no. 27 Editorial
Moodboard

ISSN · 2183-5527

Visual Essay

Avenida Marginal

Avenida Marginal

Susana Ramalho

Mid-1990s. In class 5C at Padre Franklin Middle School, ownership is up for debate. The children from Praia da Vieira, where there were no grades beyond elementary school, had been assigned to classes alongside those from the …

Avenida Marginal

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Avenida Marginal

Susana Ramalho

Mid-1990s.

In class 5C at Padre Franklin Middle School, ownership is up for debate. The children from Praia da Vieira, where there were no grades beyond elementary school, had been assigned to classes alongside those from the village of Vieira de Leiria, where the school is located. The beach belongs to the village, no, the village belongs to the beach, we argue.

It did not take us long to realise that the people of Vieira and Praia are connected by far more than the 3.5 kilometres that separate them in a straight line. That natural disasters care little for formalities, whether they arrive through the seafront or the National Forest. The wreck of the Salsinha in 1907 (13 fishermen lost their lives), the devastating sea surge of 1958, the wildfires, especially the one that burned 86% of the Leiria Pine Forest in 2017. Hurricane Leslie in 2018. Storm Kristin in 2026.

We tend to believe that the place where we live belongs to us, that we hold some kind of unquestioned ownership over it. That the other, the stranger, the newcomer, comes to dispossess us. Our land is ours, and yet it is not.

Avenida Marginal is a tribute to Praia da Vieira and Vieira de Leiria. To those who live on the margins, in a sense that extends far beyond geography. To those who were born here and never left, to those who were born here and moved away, to those who left and later returned, and to those who were not born here, but came to live here (Aline, Ana, Euclides, Gisele, Monique, Robson, thank you for everything).

To the girls and boys of class 5C at Padre Franklin Middle School. To my hometown and its people, meaning all those who wish to make this place their home.

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