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The 3rd Thing

Independent Publisher of Necessary Alternatives

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Two new beauties for two of our 2020 beauties! It was so hard to choose which lines to feature from forthcoming 3rd Things by @megans_z and @carlsirah, but we’re in love with the latest in our broadside series, lovingly printed @communityprintolympia. Very very soon we’ll be offering the chance to have them for yourself...watch this space and let your lit & letterpress friends know in the comments.
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#necessaryalternatives #the3rdthing #creativelife #indiepublishing #indiepress #letterpress

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Congrats to 2020 3rd author Megan Sandberg-Zakian on her work to launch the Middle Eastern American Writers Lab at The Lark in NYC.
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Megan is cofounder of Maia Directors, a consulting group supporting organizations & artists engaging with stories from the Middle East, North Africa & South Asia. Megan & cofounders Kareem Fahmy, Evren Odcikin & Pirronne Yousefzadeh advocate for the inclusion of MENASA artists & stories as a vital part of the American cultural conversation.
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At The Lark launch, Megan directed readings of work by Kareem Fahmy, Sanaz Toossi & Hadi Tabbal.
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#menasa #menasaart #maiadirectors #theater #directorlife #writerlife #indiepublishing #indiepress #proudpublisher #necessaryalternatives #createculture @sanaztss @haditabbal @larktheatre

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ArtsWalking in Oly this Friday? Wander off the map to Community Print! Pull your own letterpress print, pick up a broadside, stay for a 7:30 reading with 3rd founders Sarah Tavis & Anne de Marcken, and 2020 3rd author Marilyn Freeman.
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Refreshments will be available, donations will be accepted to benefit Community Print in their quest to maintain affordable letterpress classes and studio access for the fine people of Olympia and surrounding locales.
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#olympiaartswalk #letterpress #necessaryalternatives #indiepublishing #indiepress
#olympia

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Thanks a million @andnowfestival2019! Work by 3rds—and the 3rds themselves—were everywhere to be seen at @uw_bothell’s lovely campus this weekend.
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📹📷 by @cinemadivina & @vice.mama, PARIS: CHOPPED & SCREWED by @jdcalkins2001 & @annedemarcken.
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#innovativewriting #necessaryalternatives #indiepublishing

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What to wear for the end of the world: an apron...or two...it’s gonna get messy.
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Timed to coincide with the GLOBAL CLIMATE STRIKE, 3rd Thing founder/editor Anne de Marcken & 2020 Cohort author Jennifer Calkins are at &Now Festival of Innovative Writing with their durational climate crisis performance/installation, PARIS: CHOPPED & SCREWED.
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Come by UW Bothell Saturday 9/21, 9:00am-2:00pm for the performance, followed by a process talk 3:00-4:15pm.
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#climatestrike #pariswhenitsizzles #choppedandscrewed #installationart #durationalart #experimentalwriting #collaboration #indiepublishing

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In the PNW? Swing on over to UW Bothell tomorrow to catch 3rd Thing author Marilyn Freeman presenting her stunning contemplative work and talking process at &Now Festival of Innovative Writing...and pick up a letterpress broadside for her forthcoming book!
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CHRONOS/KAIROS: THE ART OF THE TIME-BASED ESSAY by Marilyn Freeman, February 2020.
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#contemplativeart #videoessay #directtheory #autotheory #the3rdthing #indiepublishing #necessaryalternatives #chronoskairos

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Broadsides of choice lines from 3rd Thing titles by 2020 cohort authors Marilyn Freeman and Jennifer Calkins. Lovingly hand letter-pressed @communityprintolympia. Pick one up at &Now Convergence @uw_bothell next week! And see Marilyn and Jennifer in action along with 3rd Thing founder/editors Anne de Marcken and Sarah Tavis. We’re excited to meet and talk and listen and be inspired!
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@cinemadivina @jdcalkins2001 @annedemarcken @vice.mama #the3rdthing #necessaryalternatives #letterpress #indiepublisher #broadside

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Carlos Sirah is a writer and performer from the Mississippi Delta and a member of The 3rd Thing’s 2020 cohort. His work encounters exile, rupture, displacement and migration. A 2017-2018 Lambda Literary Fellow, Playwrights Center Core Apprentice, and recent Millay Colony fellow, Carlos performs and develops work with a wide array of place-based, social justice and arts organizations across the country from New York to Virginia, from Arkansas to California. His 3rd Thing title, THE LIGHT BODY & THE UTTERANCES, is due out in February 2020.
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#carlossirah #the3rdthing #blackness #queerness #futurity #displacement #migration #socialjustice #necessaryalternatives #playwright #performer #warriorwriter #veteran #indiepublisher #indiepress #interdisciplinary #literary #experimentalwriting #fiction #litfic #specfic #igreads #readersofinstagram #writersofinstagram #blackwriters #queerwriters #mississippiwriters

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3rd Thing author Marilyn Freeman’s contemplative video essays constitute an ever-expanding body of work she calls CinemaDivina, made through and for a process she adapted for time-based media from the ancient prayer practice, lectio divina.
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Starting this weekend, Marilyn welcomes participants into her process in monthly contemplative sessions at St. Placid Priory, a Benedictine monastic community in Lacey, WA. Visit the St. Placid Priory Spirituality Center website to find out more about this year-long series.
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Clip from Marilyn’s CinemaDivina, “so wonderful so sad so everything”
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#marilynfreeman #cinemadivina #lectiodivina #videoessay #essayfilm #cinepoem #cinepoetry #experimentalmedia #experimentalvideo #nonfictionmedia #timebasedessay #timebasedart #contemplativevideo #contemplativeart #spirituality #chronos/kairos #indiepublisher #stplacidpriory #the3rdthing

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Workin’ on broadsides for our 2020 titles. (PS: See the typo?)
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#letterpress #indiepress #indiepublishing #the3rdthing

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You can tell director and 3rd Thing author Megan Sandberg-Zakian by her glorious smile, top center with the #houseofjoy cast. Megan’s 3rd Thing title THERE MUST BE HAPPY ENDINGS is a #necessaryalternative to theory that pretends ideas aren’t personal, tries to make you believe critical thinking isn’t a creative act, and fails to imagine, to reach or to hope for better.
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Follow 3rd for more about Megan and her work. And if you’re in the Bay Area, go see House of Joy through 9/1.
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#indiepublishing #indiepublisher #indiepress #indiebooks #the3rdthing #intersectional #interdisciplinary #womenwriters #theatermakers #theory #personalessay #criticalessay #literature #books #bookstagram #recommendedreading #reader #readersofinstagram #writersofinstagram #womendirectors #essays #theater #workingdirector #drama #stage #performance #directorslife #pocdirectors

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Sitting on the back porch with worn out flowers and fresh books, looking for inspiration as we start to design our 2020 covers.
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#indiepublishing #indiepublisher #indiepress #indiebooks #the3rdthing #necessaryalternatives #intersectional #interdisciplinary #literary #theory #essay #personalessay #criticalessay #hybridlit #literature #books #bookstagram #booklovers #igreads #recommendedreading #reader #readersofinstagram #writersofinstagram #bookdesign #distractedbybeauty

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F***ing great #marginshift reading @common_area. So proud and honored to be publishing 3rd Things Jennifer Calkins and Carlos Sirah (in excellent company with Paul Hlava Ceballos and KMA Sullivan.) Thank you @carlsirah @jdcalkins2001 @paulhlava @kmasullivan! And big thanks to MarginShift—Matt Trease & Deborah Woodard!
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#indiepublisher #indiepress #the3rdthing #performance #interdisciplinary #experimentalwriting #lyricnoir #speclit

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More about our 2020 Cohort! Jennifer Calkins is reading this Thursday at MarginShift in Seattle (with fellow 3rd @carlsirah!). In the neighborhood? Come hear Jennifer read from her 3rd Thing title, FUGITIVE ASSEMBLAGE, due out February 2020.
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Jennifer is a writer of haunting and haunted prose and poetry, she’s an evolutionary biologist who knows more about quail than just about anyone aside from the quail themselves, she’s also a lawyer looking closely at how to intervene in the climate crisis.... And then there’s what Jennifer says about herself in press materials: Jennifer Calkins lives in Seattle with a number of creatures, including two teenagers.
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More about FUGITIVE ASSEMBLAGE, the rest of Jennifer’s work, and the other 2020 3rd Things in the days to come.
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Photo credit: Sage Swanson.
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#triplethreat #seattlewriter #seattlepoet #poetryreading #poetry #interdisciplinary #scientistswhowrite #climatecrisis #ecopoetics #noir #hauntedfiction #literaryghosts #experimentalwriting #experimentalfiction #lyricprose #hybridlit #genx #lesfiguespress #indiepublisher #indiepress #the3rdthing #marginshift

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Time to introduce you to our 2020 Cohort! The first four 3rd Things:
Jennifer Calkins, "Fugitive Assemblage”
Marilyn Freeman, "Chronos/Kairos”
Megan Sandberg-Zakian, "There Must Be Happy Endings”
Carlos Sirah, "The Light Body & Utterances”
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We invite you to follow along as we bring these beauties into book form. Four necessary alternatives to our practiced ways of seeing, imagining, and being in the world. A lyric noir. An embodied theorization of time-based essay. A personal interrogation of optimism and theatre-making. A tête-bêche of speculative performance prose.
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We'll be posting about our authors, their projects, and what they're up to. Follow @the3rdthingpress on Instagram and Facebook. Visit our website, the3rdthing.press (link in bio).
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#indiepublishing #indiepublisher #indiepress #indiebooks #the3rdthing #necessaryalternatives #intersectional #interdisciplinary #literary #experimentalwriting #noir #fiction #theory #essay #lyricprose #litfic #literature #books #bookstagram #booklovers #igreads #recommendedreading #reader #readersofinstagram #writersofinstagram

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“If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.”
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Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon.
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#tonimorrison #songofsolomon #liberationliterature #praise

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“In this here place, we flesh; flesh that weeps, laughs; flesh that dances on bare feet in grass. Love it. Love it hard.”
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Beloved was the first book I read that entered my whole body instead of just my brain. When I’d read the last page, I turned back to the first and started over again. Thank you, Toni Morrison.
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#tonimorrison #beloved

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“I spoke with my mother once by telephone, but I do not know where she lives or when I will be able to see her. I haven’t spoken to anyone else about how I will get to see her.”
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Declaration of CAHH, age 8 ~
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#endfamilyseparation #lendyourvoice #indiepublisher
#youthlaw

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“I believe it doesn't do yourself any good to hate.”
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Ruby Bridges .
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#endfamilyseparation #rubybridges #lendyourvoice #indiepublisher

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“Whenever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must—at that moment—become the center of the universe.”
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Elie Wiesel .
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#endfamilyseparation #eliewiesel #lendyourvoice #indiepublisher

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“When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant.”
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Elie Wiesel .
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#giveshelter #asylum #lendyourvoice #listen #indiepublisher

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“Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere.”
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Elie Wiesel .
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#silenceequalsdeath #silenceequalscompliance #speakup #endfamilydetention #indiepublisher

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“I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must take sides.”
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Elie Wiesel .
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#silenceequalsdeath #silenceequalscompliance #speakup #endfamilydetention #indiepublisher #endsuffering

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“There can be no peace without justice and respect for human rights.”
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Irene Khan.
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#endfamilyseparation #nocages #indiepublisher

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“The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.”
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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#endfamilyseparation #lendyourvoice #pressforchange #indiepublisher

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“There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.”
Arundhati Roy __________
#endfamilyseparation #raiseyourvoice #familiesbelongtogether

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What to say? What words? Listen to the children. Use our voices to amplify theirs.
#endchilddetention #endchilddetentioncenters #stopseparatingfamilies #the3rdthing

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“...ethics has to become more than an individual project of self-renewal, since lives are renewed in the company of others.”
- Judith Butler -
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3rd Thing author @carlsirah with 3rds @vice.mama & @opensecretwithexitwounds. Not pictured (but picturing) @annedemarcken.
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Special thanks to @nikkimcclure & @jayt_scott for hosting our work.
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#judithbutler #the3rdthing #createculture #collectiveliberation #indiepublisher #indiepress #feministpress #georgeyancy

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Here are the tools with which we practice our survival. We envision "The 3rd Thing" as an engine in creating culture—the kind of culture we think the world needs right now, which isn't compromise or competition, but a 3rd thing that is reached through radical imagination, intimacy, and vulnerability.
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Celebrating INTERdependence EVERY day

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Reinventing the office...or maybe reinventing the lawn?
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#creatingculture #summertime #indiepublisher #indiewriter #smallpress #womeneditors

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#summertomatoes #indiepublisher #grow #the3rdthing #growyourown #growyourself #growyourcommunity #growyourmind #growyourspirit #growgrowgrow

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