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Folkwise Chat Commands (Twitch Channel Folklore)

On our primary platform Twitch, we have an automod called NightBot to help us filter through Spam and Trolls while we are streaming. Nightbot also helps chatters and moderators more easily share links to social media and other functions for community engagement. NightBot has found a new and much more important service – the facilitationContinue reading “Folkwise Chat Commands (Twitch Channel Folklore)”

Folk Cited Recap: Queer Mycology and Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake

An image of a stack of books with two 3D printed slugs on top. There are also plants and a sign in the background that reads “Folkwise is Alive @ Twitch.tv/Folkwise. Worm theory.” The texts included are: “Mushroom at the End of the World” by Anna Tsing; “Entangled Life” by Merlín Sheldrake; “The Multispecies Salon” ed. by Eben Kirksey; “Performing Environmentalisms” ed. by McDowell, Borland, Dirksen, and Tuohy; “Finding the Mother Forest” by Suzanne Simard; “Radical Mycology” by Peter McCoy.

Mycology is the study of fungi, which includes mushrooms and yeasts. This is an interdisciplinary field most notably carried out in hard sciences and biological fields, but has branched out into other disciplines and collaborations, including grassroots and community movements. These groups work together with fungi to help us better understand the influence of fungusContinue reading “Folk Cited Recap: Queer Mycology and Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake”

Folkwise will be at the American Folklore Society’s Annual Conference!

Folkwise has been hired by the American Folklore Society to make the 2021 annual conference experience feel more hybridized for attendants.