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Classify and Control: part one

This article explores some of the ways we classify the life around us, the colonial legacies of botany and the stunning diversity of plants

Oct 31, 2024

Classify and Control: part one

Oct 31, 2024

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Interdependence: part one

Is life really just competition for limited resources or is there more to the story?

Sep 1, 2024

A photograph of a conifer seedling growing in moss

Sep 1, 2024

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Journeys through Queer Ecology: part one

Welcome to this new series exploring queer ecology, class, activism and nature connection.

Jul 19, 2024

A photograph shows a tree branch with several species of moss and lichen growing on it

Jul 19, 2024

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Walking on eggshells — surviving social capital

I’ve never done well with groups. Some of my earliest social memories were feeling like everyone around me was under a spell that left me…

Dec 9, 2018

Dec 9, 2018

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My Gender is Precarity

This article was originally published in 2018. This is an updated version as my thoughts on class and gender have developed and grown, as I…

Sep 2, 2018

Sep 2, 2018

Classify and Control: part two

An invitation to bravely leave classification and colonial categories behind and mindfully engage with the world as it really is.

Nov 30, 2024

Classify and Control: part two

Nov 30, 2024

Interdependence: part two

Exploring cooperation, relationships — and beavers!

Oct 1, 2024

A photograph of a conifer forest in fog

Oct 1, 2024

Journeys through Queer Ecology: part two

Welcome to the second part of this article exploring queer ecology, class, and some of the barriers to nature connection.

Aug 1, 2024

photograph shows moss with fruiting bodies perhaps on a forest floor. The background is dark and blurred

Aug 1, 2024

Too tired to rest, too busy to stop: the class privilege of self-care and why we deserve better.

Sometimes it’s too much for me. Not only surviving and paying bills but also taking on more and more as it all falls apart around us and…

Jun 30, 2019

Jun 30, 2019

Imposing

Imposter syndrome is something we’re supposed to push through, they tell me. It’s all in my head, they tell me. You can do anything you…

Mar 3, 2019

Mar 3, 2019

Kes Otter Lieffe

Kes Otter Lieffe

Kes Otter Lieffe is a writer, ecologist, and community organiser. She writes from a working-class, chronically ill, transfeminine perspective.

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