About OnlyFerns

Saving the forest,
one orgasm at a time.

OnlyFerns is an art and film project by Kirsha Kaechele, bringing sex workers and forest workers together to reimagine forest futures.

Pro love. Pro nature. Pro nudity. Pro worker.

We are interested in appetite. Our urge to possess, consume, conquer—and create. Desire moves bodies and money. We’d like to see what it can do for old-growth forests.

Through film and performance, our creators use their bodies, imaginations and erotic labour to seduce an audience and generate revenue. Our ambition is to turn that attention into practical support for old-growth forests and the people whose livelihoods depend on them.

Sex workers and forest workers know what it means to have their labour judged from afar, their work politicised and their livelihoods reduced to stereotypes. OnlyFerns creates an unexpected alliance: worker-to-worker solidarity, with pleasure as a means of making change.

Our first goal: pay forest workers, hour for hour, to build something beautiful in a forest they would otherwise be paid to log. Bring workers, Palawa leaders, scientists, activists, industry and artists together to demonstrate what else is possible when the trees stay standing.

This work must be shaped with Palawa leadership and grounded in care for Country. We honour the generations of forest activists who have placed their bodies between trees and destruction. We recognise forest workers’ knowledge, skills and economic security as essential to a sustainable future.

OnlyFerns considers the whole ecosystem: human, animal, ecological, economic. Can pleasure fund protection and repair? Can desire give more than it takes?

We offer up our bodies. We invite you to help build something beautiful.

We need you to come.

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