In addition to her seven books of humorous nonfiction, Kelli is a frequent contributor to websites including Time.com, Refinery29, Thought Catalog, The New Republic, The Frisky, Huffpost Personal, the NPR health blog.Them.us and LadyScience. We’ve included links to a selection here:
PERSONAL ESSAYS
Open Secrets: Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust
Huffpost Personal When My Father Died, I Felt Relieved…
HuffPost Personal: Isolation (Or Not) In The Covid ICU
HuffPost Personal: I Went To Therapy With My Adult Sibling And It Saved Our Relationship
Thought Catalog: I Failed At Being A Nun Because I Had Too Much Self Esteem
Time: How About We Leave the Bellringers Alone
Talkhouse: How Eddie Izzard’s Dress to Kill Gave Me Hope As A Genderqueer Comic
XOJane: (PDF) What My Dead Partner’s Surly Cat Taught Me About Healing
XOJane (PDF) An Open Letter To Principal Maguire, Who Cancelled Her School’s Homecoming Dance For Fear Of Twerking – xoJane
XOJane (PDF): My Last Two Partners Died, Three Years Later, I’m Dating Again
Them.us: My Big Butch Chest And How I Learned to Love It
Curve: The Woman Who Got My Bradys In A Bunch
OXJane (PDF): The Perfect Way to (Dis)Honor Columbus Day – xoJane
Lambda Literary: The Sacred and Profane
XOJane:(PDF) It’s Been Five Years Since the Haiti Earthquake
HEALTH/HEALTH POLICY
ANSWERING QUESTIONS @ SCARLETEEN
PRIDE SOURCE: Pride And Precaution
NPR: In the Hospital, There’s No Such Thing As A Lesbian Knee
NPR: Does Your Neighborhood Doom You to An Early Death?
XOJane: (PDF) I Promise You Can Get A Pap Exam Even If….
XOJane: (PDF) How to Find A Gyn Provider Even If…
NPR: Why Does It Take A Movie Robot to Show What Nurses Do (this piece was picked up by Politico, ScrubsMag, Nursing Today, Med City News, TravelNursing.com)
The New Republic: New Guidelines Are About the Pelvic Exam, Not Pap Exam (this piece was also picked up by Politico)
LOVETOKNOW: Chest Pain in Pregnancy
LOVETOKNOW: How To Do Infant Massage
Autostraddle: Trans’ People’s Health Still Impacted by Housing Problems
DWSYN: Dog Food Tied to Salmonella Outbreak
DWSYN: A Protein’s Role In the Development of Dementia
DWSYN: Why Winter Is Flu Season
From the (best-selling) Boy’s Body Book (Cidermill Press, 5th edition)
Curve: FIghting off the Seasonal Blues
Curve: Melanoma’s Alarming Rise
Curve: In A Bind Over Chest Health
Curve: LGBT Health, Up In Smoke: Five Harm Reduction Strategies
Curve: Don’t Love Your Body? You Can Still Take Care Of It
Curve: Eight Tips To Fight Through Trauma And Get Healthcare
Curve: Helping A Friend Get Healthcare, What Works, What Doesn’t
Curve: Seven ACA Tips Queers Need to Know
Curve: Planning For When You Need Healthcare In A Hurry
Curve: How To Really Help A Sick Friend
Curve: Making Pelvic Exams Easier
Curve: Field Guide to Safer Poking
PERSONAL TRAVEL NARRATIVE
CURVE MAGAZINE-Hail Mary What A Place
EVENT COVERAGE & INTERVIEW
Refinery29: The Beauty of a Floating Library
Lambda Literary: Interview with Marga Gomez, on Persistence.
CURVE: Broadway Backwards, Queers Take Manhattan
CURVE: Kate Clinton: Still Laughing After All These Years
KELLI’S HILARIOUS COVERAGE OF THE 2023 EDINBURGH FRINGE FOR DIVA
Tending to the Spirit of the Fringe
Jumbled Gender & Crying French Kids
FROM KELLI’S BOOKS
How To Survive And Love Nursing School (FA Davis)