The deadline for our #opencall is around the corner! 👀✍️🍄🎨

We're seeking original art for our first-ever mini-issue on Substack, centered on death, decomposition, and bodies.

Read our latest newsletter to find out how you can submit:
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Introducing our Issue 3 guest editor, Dr. Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian! 🍄🌱🪱

Dr. Kaishian is the author of Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature, a blend of memoir and science writing that challenges our expectations of what is normal, beautiful, and possible.

Every metamorphosis requires some kind of breakdown. Today marks the Autumn Equinox, the beginning of a new season and the launch of Issue 3: SOMETHING’S ROTTING. Join us as we fall into decay! 🐌🍄🍂🪱🕷️

Live now at tractorbeam.earth 🚜🛸🌍

Tomorrow... Fall is coming to Tractor Beam 🐌🪱🍂🕷🍄

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Scientist Dr. Luke McKay breaks down just how much of our planet and bodies are made up of microorganisms.

Spoiler alert: Even when we are completely healthy, we’re mostly microbial! 🦠🧫🔬

“It’s like I got this whole other world inside me now. I’m like Noah’s Ark.”

In “The Hard Way,” by Christopher Mark Rose (@chrisrose.bsky.social), 15-year-old Dontae discovers a mysterious, unclassifiable biome in his gut, possibly a second genesis of life.

Year: 2170. Nigeria had seen it all: floods, heatwaves, desert creep from the north.

A group of stubborn Nigerian youths said, “E don do.” They were tech bros, agberos, TikTok chefs, ex-SARS whistleblowers, and one mad scientist from Zaria.

They formed the movement: “Soil Na Baba.”

#Summer is coming to Tractor Beam... June 20th 🌞🌿🪱

And someone special is bringing you some amazing summer reading... 👀

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#soilpunk #summerreading #summeriscoming #guesteditor #intersectionalenvironmentalist

"Even if you’re writing about the future, it’s about the present in some way."

@lrlam.bsky.social reflects on writing speculative fiction, and @nataliyakosmyna.bsky.social explains how annotations can help readers connect the dots to their everyday lives.

#optimisticfutures #scifi #BookSky

Hey #Austin! We're headed your way next week.

We're partnering up with Festival Beach Food Forest to throw a garden party celebrating the #summerequinox, future-forward storytelling, and #climateoptimism! 💚

Join us for an evening of readings, food, music & more:
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"What is the future of the climate crisis going to be? How are we going to adapt and find resilience within that?"

Author @chrisrmuscato.bsky.social talks about the importance of optimism in climate fiction and his work.

#GreenSky #optimism #hopecore #climatecrisis