Ambition Has Small Wrists and Pees in the Bushes: Girls in Icy Fjords and Rethinking Polymathism
Somewhere on the Pacific Ocean, on our last day in the wilderness We were curving gently on the surface of the blue lagoon, grinning at each other, before Kim nodded and I flipped over into the ice-filled water. The cold first came as a faint pressure over my drysuit, then concentrated into my exposed face and hands as I undid my splash skirt from the kayak and floundered my way up to the surface. On the shore, tiny figures cheered me on – the eight other girls who had been s
