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Kim Kelly
@GrimKim
labor journalist & author (FIGHT LIKE HELL, Fight to Win). class war correspondent @inthesetimesmag +elsewhere. booking: @shipman_agency 💌 kimkellywrites@gmail
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    Kim Kelly
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    Aug 14, 2024
    ✨ And now, for my next trick… ✨ This is the book I was born to write. Growing up with a rare disability, I often felt all alone in the world—until I found the sideshow and the disabled performers who brought it to life. I can’t wait to share their stories—and mine—with you.
    Publishers Marketplace announcement: Labor journalist and author of FIGHT LIKE HELL, Kim Kelly’s EXQUISITE STRANGERS, a hybrid of memoir, original reporting, and archival research on the political and cultural history of disabled sideshow performers, following the stories of women who found both empowerment and exploitation in the American circus, as well as the author’s own account of growing up with ectrodactyly, again to Nicholas Ciani at One Signal, by Chad Luibl at Janklow & Nesbit Associates. (World)
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    Kim Kelly
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    Aug 21, 2025
    things were better when the computer lived in its own specific room and you only went in there sometimes
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    Kim Kelly
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    Jan 8, 2021
    The bad takes on “who the Trump rioters are” ignore the fact that most poor and working class people can’t even afford to take off work when their kids are sick, let alone load up on Trump merch and body armor, travel across the country, and spend all day playing fascist putsch
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    Kim Kelly
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    Mar 26, 2023
    When I worked at Vice, my boss was outed as a sexual predator and was reported to HR and they did nothing :)
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    VICE
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    Mar 24, 2023
    That blanket NDA you signed years ago to get severance? It's void now, according to the National Labor Relations Board. trib.al/scWpBsH
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    Kim Kelly
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    May 31, 2020
    The President of the United States has officially declared those who oppose fascism to be the enemy.
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    Kim Kelly
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    Mar 24, 2025
    imagine being given a secret front row seat to the inner workings of an authoritarian regime led by the worst people alive and then hurriedly removing yourself because it’s not “appropriate”
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    Kim Kelly
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    Jul 13, 2021
    Obviously representation only goes so far, but when your disability is on the rare side and you’re used to never seeing anyone else who looks like you, stuff like this feels really nice. Thanks for hiring models with limb differences, @rihanna
    Photo of a woman with a limb difference wearing lime green lingerie
    Photo of a woman with a limb difference wearing orange floral lingerie
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    Kim Kelly
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    May 15, 2025
    “We can officially say that today, May 15th, is brought to you by the letter U!” Huge congrats, @SesameWorkersU! 🌟
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    Miles Kampf-Lassin
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    May 15, 2025
    Sesame Street workers have just voted overwhelmingly to unionize
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    Kim Kelly
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    Oct 16, 2021
    just overheard my boyfriend, who works outside all day, describe me to someone as “an indoor cat”
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    Kim Kelly
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    Dec 4, 2024
    just got off an incredibly depressing and frustrating phone call with my evil health insurance company who actively wants me to die, time to take a big sip of coffee and check the news
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    Kim Kelly
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    Dec 21, 2021
    The Kellogg’s strike is over—and the 1,400 workers who held the line for 10 weeks won! A few new contract highlights: - No concessions (!) 
- No permanent two-tier system
- A clear path to regular full-time employment 
Strikes work!
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    BCTGM International
    @BCTGM
    Dec 21, 2021
    Full statement 👉 bctgm.org/2021/12/21/kel… #KelloggsStrike
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    Kim Kelly
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    Mar 14, 2025
    imo the left really needs to put a lot more effort into organizing veterans, especially now. they aren’t a political monolith, and a lot of them are getting screwed right now.
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    More Perfect Union
    @MorePerfectUS
    Mar 14, 2025
    "I'm a veteran and you don't give a fuck about me!" Anger at DOGE and the GOP is boiling over. Rep. Chuck Edwards just got scorched at his own town hall over his support for massive cuts.
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    Kim Kelly
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    Sep 8, 2022
    Replying to @JeffBezos
    Imagine how people will react when it’s your turn.
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    Kim Kelly
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    Jul 3, 2025
    I should be asleep but can’t stop thinking about a striking sanitation worker I met today. He told me about the time a trash bag full of human shit burst in his face, and he had to spend two days in the hospital to ensure he hadn’t contracted any diseases. He makes $19 an hour.
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