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Announcing SALVO
My new heavy metal newsletter, and the official closure of this blog
Mar 21, 2024
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Kim Kelly
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July 2021
Pre-order my book, 'FIGHT LIKE HELL: The Untold History of American Labor'
FIGHT LIKE HELL is out 4/26/22 via One Signal Publishers,
Jul 15, 2021
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Kim Kelly
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Pre-order my book, 'FIGHT LIKE HELL: The Untold History of American Labor'
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February 2021
Confessions of a Heavy Metal Barbie
Britney was a teenage pop superstar, Gevinson was a teenage fashion prodigy, and I was a teenage heavy metal queen.
Feb 24, 2021
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Kim Kelly
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November 2020
Which Witch?
On the #NotAWitch movement and missing fingers.
Nov 16, 2020
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Kim Kelly
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October 2020
My Granddad’s Bear
For as long as I can remember, there has been a bear in my grandfather’s house.
Oct 26, 2020
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Kim Kelly
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August 2020
On Being Alien
He felt perfectly fine telling a disabled person that their physical appearance reminded him of some weird, creepy, sci-fi beast. Something inhuman.
Aug 21, 2020
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Kim Kelly
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Three years later.
Charlottesville may not be at the forefront of political discourse anymore, but for many of us, the pain and horror of that day has never faded.
Aug 12, 2020
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Kim Kelly
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Three years later.
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July 2020
Our Union Leaders Keep Dropping the Ball on Radical Change
This week, union leaders voted against including Medicare For All in the DNC's platform. What gives?
Jul 29, 2020
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Kim Kelly
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The Quarry in the Pines
It was my best friend's birthday, and all she wanted was to float in its dead water and look up at the stars.
Jul 22, 2020
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Kim Kelly
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Belated July update
It's been a tumultuous few weeks.
Jul 21, 2020
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Kim Kelly
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Some personal news: I'm writing a book!
It's been a helluva year.
Jul 1, 2020
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Kim Kelly
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May 2020
She worked at a daycare in Colorado.
"It was truly as if no one knew there was a pandemic, and we just had less kids for some reason."
May 25, 2020
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Kim Kelly
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