Forest Euphoria – The Abounding Queerness of Nature
How the queerness of the natural world challenges our expectations of what is normal.
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Dear Fellow Myconauts,
Join us at Exploring the Mycoverse as we discuss one of our favorite thinkers and authors, Dr. Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian’s new book, which explores the abounding queerness of the natural world that challenges our expectations of what is normal.
Forest Euphoria – The Abounding Queerness of Nature
Monday, October 13th, 7pm @ Arlington Garden, Pasadena, CA – Free by donation
🌿 “Forest Euphoria pulses with vitality, in the wondrous beings we encounter and Kaishian’s vivid storytelling. I’m in awe of her ability to interweave the little-known lives of slugs and fungi with memoir and social movements, so that every page broadens one’s vision. Her expansive view of life provides an antidote to the loneliness of our species.”—Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass
🍄🟫 Through reading Kaishian’s work previously in our Exploring the Mycoverse discussion sessions, Kaishian has expanded our minds by showing us mycology as a queer discipline and challenged how we think about parasitism and pathogens.
Kaishian is involved in numerous inspiring projects, including serving as the Curator of Mycology at the New York State Museum, founding the International Congress of Armenian Mycologists, and being a board member of the Fungal Diversity Survey.
1️⃣ This is the first of two discussions we have for this book. The second discussion will be in November.
✨🌜 Vanessa Machuca will lead a meditation at the start of our discussion. 🌛✨
📝 Before our Discussion, we invite you to read:
🌟 Roughly the first half of the book, around 100 pages, Interspecies Dens through Cemetery Crows, pages 1-114
✨🌜 Vanessa Machuca will lead a meditation at the start of our discussion. 🌛✨
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Spores that caught our attention ✨
Patricia Kaishian is the guest editor of a new Sci-Fi magazine. This edition is called Something’s Rotting. You guessed it, it’s speculative fungal fiction exploring speculative ideas around farming, food, earth sciences, and beyond, imagining a positive future here on Earth (in the earth). So much of Sci-Fi is literally not grounded here on Earth, so it’s refreshing to see this!