Creating Spaces for Complex Identities
Welcome to In-Between Lines. We empower individuals with complex identities to celebrate themselves in their fullness.
Through a combination of online content and in-person events, we are a community exploring identity on our own terms.
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Our Identities
In-Between Lines is a hub for multiple identities. What connects them is their complexity: belonging to multiple ethnicities, families, and cultures. Having these identities grants us access to various spaces or worlds. This can give us a sense of freedom or insight, but sometimes has the accompanying experience of not feeling enough or accepted in our wholeness.
Below is a non-exhaustive list of identities that has this In-Between Lines feeling, but anyone who feels the In-Between Lines feeling is welcome!
Culture
- Migrants,
- Children of migrants
- Refugees
- Third-culture kids
Ethnicity
- Mixed-heritage
- Multiheritage
- Mixed
- Biracial/multiracial
Family
- Care-experience
- Adoptees
- Care-leavers
- Foster care alumni
Our Past Exhibitions
Check out what previous attendees and partners have to say about us!
University of Exeter
The insight, depth and generosity of the facilitators provided a rare opportunity to bring people together and explore personal experiences and nuances of identity in an impactful and thought-provoking way.
Attendees to the exhibition commented on the facilitators’ open and innovative approach, which encouraged people to reflect on the unique aspects of their identity as well as shared experiences through the reflections of others.
Rae Preston
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Advisor
University of Sussex
The event I attended was well-organised, with a panel presenting a wide range of experiences about being mixed-raceness and mixed-raceness in an adoptive family and within a transracial adoptive family.
The discussions were insightful and powerful. The experiences we heard about greatly impacted my own children, with whom I took to the event and myself. I learned a great deal about approaching sensitive ways to approach this topic in my work and the appropriate language to use in this space. The panel was willing to talk openly with goodwill.
Tam Cane
Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Social work