One thing I love about @prismreports.org is that they work so closely with incarcerated writers, and surface things I had never thought about before. This piece on how extended incarceration is a violation of reproductive rights by functionally serving as involuntary sterilization is fantastic.

The AFL-CIO should start throwing some money towards labor journalism. If it was done right (i.e. with them accepting that journalists must have full editorial control over what’s published, whether or not union leaders like what they have to say) it could really have such a hugely positive impact

I'm one of the four fired employees. I was a writer & producer at Bon Appétit for nearly five years, during which I helped organize our union and sat on our bargaining committee. I am, to my knowledge, the only trans woman in our union and the only trans woman on editorial who doesn't work at Them

Breaking News: Late last night Conde Nast illegally fired 4 union organizers who asked company execs to explain the downsizing of Teen Vogue and continued layoffs. We’ve filed a grievance.

Hello fellow metalheads, as I've said before I'm going through an incredibly difficult time hence the hiatus for the show. I am now in between jobs as I had to make a drastic decision to preserve my mental health My friend made this GoFundMe. www.gofundme.com/f/help-maddi...

we’ve got about two years until our evil Philly mayor’s term is up btw

i can’t believe a good thing happened we should do this more often

Jersey’s staying blue, baby! The GOP guy was extra evil so I’ll take the W here

literally could not look more normal today and yet the eyeballing from strangers persists

if you want to know what happened to Teen Vogue yesterday, my work wife @allegrak.bsky.social — who ran our politics section for 6 years until this past June — said it all in this. can't even pull out a favorite part til I sign my separation letter lol, just read the whole thing.

Two of the most significant politics editors in Teen Vogue’s history were working class trans people from Ohio and Philly, and their tireless, fearless work is a huge part of why so many people are mourning its demise now. @satansjacuzzi.bsky.social and @leximcmenamin.com you will always be famous

being a freelance journalist in 2025 is watching evil rich people kill off yet another beloved publication and realizing you should probably pitch an essay about said death of said publication because rent is still due

Meanwhile, read “Fight Like Hell” by Kim Kelly, until morale improves.

Long live Guilloteen Vogue

Condé Nast finally achieved its dream of wrecking Teen Vogue and killing its politics section. www.thecut.com/article/teen...

Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is.

It’s truly scary how few mainstream publications are willing to publish working class voices and perspectives (let alone leftist ones), and every one we lose is yet another blow to the fragile hope for a better world

Lex did such incredible work under extraordinarily difficult working conditions, and it’s an absolute outrage that this is happening to them and the other good folks who got got today

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

chat am I cooked www.vogue.com/article/teen...

brb outta town working on my new book project

being in love rules so hard

happy Halloween—enjoy this next entry in Protean’s tradition: we have Kim Kelly once again exploring more fascinating and macabre historical narratives, and making the case that we still show just as much ghoulish disrespect to human values and our fellows to this day.

This Halloween, Kim Kelly digs into the history of medical graverobbing and desecration for profit—a long-dead symptom of the heedless cruelty of centuries past. Right? Surely nothing so grotesque could still take place in our enlightened era. proteanmag.com/2025/10/31/r...

i really like the turn this piece takes in its final third. unexpected, yet so apt.

My favorite Halloween tradition is writing a spooky history essay for @proteanmag.com, and 2025’s is a good one. This time, we’re heading back to the graveyard. Bring a shovel. proteanmag.com/2025/10/31/r...

happy mischief night ✨

In the mood for "a book about labor unions"? We suggest Fight Like Hell by @kimkelly.bsky.social. #AskALibrarian

“Why do people have to live outside? Why?”

I genuinely have no idea how my sweetie and I are going to afford health insurance now, but he especially can’t go without. He works on a farm and is always getting hurt…

Dropping in mailboxes now: @kimkelly.bsky.social on the American narcissus @sarahlazare.bsky.social on deadly uranium @ajamonet.bsky.social on art, Maroons & love @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social on the campaign trail w/ Mamdani Cover: @mollycrabapple.bsky.social & Rachel K. Dooley inthesetimes.com

Lots of lovely folks want to cook for neighbors, fill community fridges during SNAP shutdown but are intimidated. A mutual aid group in Flatbush, Brooklyn has been feeding 80+ people every single week for a year and a half or so now. Nobody is born knowing how to cook for 80, so here's our guide!

when it comes to Confederate statues, you gotta melt the shit down or otherwise fuck it up so badly it cannot be repaired bc if there is even a possibility that it can be restored?? these motherfuckers are gonna put it right back up at the earliest opportunity

met a baby

"Given his own degrees from Princeton and Harvard, and his network television career, some may have wondered how Hegseth ended up claiming to speak for regular people." @kimkelly.bsky.social on the handsome, hollow and obsessed with aesthetics, Pete Hegseth. inthesetimes.com/article/amer...

spotted in my friend’s witchy oddities store in Chicago 👻

Love when a CEO undermines the work that their company produces www.theguardian.com/business/202...

when we stopped at a gas station somewhere in rural Indiana earlier today, the women’s bathroom was closed so I went to use the men’s. the store manager ran over and frantically said women “aren’t allowed” to use that one—“we got a ticket last month.” what kinda piss fuckery is going on in Indiana

finally made it to Terre Haute to pay tribute to the big guy

got to hear Bernie give a talk about the impact and importance of Eugene V. Debs in Terre Haute tonight, good stuff

"This star-spangled Narcissus is restless, ambitious and drunk on power." @kimkelly.bsky.social reports on the background and rise of the morally bankrupt and intellectually barren “secretary of war” Pete Hegseth. inthesetimes.com/article/amer...

rat pie

TODAY: We continue WICKER MAN WEEK with @kimkelly.bsky.social’s spooky Summerisle visit. “Masked figures stared back at us, silently watching… Some of them were animals, and others were humanoid or monstrous, but they were all… different.” flaminghydra.com/my-summerisl...

anyway here’s the possum who likes to come visit us at night

far too many people without tattoos or any connection to the body modification world are out here posting haughty takes about tattoos and tattoo culture for my liking

Pete Hegseth is a modern-day Narcissus: preoccupied with image, extravagantly unqualified for his position yet extraordinarily self-assured, morally bankrupt, intellectually barren and as empty as a shattered amphora. inthesetimes.com/article/amer...

I wrote about Pete Hegseth, that terrible modern day American Narcissus, for the new issue of @inthesetimes.com inthesetimes.com/article/amer...

Thanks to a bunch of wealthy fascists and fascist enablers, *2 million* Pennsylvania residents are officially losing their SNAP benefits next month. That includes 500,000 Philadelphians—1 in 3 residents. The GOP fiddles while our people starve www.inquirer.com/politics/pen...

Silica-related black lung disease is killing more miners & killing them younger. But Trump is refusing to enforce #MSHA's new silica standard that reduced exposure to safer levels. Ending the war on coal has become a war on coal miners. Read @kimkelly.bsky.social www.thenation.com/article/poli...

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.