A series about how this pandemic affects our lives, our loved ones, our work, and our way of life — Life in the Time of Coronavirus is a GEN series where we are interviewing people across the country who have had their lives upended or are experiencing the stress of the unknown. Starr Ellis, 33, is the owner of Nine Moons Piercing, a body piercing and fine jewelry studio in…

Without key endorsements, these union workers are going their own way as the Nevada caucus looms — When Ana Barrientos walked into the headquarters of Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Nevada Local 1107, located just off the Las Vegas Strip, she’d already had a long day. It was 5 p.m; an hour earlier, she had a meeting at the Culinary Workers headquarters a few blocks away; before…

When your family believes in the religion you’ve disavowed — “Wait a sec, babe,” I said, catching his hand as he made to carry on walking past the pale, glowing altar. “I want to light a candle for my grandpa.” Notre Dame towered above the two of us—two small, dark figures among a sea of worshippers, tourists, and believers of…

Alt-right rallies are failing, thanks to anarchist action — so why aren’t we hearing about it? — O n August 12, exactly one year after the Unite the Right neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Virigina, left over a dozen of people injured and one 32-year-old woman, Heather Heyer, dead, white nationalists, white supremacists and members of the “alt-right” marched on Washington, D.C. To be more specific, about 20…

I spoke to the Iron Man founder for Iron Fist Magazine back in 2013. He was wonderful. May he rest in power. We’ve been trying to schedule this interview for weeks, and finally, after volleying times back and forth and wading through an email chain as long as Paul Speckmann’s…

Exploring the slippery concept of a “final resting place” in 2018 — A death nearly always hurts someone, and those in mourning tend to grasp onto whatever small comforts they can to ease the pain. One such panacea about laying a loved one to rest is that, barring some kind of zombie apocalypse situation, we can be reasonably certain that they’ll still…

Hello! My name is Kim Kelly, and I’m a writer. You may be familiar with my work already, either through Noisey (where I’m currently an editor) or from my multitudinous other writing endeavors (which have run the gamut from The Guardian and Rolling Stone to Salon and NPR to Terrorizer…

This year, I hit a bunch of professional goals, made a bunch of new friends, traveled to 6 countries, got hired on full-time at a giant global media company, started a zine, continued loving my sweet dude and my giant cat, started volunteering at a museum, saw Willie Nelson (and…