Queer human microbiopolitics by Tarsh Bates on The Seed Box
What does it mean to be human when we recognise our bodies as multispecies ecologies? My research explores the intimate and fraught contact zones of biology, aesthetics, culture and care between Homo sapiens and Candida albicans, the yeast commonly known as thrush. C. albicans is one of the hundreds of viral/bacterial/fungal/insect species dwelling in the complex ecology that …