The Work of Fighting Like Hell: A Conversation with Kim Kelly, Nov. 16

The McGee Lecture Series, sponsored by the Department of Social and Cultural Sciences, will feature Teen Vogue journalist Kim Kelly on Thursday, Nov. 16, from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the Raynor Memorial Library Beaumier Suites.

Kelly will talk about her recent book, “Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor.”

Kelly is an independent journalist, author and organizer. She has been a regular labor columnist for Teen Vogue since 2018, and her writing on labor, class, politics and culture has appeared in The New Republic, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Baffler, The Nation, the Columbia Journalism Review and Esquire, among many others. Kelly has also worked as a video correspondent for More Perfect Union, The Real News Network, and Means TV. Previously, she was the heavy metal editor at “Noisey,” VICE’s music vertical, and was an original member of the VICE Union.