This is Timehin, your Othering Correspondent for the past 18 months.
When I accepted this role, the possibility I was most intrigued by and excited for was the chance to be in conversation with our members. With each edition of The Other Shelf (the book club I started), member contributions, and the many delightful (or even embittered!) responses to my newsletter, I received fresh inspiration, new perspectives, and a sense of community that I hope to be able to keep even after 1 January.
This is why, taking a cue from members and my colleagues, I’ve set up a newsletter where I hope to maintain not only the momentum but also the spirit of my work here at The Correspondent.
If you’d like to keep up with my ideas, then please sign up to Power at the Margins in anticipation of more of the thinking, raging and loving that I’ve been able to do alongside you since October last year.
Working for The Correspondent was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity; a job so perfect it never occurred to me to dream it up for myself. It gave me the opportunity to write about the complexities of the human experience in my own way, and more importantly, as myself.
I got the chance to start conversations about our shared humanity in a world where knowledge produced by people like me is too easily maligned or disregarded. And I got to do so as part of a team of brave and brilliant people, all of us buoyed up by the faith (and money!) of tens of thousands of members who believed in our mission of foundational, solution-oriented, transformative unbreaking news.
I don’t take that for granted. And I’ve realised that neither do you, from reading the outpouring of support since the announcement.
So I thank you, truly, for the past 18 months, and I hope you’ll sign up to my new newsletter.
In my outgoing statement I reflect on the work we've done together in the last year and a bit, and go more in-depth about how I plan to continue my work exposing the patterns that shape our realities.
Read: The other side of Othering is belonging
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