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A Third Space

Greetings, Medium friends! I wanted to share a post I have just published on Substack, which I will begin working as my second platform this month. I will still be on Medium, of course, but please check out that work if you are interested once I post it. I will share the news once I have posted my first contribution.

My intention is to use this space to discuss different perspectives that exist outside the dichotomy of “us and them” in this current chaos cycle. “Third space,” a concept popularized by the postcolonialist scholar, Homi Bhabha, refers to the spaces that exist in the intersections of identity, where persons’ intersectionalities are constantly negotiated. It is not a space that is fixed, but rather a dynamic space that is constantly evolving and never clearly defined or “completed.”

Why a Third Space?

The reason why I decided to begin this work is that, having experienced life on three different continents, and worked with and among diverse populations, I have determined that what we collectively value, seek, struggle with, and fight over, is our sense of identity. The search for self is interminable, exhausting, and never ending because it is ultimately unattainable. Yet, here we are.