Bristol Fungarium | Organic Mushroom Extracts

Happy International Pride Day 🍄🙌🏼🌈 Technically speaking, the whole month of June is LGBTQIA+ Pride Month, filled with prismatic parades, picnics, parties, workshops, symposia and concerts galore attracting millions of glorious gays around the globe to celebrate queerness in all it’s myriad, morphing forms. Memorials are also held for members of the community who have been tragically lost to hate crimes, HIV/AIDS or suicide. Lest we forget 💫 LGBTQIA+ oppression has manifested itself in all areas of thought, and mycology is no exception. But mycology is Queer at the organismal and organisational level 🌈🍄 Fungi resist imposed categorisation, helping us to shift paradigms away from binary, rigid and heteronormative ways of understanding nature towards interdependency and fluidity. Fungi sex is Feeld on Mushrooms. A Queendom of kinky, swinging, casual, ethical non-monogamists supporting intersex, interspecies, into-whatever-the-hell-you-want-to-be-into even if it’s absolutely nothing intimacies! 🍄❤️🤩🌈 (there are many asexual, DIY fungi). Schizophyllum commune for instance - the fabulous fungi shown in the pics - encompasses a complex mating system involving over 28,000 (!!!) different sexes 🤯 Fungi are creative and recreative legends — in their world, there is no shame, no stigma, no hierarchies, no binaries: they are amorphous, mercurial creatures, taking the shape of whatever container they find themselves in and slaying it 💅 At the organisation level, the (actual) Field of mycology is driven by amateur mycologists, citizen scientists, psychonauts, and low-key fungi lovers 🍄 It is hyper intersectional and interdisciplinary, entangling foragers, cooks, artists, musicians, designers, architects, scientists, herbalists, nutritionists, philosophers, psychologists, ecologists, poets, writers, and people of all ages and walks of life. Mycology is QUEER and RADICAL and we are all the way here for it. Happy International Pride Day 🫶🏼 Mush love from your weird and wonderfully queer neighbourhood mushroom folk, always 🍄♥️ #BristolFungarium #BristolBorn #ScienceLed 🍄 ♥️ 🌈 #queerecology #mycology #queer #internationalprideday #LGBTQIA + #pride