Queer Mycology Lab

Funded by The Sapling Fund in partnership with Leeds University, the ‘Queer Mycology Lab’ is an innovative, hands-on creative ecology project exploring fungi as powerful guides for connection, transformation, and queer ways of being through curiosity, respect, and shared discovery.

Together with Feminist Lecturer and Mycologist Dr Elspeth Mitchell, I led a small group of queer participants aged 18-25 to know fungi as living beings with their own roles, needs, and ways of relating to the world. Our co-created programme of activity – taking place across Spring/Summer 2026, includes activities such as mushroom foraging walks, creative making workshops, cultivation sessions and group conversations. Here we create a space for a dialogue between human understandings and fungal worlds – a chance to learn with fungi rather than from them.

More information about this project HERE [will be open for recruitment in February 2026)