This paper explores the role of writing as a grounding, stabilising and identity-fixing practice in the fluidity and ambiguity of third space. While third space might imply that we may not feel we belong neither ‘here’ nor ‘there’, writing gives us the means and the freedom to negotiate who we are outside of traditional academic conventions and pressures. In the third space, we can choose what kind of writers we want to be and the type of writing we want to do. In the process, we can start to redraw the boundaries of what academic writing can be or even should be.
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