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Oct 31, 2024

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

Classify and Control: part one

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Sep 1, 2024

Interdependence: part one

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

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Jul 19, 2024

Journeys through Queer Ecology: part one

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

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Dec 9, 2018

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…

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Sep 2, 2018

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…

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Nov 30, 2024

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.

Classify and Control: part two

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Oct 1, 2024

Interdependence: part two

Exploring cooperation, relationships — and beavers!

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Aug 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.

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Jun 30, 2019

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…

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Mar 3, 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…

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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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