Fungi exist everywhere on our planet, but they often subvert or don’t fit into society’s preconceived ideas about sex, reproduction, beauty, agriculture, and capitalism. worldfungiday Created in partnership with rewild.
Fungi are neither plants nor animals, but their own kingdom entirely . They are more closely related to animals than to plants, as both digest organic matter, recycling it back into nutrients. The most recent update of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, published just shy of the one-year anniversary of the Species Survival Commission’s pledge to be more mycologically inclusive, in July 2022, included 597 species of fungi.
“I was struck by how many parallels I was seeing between the way people react to mushrooms and the way people react to queerness in a culture that’s struggling with homophobia,” says Kaishian. “They are these very cryptic fungi that have co-evolved with arthropods for hundreds of millions of years,” says Kaishian. “Very few people know about them. Even most mycologists don’t know much about them. They’re the most diverse lineage of fungi associated with insects.”
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