Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

Maria Pinto: Misbehaving toward our fungal futures

May 5, 2026·45 min
Episode Description from the Publisher

"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 PintoThis 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 subscribe to Green Dreamer via any podcast app;tap into our bonus extended and video version of this conversation on Patreon here;and read highlights from these conversations via Kaméa’s newsletter here.Episode artwork: Paul LewinSong features: “If You Want To, You Will” by Lemon Myrtle

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