Wildfire Conference 2026

What this session covered

Mushrooms and racing cars, used to look at what sits underneath the behaviour we can see. The cap above ground is the small part. The mycelium underneath is the organism, and it keeps everything else alive. What the mushroom grows in matters too, so the session treated colonialism, whiteness, capitalism, patriarchy, cisheteronormativity and compulsory ablebodiedness as the soil rather than the background, alongside neuronormativity, the assumption that there is one correct way to feel, think, communicate and function. Then the sticker, held out until an arm gets tired, because the effort of holding something small is tiny and the effort of holding it for a long time is not. From there, warning lights and wear and tear, why an F1 team expects damage from the track instead of blaming the car, trauma with a capital T and trauma with a lower case t, what trauma therapy looks like when the protocol bends to the person, and masking as a boost button, finite and costly and worth having agency over.