#112 Resilience, creative joy & loving nature with Kes Otter Lieffe

Hey everyone, I'm so happy to bring this episode your way! It's given me a lot of joy & hope to listen back just now and I hope you'll feel the same. Kes is an absolute creative community building dream babe and has also been on episode #27. Here is some of what we talked about:   How the pandemic has changed creative lives  Making things more accessible & opening up new possibilities   Writing powerful trans women and radical sex workers   Our love for life & non-human nature  Kes Otter Lieffe is a working class, chronically ill, femme, trans woman. She is an author, teacher and community organiser currently based in Berlin.  Kes is the author of a trilogy of trans feminist novels—Margins and Murmurations, Conserve and Control and Dignity. Her short story Synergy was published in ‘Our Entangled Future’ an anthology on social change and the climate crisis. Her short story Soft was published in the beautiful anthology on queer resilience, Glitter + Ashes. Kes is also the author of the colouring zine, Queer Animals, published by Microcosm, which will be made soon into a full colouring book. Kes facilitates workshops on subjects including trans-competency, queer ecology and consensus and has taught in various contexts from squats to universities. She also runs writing classes and has an online course, Writing from the Margins.  https://otterlieffe.com/ //If you enjoy listening and would like some support for your practice please consider joining my Patreon. In the Practice // Space community you’ll get access to recorded workshops, ritual guides, journaling prompts and movement & creative practices to explore in your own time. I also host monthly intention setting sessions and quiet co-creating sessions on Zoom around each new moon. Join here: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/practice/ Thank you!//