With a Bird, Marjolein Van der Loo ed.

With a Bird, A Reader on Avian Kinship, Marjolein Van der Loo ed.

With a Bird’ invites readers into an expansive, cross-disciplinary conversation about how we live with an think alongside birds. The book frames birds not as metaphors or curiosities, but as kin – creatures with their own histories, desires, and forms of knowing. Spanning speculative fiction, personal essay, visual art, ancestral memory, and critical ornithology, contributions explore the fragile, often overlooked relationships between birds and humans across myth, science, migration, and dream. With an eye towards multispecies futures, the book draws on decolonial, feminist, and ecological practices to unsettle dominant narratives and invite forms of care, reciprocity, and repair.

Publisher: Onomatopee
Year: 2025
Editor: Marjolein Van der Loo
Authors: John Berger, Ignace Cami, Monika Czyzyk, Bryony Dunne, Daniel Godínez Nivón, Daisy Hildyard, Manjot Kaur, Natalie Lawrence, Marianne Elisabeth Lien, Michelle J. Moyer, Evangeline M. Rose, Bernard Lohr, Karan J. Odom, Kevin E. Omland, Nicholas Mirzoeff, Ai Ozaki, Maria Popova, Sergio Rojas Chaves, Sara Sejin Chang (Sara van der Heide), Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Yuri Tuma, and Suzanne Walsh.
Format: Softcover
Pages: 288
Dimensions: 111 x 170 x 20 mm
Language: English