Kira Walker
@kira-walker.bsky.social
Writer & photographer chasing light, birds, beauty & awe. Amor Mundi on Substack ✨🌿🕊️
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There are few (no?) things more human to me than insisting on beauty and life amidst the most heinous horrors, violence and crimes.
May we all do all we can so that the people and birds and skies of Gaza know peace 🕊 Free Palestine.
birdersofpalestine.com
May we all do all we can so that the people and birds and skies of Gaza know peace 🕊 Free Palestine.
birdersofpalestine.com
Birders of Palestine
Support the birdwatchers of Gaza. Prints and postcards taken by Palestinian birders.
birdersofpalestine.com
September 6, 2025 at 5:16 PM
There are few (no?) things more human to me than insisting on beauty and life amidst the most heinous horrors, violence and crimes.
May we all do all we can so that the people and birds and skies of Gaza know peace 🕊 Free Palestine.
birdersofpalestine.com
May we all do all we can so that the people and birds and skies of Gaza know peace 🕊 Free Palestine.
birdersofpalestine.com
Marta also wrote this story in 2024 on birdwatchers in Gaza and the West Bank continuing to pursue their hobby despite the violence and horror all around them.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Sometimes I wonder if I’ll come back’: Palestinian birdwatchers defy danger to scan the skies
In the West Bank and Gaza, a growing number of birdwatchers are pursuing their hobby despite the violence surrounding them
www.theguardian.com
September 6, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Marta also wrote this story in 2024 on birdwatchers in Gaza and the West Bank continuing to pursue their hobby despite the violence and horror all around them.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
To learn about how birdwatching in Gaza is a form of solace for Lara and Mandy Sirdah, read this wonderful story by my friend and colleague Marta Vidal.
www.iwmf.org/reporting/ho...
www.iwmf.org/reporting/ho...
How Trapped Palestinians Fell in Love With Bird-Watching - IWMF
GAZA CITY—The skies of Gaza fill with shifting shapes on an early spring morning. At first they are barely visible, only specks soaring above central Gaza’s wetlands.
Mandy Sirdah quickly raises her b...
www.iwmf.org
September 6, 2025 at 5:16 PM
To learn about how birdwatching in Gaza is a form of solace for Lara and Mandy Sirdah, read this wonderful story by my friend and colleague Marta Vidal.
www.iwmf.org/reporting/ho...
www.iwmf.org/reporting/ho...
Perhaps of interest? uk.bookshop.org/p/books/if-w...
If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution: 'as good as journalism gets' a book by Vincent Bevins.
This book is phenomenal ... It's about as good as journalism gets ...The highest praise I can give If We Burn is to say that it would be criminally negligent not to read it if you'd like to change the...
uk.bookshop.org
May 22, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Perhaps of interest? uk.bookshop.org/p/books/if-w...
Reposted by Kira Walker
Western governments have made it clear that they do not care about human rights and the rule of law when it comes to people of colour, the global majority. They spit on humanity. 500 years on from the beginning of the European colonial project and they have hardly changed in this regard.
May 12, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Western governments have made it clear that they do not care about human rights and the rule of law when it comes to people of colour, the global majority. They spit on humanity. 500 years on from the beginning of the European colonial project and they have hardly changed in this regard.