I am worthy of awe

Ice Queen

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No. 38 • July 2025

Leading the way through See All This #38 are six divine figures – goddesses from various eras and cultures. Stephanie Krzywonos is a non-fiction writer who has been living in Antarctica for a total of almost three years. Drawing from her experience of the eerie cold nights ‘on the ice’ and recollections of the mysterious continent by writers and travellers, in her text she paints a vivid picture of the Goddess Antarctica.

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‘Her ocean is a massive carbon sink. Her ice acts like a shield, reflecting sunlight and heat back into outer space. Her circular current pumps other ocean currents like a heart, regulating our weather and climatic systems. Antarctica-as-she, a microcosm of Earth-as-she, has the power to shake us out of complacency, with this important twist: Antarctica is not your mother. She’s neither your grandmother nor your sister. She is complex and refuses to be reduced to a binary role: a Madonna or a whore. She owes you nothing, not even a smile. Instead, she demands reciprocity.’

– From: Stephanie Krzywonos, ‘Antarctica the Woman’, Emergence Magazine, 2023

Fig 1. Lucy Tasseor Tutsweetok, Famille, c. 1980, Basalte (pierre), 31.2 cm × 29.4 cm ×16.2 cm | © Galerie Art Inuit Brousseau, courtesy of the artist

Read about the other 5 goddesses in See All This #38. Order your copy here.