The Future Emerges Between Worlds

5 Aug 2026 · 1 min

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Tracey Follows reflects on being an "inbetweener" from the Midlands, neither fully north nor south. She explores how occupying in-between spaces, like the superhero archetype, gives you multiple perspectives that outsiders naturally possess.

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thing. I don't mind being an outsider, but I think I'm actually an inbetweener. I think that's really what I am. I'm an inbetweener. I've decided I'm an inbetweener, partly because the Inbetweener was always like my favourite, like, superhero character type thing. But also, I come from the Midlands, so it's not north and it's not south. So I think I actually grew up being an inbetweener and appreciating that it's neither— it's not that it's neither one thing or another, it's just that there's a place that you can occupy, which is in between, which is very interesting, which again will give you one perspective and then another perspective.