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In this week’s featured story, Nigerian writer Bayo Akomolafe brings us face-to-face with our own unresolved ancestry. Drawing on advances in DNA testing, Bayo reflects on how we are all inescapably entwined with each other and nature. Art by @jiazilla. https://t.co/PEfBdPt8tX
Happy Halloween from all of us at Emergence Magazine! On this spOOky day, we’d like to share with you the “Great Sea Serpent of Casco Bay,” an essay by Emergence staff writer Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder that will leave you asking: are monsters REAL? https://t.co/x7RoxWs4iy
“Myths allow fear to be a gateway to awe.” After reading numerous historical accounts of sea serpent sightings off the coast of Maine, writer @ChelseaScudder considers our relationship to fear and how #monsters could function in a modern #mythology. https://t.co/KrVHp7YLQh
“Creation cannot exist without destruction. We cannot have awe without fear, wonder without terror.” After reading numerous accounts of sea serpent sightings, writer @ChelseaScudder considers how #monsters could function in a modern #mythology. https://t.co/KrVHp7YLQh
“The existence of sea monsters in myth acknowledges the unknowable will of the wild—a reminder of a relationship with a wider, untamed world.” —Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder
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UNLEASHED: our second issue, on WILDNESS, exploring our most primal fears, our urge toward order and control, and the need to remember and listen to the wild within the world and within ourselves. Go #wild. https://t.co/gEtUq0YEUo
“How does it feel to add oneself, after a summer’s solitude, to this slowly gathering sky-torrent? By what landmarks do these aggregate dragons navigate?” David Abram on #cranes and their annual migrations https://t.co/NWFb3P1uud…/creaturely-migrations-brea…/ Art by Glen Rabena