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Read with Pride In-Person

Date:: Thursday, March 5, 2026
Time:: 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Time Zone:: Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
Location:: Dutcher Community Room
Audience:: Adults
Categories:: Book Groups and Literature Discussions SaratogaREADS!

Join us for a discussion of Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian. Please register online*

In Forest Euphoria, Kaishian shows us this making of a scientist and introduces readers to the queerness, literal and otherwise, of all the life around us. Fungi, we learn, commonly have more than two biological sexes—and some as many as twenty-three thousand. Some intersex slugs mutually fire calcium carbonate “love darts” at each other during courtship. Glass eels are sexually undetermined until their last year of life, which stumped scientists once dubbed “the eel question.” Nature, Kaishian shows us, is filled with the unusual, the overlooked, and the marginalized—and they have lessons for us all. 2025; 255 pages.

Read with Rainbow horse with 5 green stars above, and a circular banner below reading: SaratogaPride.com. Pride is an ongoing reading group that meets the first Thursday of each month and reads fiction and nonfiction from the LGBTQ+ community.

Co-sponsored by Saratoga Pride

This program is inspired by our 2026 SaratogaREADS! selection, Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery.

*Registration not required but recommended for a reminder.

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