Jamie Lauren Keiles

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Jamie Lauren Keiles
Born1992 (age 31–32)
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  • Writer
  • journalist
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater Central Bucks High School West
University of Chicago

Jamie Lauren Keiles (born 1992) is an American writer and journalist. From 2019 to 2023, he was a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine . [1] He first gained attention as a teenage blogger in 2010 for "Seventeen Magazine Project," a blog chronicling his attempt to follow the advice of Seventeen for 30 days. [2]

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Personal life

Keiles grew up in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, where he attended Central Bucks High School West. He graduated from the University of Chicago in 2014. [3] As an undergraduate, he worked for the alternative newspaper the Chicago Weekly . [4] He is transgender and uses he or they pronouns. [5]

Career

In April 2010, at age 18, Keiles launched "The Seventeen Magazine Project", [6] a blog documenting his attempt to follow the advice of Seventeen for 30 days. [7] The project criticized Seventeen for promoting a limited conception of adolescent femininity; the project quickly drew coverage from feminist blogs [8] as well as national outlets, including NPR's All Things Considered and CBC's Q, among others. [9] From 2010 to 2012, Keiles was a writer for Rookie. Between 2015 and 2019, his work appeared in The New York Times , The New Yorker , Vox , and The Awl . [1] [10] [11] [12]

From 2019 to 2023, Keiles was a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine . [13] In 2022, he began working on a journalistic book about nonbinary identity in American, to be published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 2025. [14]

On November 3, 2023, Keiles announced that they were leaving the NYT Magazine, after having signed with Jazmine Hughes the Writers Against the War on Gaza letter, an open letter accusing Israel of attempting to "conduct genocide" in the course of the 2023 Israel-Hamas War. The newspaper said that Keiles' actions were a "violation of The Times’s policy on public protest". [15]

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  2. ↑ Norris, Michele (12 June 2010). "Living By 'Seventeen' Magazine's Rules". NPR. Retrieved 4 April 2011.
  3. ↑ Gomeshi, Jian. "Living Seventeen Magazine". Q. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation . Retrieved 4 April 2011. written July 2, 2010
  4. ↑ "Chicago Weekly Article". Archived from the original on 2012-07-07. written January 27, 2012 by Jamie Keyes.
  5. ↑ "Many Revolutions | Jamie Lauren Keiles". The Baffler. 2023-07-10. Retrieved 2023-11-02.
  6. ↑ Haggerty, Meredith (December 3, 2014). "Somebody Think of the (Internet Famous) Children". WNYC. Retrieved 5 November 2016.
  7. ↑ "Living By Seventeen Magazine". Fox. Retrieved 4 April 2011. (page is down but captures exist although they are redirected) written June 24, 2010 and updated June 25
  8. ↑ North, Anna. "Seventeen Project Teen Finds Hope Online". Jezebel.com. Retrieved 4 April 2011. written June 25, 2010
  9. ↑ Keller, Jessalynn (2015). Girls' Feminist Blogging in a Postfeminist Age. Routledge. ISBN   9781317627753 . Retrieved 5 November 2016.
  10. ↑ Keiles, Jamie Lauren (2 April 2017). "Catching California's Superbloom". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2020-10-18.
  11. ↑ Keiles, Jamie Lauren (2018-12-05). "How the "Jewish American Princess" became America's most complex Jewish stereotype". Vox. Retrieved 2020-10-18.
  12. ↑ "How to Optimize Your Flesh Prison". The Awl. Retrieved 2020-10-18.
  13. ↑ "The New York Times Magazine - Masthead". The New York Times. 2011-03-01. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2023-11-02.
  14. ↑ "Going through the archives of non-binary life in America: an interview with Jamie Lauren Keiles". Feeld. Retrieved 2023-11-02.
  15. ↑ Selk, Avi; Chery, Samantha (4 November 2023). "N.Y. Times writer quits over open letter accusing Israel of 'genocide'". The Washington Post. Retrieved 4 November 2023.
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