Book lovers, join a naturalist and other nature enthusiasts to discuss books that explore nature from different perspectives. The books chosen will focus on BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ viewpoints. While each meeting will focus on the listed book, if you have other reads that you have enjoyed please bring them to share with the group.
August: Forest Euphoria: the abounding queerness of nature by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian (Release Date May 27, 2025)
Quote from the publisher on “Forest Euphoria”- “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 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, a mystery that 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.”
