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Antarctica the Woman – Stephanie Krzywonos

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Stephanie Krzywonos is a Xicana nonfiction writer. Her forthcoming debut book is Ice Folx, an intersectional memoir set in the Antarctic underworld. She has written about her experiences on “the Ice” for Sierra Magazine, Ofrenda Magazine, The Willowherb Review, Kosmos Journal, The Dark Mountain Project, The Behemoth, and The Antarctic Sun. Stephanie Krzywonos interrogates heroic narratives of Antarctica, written almost entirely by white men, that gender the land through feminine tropes. As she comes to know this expansive landscape, she invites us to consider the continent on its own terms, as a living place with agency. Antarctica always was his mistress—bury him there. —Emily Shackleton ONE OF THE STORIES we tell ourselves about Antarctica is that it is white. Seven years ago, McMurdo, the largest research station on the continent, became my home. Bundled into twenty-two articles of extreme cold weather gear, I waddled out of a US military Globemaster and into a thirty-five-million-y

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