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A review by fraeyalise
Let's Become Fungal!: Mycelium Teachings and the Arts: Based on Conversations with Indigenous Wisdom Keepers, Artists, Curators, Feminists and Mycologists by Yasmine Ostendorf-RodrÃguez
Did not finish book. Stopped at 0%.
I really wanted to like this book, a lot. I love the formatting of it - everything is so intentional and I like how it was designed.
However, I was expecting something more like Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer, where you learn about moss and then she ties it to human nature. Here, you don't really learn about fungi, you learn about the people who the author considers embodying a fungal nature. Which is cool, she is uplifting voices that wouldn't normally be in the public eye.
However, as a white woman from Europe writing this, I can't help but wonder if all the people she talked with and interviewed that made it into this book earn a portion of the profits she's making off of their knowledge. I want to give her the benefit of the doubt - no doubt she is doing good work for the planet, artists, and activists. But I still don't really feel a pull to finish this book, because I wanted to learn about fungi more, and I'm unsure about the implications here of using indigenous knowledge to profit off a book when you aren't indigenous.
However, I was expecting something more like Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer, where you learn about moss and then she ties it to human nature. Here, you don't really learn about fungi, you learn about the people who the author considers embodying a fungal nature. Which is cool, she is uplifting voices that wouldn't normally be in the public eye.
However, as a white woman from Europe writing this, I can't help but wonder if all the people she talked with and interviewed that made it into this book earn a portion of the profits she's making off of their knowledge. I want to give her the benefit of the doubt - no doubt she is doing good work for the planet, artists, and activists. But I still don't really feel a pull to finish this book, because I wanted to learn about fungi more, and I'm unsure about the implications here of using indigenous knowledge to profit off a book when you aren't indigenous.