OluTimehin Adegbeye

Othering correspondent

Mission

I write about what divides us, in order to discover what unites us.

Now

For the next few months, I will be exploring death, touch, voice, community and place as shared, yet differentiated, human experiences.

Stories

Biography

Excerpt from passport - a visual showing a mountain landscape with birds flying above it

Borders don’t just keep people out. They define their worth

The leader of Water Station covering one of the water stations with wood and a rock to safeguard the bottles of water.

Tales from the border: rewriting the narrative of the anonymous migrant

A photograph of two male hands putting together a stack of books.

Author Jason De Léon on deadly migration along the US-Mexican border

Photograph showing human remains in the form of black and white ash

Death is a good way to gauge who we think deserves to live

Illustration of a white cone over a purple background. Around it, little human-like figures are busy transporting objects of different shapes and sizes.

Callout: Join ‘The Other Shelf’, our first book club

Collage of photographic portraits, underneath every one a pantone code is written out in text. The background for each portrait is tinted with a color tone identical to a sample of 11 x 11 pixels taken from the nose of the subject and matched with the industrial pallet Pantone®. In the collage everyone has a different pantone code, and there is a large variety of ethnicities.

The stick figure on the door: unconscious ways we exclude each other

Screenshot of video with a women speaking to the camera.

Meet our Othering correspondent, OluTimehin Adegbeye

Hand drawn illustration of a womans face with large earrings, on a orange background.

Why I’m joining as the Othering correspondent