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Bird Book Club: Bird Girl
September 28 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Birdgirl : Looking to the Skies in Search of a Better Future by Mya-Rose
Register now for free to join our upcoming Zoom session with the author.
Thursday, Sept 28th, 2023, 12pm.
Register HERE
This is a lunch event!
Meet Mya-Rose – British-Bangladeshi birder, environmentalist and activist. otherwise known as “Birdgirl.” In her words: “Birdwatching has never felt like a hobby, or a pastime I can pick up and put down, but a thread running through the pattern of my life, so tightly woven in that there’s no way of pulling it free and leaving the rest of my life intact.”
Birdgirl follows Mya-Rose and her family as they travel the world in search of rare birds and astonishing landscapes. But a shadow moves with them, too—her mother’s deepening mental health crisis. In the face of this struggle, the Craigs turn to nature again and again for comfort and meaning.
Each bird they see brings a moment of joy and reflection, instilling in Mya-Rose a deep love of the natural world. But Mya-Rose has also seen first-hand the reckless destruction we are inflicting on our fragile planet, as well as the pervasive racism infecting every corner of the world, leading her to campaign for Black, Indigenous, people of color.