Virtual Book Club: Forest Euphora: The Abounding Queerness of Nature

Join us for this month's book club! Our 82nd book is Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian!

BOOK:
A thrilling book about the abounding queerness of the natural world that challenges our expectations of what is normal, beautiful, and possible. In Forest Euphoria, Kaishian shows us this making of a scientist and introduces readers to the queerness, literal and otherwise, of all the life around us. Fungi, we learn, commonly have more than two biological sexes—and 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 marginalized—and they have lessons for us all.

CONTENT NOTES*:
Graphic
Sexual assault, Child abuse, Sexual violence

Moderate
Genocide, Homophobia, Colonization

Minor
Pandemic/Epidemic, Toxic relationship, Slavery

*Content warnings pulled from Storygraph. If any were missed, please message Maura and they will amend the event page!

LOCATION: our homes

ACCESS:
Since this discussion will take place over zoom, live captioning/transcription is available through zoom and will be enabled. Send other accessibility questions or requests to Maura and they will work with you to find a solution/accommodation.

IMAGE DESCRIPTION FOR COVER PHOTO: Book cover next to photo of author. Book Cover features a plant with a snake, mushrooms, and a crow entertwined. The author is a woman with dark brown curly hair pulled up with a wide headband. She has a black top and jeans on and is crouching in front of large ferns.