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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…

7 min readDec 4, 2020

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

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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

6 min readJun 29, 2021

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The Cost of Broadband is Too Damn High

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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…

5 min readJul 14, 2020

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

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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…

8 min readMar 25, 2020

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

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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

8 min readJul 31, 2019

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The Perils of Reporting While Female

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You’re not even making sense.

1 min readMay 15, 2019

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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

7 min readMay 13, 2019

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The Story My Male Editors Kept Killing

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The Burden of Invisible Illness

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

8 min readDec 17, 2018

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The Burden of Invisible Illness

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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…

8 min readDec 11, 2018

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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…

7 min readOct 17, 2018

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

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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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