Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian

Forest Euphoria (eBook, ePUB)

The Abounding Queerness of Nature

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A thrilling book about the abounding queerness of the natural world that challenges our expectations of what is normal, beautiful, and possible.

Growing up, Patricia Kaishian felt most at home in the swamps and culverts near her house in the Hudson Valley. A child who frequently felt out of place, too much of one thing or not enough of another, she found acceptance in these settings, among other amphibious beings. In snakes, snails, and, above all, fungi, she saw her own developing identities as a queer, neurodivergent person reflected back at herand in them, too, she found a personal path to a life of science.

In Forest Euphoria, Kaishian shows us this making of a scientist and introduces readers to the queerness of all the life around us. Fungi, we learn, commonly have more than two biological sexesand some as many as twenty-three thousand. Some intersex slugs mutually fire calcium carbonate love darts at each other during courtship. Glass eels are sexually undetermined until their last year of life, which stumped scientists once dubbed the eel question. Nature, Kaishian shows us, is filled with the unusual, the overlooked, and the marginalizedand they have lessons for us all.

Wide-ranging, richly observant, and full of surprise, Forest Euphoria will open your eyes and change how you look at the world around you.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Spiegel & Grau
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781954118911
• Artikelnr.: 72255800

Autorenporträt

Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian is the curator of mycology at the New York State Museum, as well as faculty with the Bard Prison Initiative. Kaishian earned her PhD from SUNY College of Environmental Science & Forestry. She lives in the Hudson Valley.

Inhaltsangabe

Interspecies Dens
Slugs, Snails, and Other Ways of Being
Swamp Creatures
Fungal Personhood
Cemetery Crows
Purple Love
Community Time
The Magnetism of Eels
Spring Ephemerals: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow