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Kes Otter Lieffe

Kes Otter Lieffe

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…

4 min readJun 30, 2019

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Kes Otter Lieffe

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…

2 min readMar 3, 2019

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Kes Otter Lieffe

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…

4 min readDec 9, 2018

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Kes Otter Lieffe

Guest interview: Arron Gill

Through my writing work I’ve had the honour of meeting some incredible activists across the world. Continuing this series, I interviewed…

4 min readDec 2, 2018

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Guest interview: Arron Gill

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Kes Otter Lieffe

Fight like hell

This Tuesday is Trans Day of Remembrance/Resilience. It’s become something of a tradition, this ‘remembering’ of the trans folk (almost…

1 min readNov 19, 2018

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Kes Otter Lieffe

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…

9 min readSep 2, 2018

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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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