Our Mushroom Moment? On the Trans Possibilities of a New History of Communal Life

Mushrooms are a hot metaphor just now. From the thousands of genders found in fungi to the mycorrhizal 'wood wide web' that lets forests communicate, mushrooms are the means for new ways of thinking about everything from sex to community structures.

Could they also change how we write history? In this lecture, Professor Mo Moulton reflects on the relationship between identities and communities in modern British, Irish, and queer histories. Ranging from kinship to co-operatives to trans studies, they argue that a new history of communal life is an urgent necessity.