The Mushroom Hunters: Neil Gaiman’s Feminist Poem About Science

26/04/2017

The Mushroom Hunters

An ode to humanity’s unheralded originators of the scientific method, read by Amanda Palmer @ Pioneer Works

The women, who did not need to run down prey,
had brains that spotted landmarks and made paths between them
left at the thorn bush and across the scree
and look down in the bole of the half-fallen tree,
because sometimes there are mushrooms.

themarginalian.org

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