Why are we concerned about margins? Marginality? And perhaps marginalisation? Perhaps because some of us are more privileged than others on the axes of gender, race, ethnicity, minority status, rurality, class, language, age, social identity and physical ability. Advantaged or disadvantaged positions influence access to resources and opportunities, blocking or enabling the propensity to improve choices, opportunities and rights. This unequal access creates vulnerability and r

Dear Readers, This edition of PYSSUM Literaria features a wonderful and generous collection of art and ideas, and my heartfelt thanks go out to every contributor who has lent this issue their thought and imagination. Our theme this time is 'Margins' — a word that at first glance suggests only edges and empty space, but which, on closer look, holds so much more. The literature and art you'll find in these pages doesn't just describe margins from a distance — it inhabits them,

Dear Reader, I would like to extend my heartfelt gratitude to our contributors, and well-wishers who embraced the previous issue of PYSSUM Literaria with much warmth and encouragement. Your engagement continues to inspire our journey as we strive to create a meaningful space for creative expression, dialogue, and reflection through literature and the arts. We are grateful to each of our contributors who responded to our theme ‘Fractured Identities.’ In a world shaped by shift

Who am I? This is a fundamental question that we wrestle with throughout our lives. Across history, theologians, philosophers, poets, scientists, and songwriters have offered pathways toward understanding, each illuminating a facet of this enduring inquiry. Human uniqueness has been explained through genetics and divine spark, through mathematical probability and cosmology, through evolutionary biology and the Big Bang Theory, and through every major spiritual tradition known