Marley E. Dias | THIRD SPACE

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THE COST OF COOL
On Do the Right Thing, THIRD SPACES, shade equity, and why Black communities are still fighting for air—literally and politically.
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THE MUSEUM WAS NEVER NEUTRAL
Even in Ruin, We Bloom.
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Beyoncé is the Wiz
An essay on spectacle, silver boots, and the rituals we keep paying for.
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Blood in The Ledger: From Slave Markets to Stock Portfolios
From slavery-backed banks to finance-bound seniors, the pipeline is still soaked in power and profit.
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From Legacy to Liability: The Crisis of Capitalist Imitation Among Black Women in Power
How Billionaire Dreams Are Betraying Black Feminist Legacies
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The White Woman and I
An Essay About the White Women Who Would’ve Let Me Burn (hopefully not my girlies <3)
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NEW MASTERS, OLD GHOSTS
Kerry James Marshall’s Souvenir I, the Civil Rights afterlife, and the burden of telling Black stories out loud.
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BLACK AMERICANA——Stylish and Sublime
Guest post by 6th National Youth Poet Laureate Alyssa Gaines. What The Met theme encourages us to consider about African-Americanness, the South, and…
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Lyssie Gaines <3 Quiet Parts
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All Power to the Watched
A Living History of Surveillance, Protest, and Black Countersight
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Heavy is The Inheritance
How Black families turn memory, movement, and Mondays into masterpieces.
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Pete Hegseth Is All of Us If We Were Loud, Wrong, and on TV
Proof that if you yell loud enough on cable, someone will give you the nuclear codes.
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To Boldly Go (On an 11-Minute Joyride): Blue Origin’s All-Women Space Spectacle
Launch Party for the End Times!
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