Jamie Lauren Keiles

Jamie Keiles grew up in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, where they attended Central Bucks High School West. They graduated from the University of Chicago in 2014 with a degree in interdisciplinary studies in the humanities.[4] He is transgender.

In April 2010, at age 18, Keiles launched "The Seventeen Magazine Project",[5] a blog documenting their attempt to follow the advice of Seventeen Magazine for 30 days.[6] The project criticized Seventeen for promoting a limited conception of adolescent femininity; the project quickly drew coverage from feminist blogs[7] as well as national outlets, including NPR's All Things Considered and CBC's Q, among others.[8] Upon completion of "The Seventeen Magazine Project," Keiles initiated "Hey Mainstream Media",[9] a photo submission project encouraging internet users to air their grievances with mainstream media through the use of handwritten signs.[10] In July 2010, Keiles launched "Teenagerie".[11] Though the site was initially founded as a means of challenging societal conceptions of adolescence, it has since expanded to cover a wide range of feminist issues.[12] In August 2010, Keiles was the subject of much criticism from the conservative blogging community for a critique they wrote on the public image of Taylor Swift.[13] In September 2010, Keiles was listed as #7 on Woman's Day magazine's list of the eight most influential bloggers under 21, behind Bryanboy and Tavi Gevinson.[14]

As an undergraduate at the University of Chicago, Keiles worked for the alternative newspaper the Chicago Weekly.[15]

Since 2015, Keiles has been working as a full-time freelance writer[16] and part-time lecturer.[17][2] Their work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vox, and The Awl.[1][18][19][20] They write about American culture, including subjects like Adam Sandler,[21] the Jewish American princess stereotype,[19] and Coca-Cola.[22]

• Jamie Lauren Keiles in The New York Times Magazine