Mel’s Reviews > Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature > Status Update

"Recounting the broad strokes of any genocide is like describing the ocean as a bowl of water. The real depth and dimension of the atrocities is in the specifics, most of which are now unknown— the moment a household’s hearth went cold for the last time, the rhythm of a particular bedtime story never again told, the exact tone of a man wailing."

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"The ways that fungi are seen as poisonous, disease-carrying, degenerate, deadly, freaky, gross, and weird—language historically leveled against queer and other marginalized people—are more than a metaphor. How they are treated, in many branches of science and in popular perception, is a representation of our society’s values. We live in a culture that demands control, predictability, and clear definitions."