
Making Amends
Celebrating 430 days of THIRDSPACE.
THIRD SPACE is a weekly cultural critique by Marley Dias, author, activist, and Harvard sociology student.
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Celebrating 430 days of THIRDSPACE.
Dear Reader,

Returning to the THIRD SPACE.

What I learned from a summer spent with Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, the archive, and the art of remembering.

A Meditation in Five Pantoums

"I am the source of my joy and infinite possibilities." – Polar Bears' affirmation. P olar Bears of Martha's Vineyard's Inkwell Beach perform their early-morning water ritual, as captured in Michael Johnson's iconic 2010 photograph "Joy." At 7:30 a.m., a circle of elders and children gathers in the gentle surf of Inkwell Beach, their arms lifted toward the sky in an exuberant salute to the new…

How censorship, cowardice, capitalism, and colonial nostalgia are schooling us all

On alt-Black girlhood, moshing as ritual, and the sound that raised me.

Two poems tracing the rhythm of memory across oceans

On Haile Selassie, Bob Marley, and the Dream of Return”