Kim Kelly
Kim Kelly is a freelance journalist and organizer based in Philadelphia. Her work on labor, class, politics, and culture has appeared in The New Republic, The Washington Post, The Baffler, and Esquire, among other publications, and she is the author of FIGHT LIKE HELL, a book of intersectional labor history.
Death As Life’s Work: What It’s Like to Be a Funeral Director or Gravedigger
Co-published with Teen Vogue. For funeral directors, gravediggers, and crime-scene cleaners, death is life’s work.
A Trip to the Nail Salon With Missing Fingers
Co-published with Allure. Getting your talons done should be soothing, but for me, it also comes with a bolt of initial dread.
Barely Necessities
Co-published with The Baffler. At car dealerships and companies peddling tchotchkes to suburban teens, bosses stretch the definition of "essential" to its breaking point.
Labor Day Is a Government Scam
Co-published with Teen Vogue. Even if Labor Day wasn’t intended to be a rip-off, it sure is now.