Conjuncture

Kim Kelly on Solidarity as Self-Defense | S5 Ep3


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Jordan T. Camp speaks with labor reporter Kim Kelly about labor history, resistance to the far right, and her book *Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor.*


Conjuncture is a web series and podcast curated and co-produced by Jordan T. Camp and Christina Heatherton with support from the Trinity Social Justice Institute. It features interviews with activists, artists, scholars, and public intellectuals. Taking its title from Antonio Gramsci and Stuart Hall’s conceptualizations, it highlights struggles over the meaning and memory of particular historical moments and geographical contexts.


Kim Kelly is a labor reporter for In These Times magazine and has been a regular labor columnist for Teen Vogue since 2018. Her writing on labor, class, disability, and culture has appeared in The Nation, The Baffler, Rolling Stone, Esquire, The Washington Post, and many others. Her first book, Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor, was published in 2022, and was followed by a young readers' edition in 2025.


Jordan T. Camp is an Associate Professor of American Studies and Founding Co-Director of the Social Justice Institute at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.


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