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The Startup

How COVID Made Remote Work Possible for Disabled People (And Why It Needs to Stay That Way)

In my mid-twenties, I secured my first nine-to-five office job: a prestigious internship with a reputable environmental nonprofit in…

Dec 4, 2020

How COVID Made Remote Work Possible for Disabled People (And Why It Needs to Stay That Way)

Dec 4, 2020

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OneZero

The Cost of Broadband is Too Damn High

For many disabled and low-income people, the internet is a critical utility that remains unaffordable and largely unregulated

Jun 29, 2021

The Cost of Broadband is Too Damn High

Jun 29, 2021

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The Startup

What If Part-Time Work Was Full-Time Work?

Disclaimer: I wrote this piece last year on commission for an upstart magazine that shuttered before it could go to print. I shopped it…

Jul 14, 2020

What If Part-Time Work Was Full-Time Work?

Jul 14, 2020

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Age of Awareness

#TheDisabledorTheDow? What the COVID-19 Pandemic Reveals About Ableism in America

I was born with a really severe case of club foot — the kind of case that required several surgeries as an infant and wearing a cast for…

Mar 25, 2020

#TheDisabledorTheDow? What the COVID-19 Pandemic Reveals About Ableism in America

Mar 25, 2020

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GEN

The Perils of Reporting While Female

Trolls, death threats, and constant harassment — the risky business of being a woman journalist in the social media era

Jul 31, 2019

The Perils of Reporting While Female

Jul 31, 2019

You’re not even making sense.

May 15, 2019

May 15, 2019

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Human Parts

The Story My Male Editors Kept Killing

While women have made strides in media and publishing, it seems we’re still often subject to the whims of men

May 13, 2019

The Story My Male Editors Kept Killing

May 13, 2019

The Burden of Invisible Illness

Just because I don’t look disabled doesn’t mean I’m not

Dec 17, 2018

The Burden of Invisible Illness

Dec 17, 2018

Being Polite is a Privilege: What (White) Liberal Gatekeepers Need to Know

It often begins like this: I run into an issue with an authority figure who is a gatekeeper to a service or safety net I need to survive…

Dec 11, 2018

Dec 11, 2018

Immigration Isn’t What’s Threatening My Ability to Thrive in America. Capitalism Is.

Starting this summer when the Trump administration put its “zero tolerance” pilot program regarding immigration to work along the Mexican…

Oct 17, 2018

Immigration Isn’t What’s Threatening My Ability to Thrive in America. Capitalism Is.

Oct 17, 2018

Laura Kiesel

Laura Kiesel

Writer w/bylines in the Atlantic, Guardian, Salon, Vice, Politico, etc., covering feminism, sustainability, health. My Patreon is @ https://bit.ly/2YrfCPA

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