🍄 Queer Theory for Lichens

Lichens have long been used to argue for the symbiotic nature of life — that humans can't be thought of as individuals by any biological criteria. Following that thread, this scholarly piece asks: 'if we have never been human — if we are all composites like lichens — then what does this mean for sexuality?' Provocative implications for reproductive norms and the interconnectedness of life: if bodies are supra-organisms 'always already inhabited' by countless others, perhaps some of the stigma around illness and difference might ease.