In The Margins

Literary collective centered in transnational solidarity for global liberation movements. Catch us bi-monthly on IG live.

curated by: @sarcasma3 and @rubafenty

[MoTaz @motazazaiza9]

I believe he was peacefully making a cup of tea before the Israeli warplanes bombed the house.
Israel must be proud about their speed to kill, they can do it before the cup of tea is ready, especially if the target is Palestinians.
I don’t want to imagine, I don’t want to photograph more of this
Please take action to end this before the next cup of tea ! (you know what I mean)

[Rami Jarrah @RamiJarrah]

The moment Aljazeera Journalist Momen Al-Sharafi breaks the news that his entire family of 21 members were just killed in an Israeli Airstrike in #Gaza.

The look he gives as he is no longer able to talk, is heartbreaking.

[Anna Veprinska @splitendedpoem]

A most beautiful thing: an artist in France fills holes in sidewalks with mosaics. He is known as the "paving surgeon" and has been "treating the wounds of urban streets since 2016."

[Ocean Vuong bot @oceanvbot]

What do we mean when we say survivor? Maybe a survivor is nothing but the last one to come home, the final monarch that lands on a branch already weighted with ghosts.

[Abhilipsa Sahoo @_abelisaurus_]

ocean vuong on metaphor via instagram stories 💮

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Your next ITM discussion is HERE!

We are discussing the HEADSTRONG HISTORIAN by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. This Saturday Oct 31st on IG Live (link in bio) 👻

Read the short story here: https://t.co/zHCYPTt2vA

[The Race to Equality Project @R2EProject]

Tune in this Saturday wherever you are in the world!

Get an insight of the sentiments we'll be discussing here:

‘Where Do You Come From’ by Meena Alexander - https://t.co/HXMkxaADmF

Meeting ID: 797 3363 4458
Passcode: R2ExITM

[SAVE A SEAT FOR ME (Simon & Schuster, 2026) @NewBlackMan]

Podcasts, book groups, and individuals are looking to Octavia Butler’s books not just for comfort but for answers. https://t.co/0zcxfysTZ7 via @slate

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Lowkey profound poetry inspired by technical difficulties

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Y’all remember Kimberlé Crenshaw’s work (which we love) from the great discussion we had about legality & supremacism during our reading of Capers’ Afrofuturism & policing in 2040 paper (which we didnt love 😬).

What do y’all think bout this new development?

[Kimberlé Crenshaw @sandylocks]

So woke up to the news that CRT is banned as the greatest threat to Western Civilization. This is McCarthyism 101. I've often wondered what our allies would do when they came for us. Now we'll see.

https://t.co/AWG7mDXZEk

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“.. the potential seductiveness of language is dangerous... but for me there is another layer of distrust— historical distrust, if you will. After all, this was a language that the European forced upon the African in the New World.”

M. NourbeSe Philip, ‘Interview with a Empire’

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happening TODAYYY!!

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as we all know, every fire movement has a 🥰manifesto🥰

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Our first theme guided by the Black Lives Matter movement was a look at Afrofuturism as a literary genre, legal framework and spiritual possibility.

We discussed Octavia Butler's "Book of Martha" & Bennet Capers' NYU Law Review paper (pub. 2019)

IGTV: https://t.co/fdBC7IqDNh

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4. Afford people an opportunity for vulnerability. We want to see you, so let us. We want to hear you, so let us. Visibility is important. Sharing is important. Vulnerability can guide us all to a powerful place; a radical place.

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Our core values help hold this space and ensure its continuity and existence. Thanks to the work of brilliant Black & Brown minds, we have inherited a beautiful canon of literature and theory.

But without integrity and love, we cannot have praxis.

THREAD of our core values:

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3. Provide a space of release: ensuring the existence of a discussion-based collective centered in justice, healing and compassion where agents of the revolution can see their voices reflected in a canon that is in opposition to all cis white hegemonic powers.

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In the Margins was meant to be an interactive space where we can all come together and discuss how a piece might make us feel, what thoughts it spurs within us or what we can take away from those that have both come before us and live among us now.