Jamie Lauren Keiles

I am currently working on The Third Person, a book about nonbinary gender in America, out in 2025 from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

I also run the trans archival history account @sexchange.tbt.

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Select work

On trans surgery (New York Times Magazine)
On credit card points (New York Times Magazine)
On Adam Sandler (New York Times Magazine)
On @MikeGravel and Mike Gravel (New York Times Magazine)
On riding motorcycles at Sturgis (New York Times Magazine)
On comedian Jacqueline Novak and blowjobs (New York Times Magazine)
On A.S.M.R. (New York Times Magazine)
On Philip Roth, Juicy Couture, and the Jewish American Princess (Vox)
On my very first sip of Coca-Cola (Eater)
On viral meme-turned-rapper Bhad Bhabie (New York Times Magazine)
On waiting in line (Vox)
On the Balenciaga Triple S sneaker (SSENSE)
On nudists (Vox)
On the California Superbloom (New Yorker)
On squats (New Yorker)

Keiles is pronounced KAY-liss
I use they/he pronouns