Status Updates From Forest Euphoria: The Abound...

This book is lowkey bad but im reading it for a book club. But I also have a soft spot for the topic so im conflicted

DNF… I was excited to get into a compilation of examples of queerness in nature but it was mostly the author begging the audience to think of them as good good never bad via constant social justice virtue signaling. it makes me sad because i also used to feel like i had to do that all the time but in my case I was dealing with scrupulosity OCD and feeling generally unworthy of anything. it gets better!!!

i felt safest when i was unwitnessedby other people. i could move outside of society's gaze, outside the grip of cultural prescriptions and interventions. my hair could run wild,i could dress androgynously, i could be covered in mud. being in the culverts or the forest was a chance to move amphibiously, to shape shift, to creep, to oscillate like algae in a riffle, to be neither a boy nor a girl and have no particula