We’re back with another Notes from the Margins - our freestyle format where we bring the ideas, tensions, and fragments we’re still sitting with.

This one’s all about the stuff that didn’t feel done. The thoughts that followed us around. And the threads we couldn’t let go of.

First, we return to Episode 1, and our conversation about faith and queerness as Africans. We talk about what it meant to open the podcast with that episode, what we held back at the time, and how the tension between visibility and vulnerability has followed us ever since.

In our second segment, Aiwan returns to our discussion of The Crip Walk from Episode 2 on The Policing of Black Thought, and delves into new insights, learnings, and alternative storytelling around the origins of the dance, including Serena Williams' return to it during her recent Super Bowl performance with Kendrick Lamar. We explore the erasure of this history, what it reveals about disability justice and the Black community, and how we’re trying to deepen our solidarity with Black disabled siblings in our own work.

Finally, Tamanda circles back to Episode 4, What It Costs to Have a Baby, and delves deeper into the data on the availability of Black sperm donors in the UK. Drawing on an article shared by Dr Celestin Okoroji, we also dig deeper into compounding health inequalities faced by Black academic women with chronic reproductive health conditions.

This episode isn’t just a look back. It’s a season wrap. A reckoning. A moment to honour what we carried into Season 1, and what we’re carrying out of it as we head into a new era of the show.

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