mushroom gathering
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“How Does Your Tongue Even Lift to Hustle Me Along!”: Care and Surveillance in the Lithuanian Borderland
“Zielonki” mushrooms gathered by one of Katra’s elderly residents. Photo by Dalia Blažulionytė. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. By Eunice Blavascunas “I do not find the mushrooms. The mushrooms find me!” And with this declaration 82-year-old Zinaida justifies breaking the rules. She enters the forest commons–turned–military-exclusion zone to meet the mushrooms that want to locate her. Lithuania,