THANATAPATHY is a Baltimore-based limited literary & media magazine for the purpose of the editor's capstone project for the Chesapeake Bay Trust's Chesapeake Conservation and Climate Corps. This website will be archived after Karim's time in the corps program following her August 2026 graduation and will remain online for as long as able to for continued review.

THANATAPATHY is a play on the Greek God of Death Thanatos and the word "Apathy". Together, they form, "Thanatapathy".

The site is run, edited, and organized by Coraline Ismael Karim (she/her/hers), the Family Biking Coordinator at Bikemore. She is an Indo-Persian Ecuadorian transgender woman writer based here in Baltimore City. Her writing stems froms violence, trauma, oppression, and lived experience turned art. She has been published in BULL Magazine, University of Tampa's Talon Magazine, has received scholarships for her short stories "Step Into Oblivion (2019)" and "End All, Be All" from the University of South Florida, and has self-published her short story, "Dancing Naked On The Sun", and more.

In 2018, Karim's older brother Josue Vallejo was hit and killed in a motorcycle-car crash while riding on the highway system in Tampa, FL. Due to no other modes of reliable transportation and Vallejo's poverty, he was forced to purchase a motorcycle to get to work. On his first day for his new job, Vallejo crashed into the median of the highway after allegedly losing control. A semi-truck diverted its path from Vallejo's motorcycle to avoid damaging it and ran over Vallejo, crushing his entire body, helmet, and head. Property was seen as more valuable than a human being. Vallejo's chances of life would be drastically increased if Florida committed to alternative modes of transportation. This is the editor's motivation for more alternatives. Less deaths. More life.