Maria Pinto: Misbehaving toward our fungal futures

"There is an uncanniness, a way in which [fungi] were not behaving perfectly, in which it's hard to study them in a petri dish… They upset that wish that everything would fall into binaries and categories that have made sense." – Maria Pinto This episode features Maria Pinto , an author and educator who teaches for the literary nonprofit GrubStreet. Her book of lyric essays about mushrooms, Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless: What Fungi Taught Me about Nourishment, Poison, Ecology, Hidden Histories, Zombies, and Black Survival, was published by Great Circle Books at UNC Press. We invite you to… tune in and

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Maria Pinto: Misbehaving toward our fungal futures is an episode from Green Dreamer: Sustainability From Ideas to Life with Eco Pioneers, Revolutionary Thinkers, Leading Creatives by Kaméa Chayne.

This episode is 45:00 long.

This episode was published on May 5, 2026.

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