In de kantlijn. Het meisje dat te snel groot werd is the long-awaited follow-up to Kruimeldief by Hind Eljadid and Fatima-Zahra Eljadid. At the heart of this graphic novel is an unnamed girl growing up in a deprived neighbourhood of Antwerp at the turn of the century. Poverty, abuse, violence, mistreatment, drugs: it is a life on the margins. Until one event changes everything. A raw coming-of-age story.

“You’re probably wondering why I’m telling you all this. Who needs this? Who ever asked for my story? Well, I’m telling this for every girl who never learnt to say no. Or who did learn to say no but wasn’t heard. For every girl who became invisible under the fists of a physically stronger being, under the knuckles of so-called protection. My story begins here.”

In de kantlijn will be published by EPO. On September 9, Hind and Fatima-Zahra present this new book at De Roma.

Hind Eljadid is a (spoken) word artist and writer from Antwerp. She has won several awards for her performative word art and made her debut with Kruimeldief (EPO, 2021). In 2025, she was awarded the Human Rights Prize by the Belgian League for Human Rights.

Fatima-Zahra Eljadid is an illustrator, painter and stop-motion animator. Since 2020, she has been an editorial member of the Stripgids Vlaanderen and a socio-cultural worker at VOEM.