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The Feminist Bird Club
Birding and social justice goes hand in hand in this group.
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The Feminist Bird Club, or FBC for short, is a birding group that’s intentional about making sure people from all backgrounds feel welcome, says FBC board member Jeana Fucello. At this group’s events, birding and social justice go hand-in-hand, says Kasia Chmielinski, the co-founder of the Jersey City FBC chapter. The group discusses the history of the place they’re visiting, from the original inhabitants of the land to the legacies of polluting companies — helping contextualize the place and its wildlife.
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The Feminist Bird Club
Adapted from Bring Birds Back podcast
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[Dawn chorus, ML 229518]
The Feminist Bird Club, or FBC for short, is a birding group that’s intentional about making sure people from all backgrounds feel welcome, says FBC board member Jeana Fucello.
Jeana Fucello: The main mission of the club is to try to create a space where people can feel comfortable coming to an event and going birding with us because it's not always the most comfortable being alone in nature. It's very good to be able to offer a space where people can come and one: not feel foolish for not knowing anything if they're brand new and two: feel like they're protected by, like, the numbers that we have.
At this group’s events, birding and social justice go hand-in-hand, says Kasia Chmielinski, the co-founder of the Jersey City FBC chapter.
Kasia Chmielinski: So we'll talk about not just, you know, who has historically been on that land, but also about the companies and the toxic cleanups and, or things that haven't been cleaned up and the, the kind of, um, disagreements or fights that have taken place in order to make this place where the way it is today so that people are also contextualized. So hopefully you learn something about the history.
[Dawn chorus, ML 229518]
Learn more about the Feminist Bird Club on the Bring Birds Back podcast. Listen in your podcast app or at BirdNote dot org. I’m Tenijah Hamilton.
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Bird sounds provided by The Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York. Birdsong chorus ML229518 recorded by D. McCartt.
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Narrator: Tenijah Hamilton
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