam deems forbidden, Jamil F. Khan tells of the shame attached to cape Towns deviant, diluted Muslims, pejoratively referred to as Waterslamse.

Khamr is both a cautionary tale and a critique of the racialised economic systems that set marginalized people up to fail.

Paperback. English. Jacana. 2020. Good Condition.