Birdsplaining: A Natural History

In pursuit of moments of feeling ’sharply alive’ and confronting fear of the body’s betrayals, Birdsplaining is focused unapologetically on the uniqueness of women’s experience of nature and constraints placed upon it. Sometimes bristling, always ethical, it upends familiar ways of seeing the natural world.

Jasmine Donahaye’s work has appeared in the New York Times and The Guardian, and her documentary, ’Statue No 1’, was broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Her books include the memoir, Losing Israel (2015), winner of the nonfiction category in the Wales Book of the Year award; a biography of author Lily Tobias, The Greatest Need (2015), the basis for ’O Ystalyfera i Israel’, broadcast by S4C; the cultural study Whose People? Wales, Israel, Palestine (2012), and two collections of poetry: Misappropriations (2006) and Self-Portrait as Ruth (2009).