#ALTTEXT from #Mushroom #Fungi picture:
"Fungi challenge us to rethink neat categories around the individual, but they are not the only ones. Another boundary-defying organism is the Slime Mold. These unicellular eukaryotic organisms have the astonishing capacity to join and become a complex multicellular organism. Slime Molds will merge and move as a collective which allows them to better respond to their shifting environments, search for food, and have sex. In a world that feels increasingly precarious, there are lessons here. Devin Cohen, one of the Hanky Project artists, writes that for them, Slime Molds reflect the possibilities for queer communities to work collectively, dissemble the refuse of our human world -- capitalism, environmental waste, cis-hetero-patriarchy, racism -- and 'digest it into something life giving, healed, welcoming and weird.' In a country where toxic individualism has wreaked havoc, where mantras like 'pull yourself up by the bootstraps,' are presented as means for 'success,' organisms that choose to come together present a radical and refreshing alternative."
- #Quote from the book:
Exuberant Possibilities : Queer Ecology Hanky Project
Photo is of pages 18 and 19 of the book as displayed during the exhibit, Earth Archives. the page is typed in light purple text. the page is illustrated with a blue-green block print of a mushroom centaur holding a crystal staff .. many blue-green block print #honey mushrooms also decorate the page.
#Mold Molds #Alternative #eukaryotic #multicellular #centaur
