![]() ![]() And there’s a living hope to the piece found in direct action, in defiance of science that has been corrupted by money, and in communities of people coming together to do good work. ![]() It’s seemingly futile work, and yet it’s also real, tangible, and just what Cora wants, and Tabing does wonderful work in revealing Cora’s journey as a scientist, as an activist, and as a person suffering something that mirrors the damage that’s been done to the planet. Gyre is a community living on the Great Pacific garbage patch, seeking to tackle pollution head on. When her project is stalled by capitalist bureaucracy, though, and her own deteriorating health – a result of eating fish polluted with microplastics – forces her to confront her own mortality, she finds hope in an unexpected place. ![]() It starts strongly with Nadine Aurora Tabing’s “ The Bright in the Gyre”, which features Cora as a scientist working on a project to create special mushrooms that can break down plastic pollution and recycle it into food. ![]() R eckoning released a new issue in January, which means a whole new year’s worth of non-fiction, poetry, and stories. ![]()
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