About Shannon Keating
Hi! I’m Shannon! I’m a personal essayist, reporter, and culture critic, as well as an artist and jeweler.
Before becoming a full-time freelance writer and (re)launching this newsletter in early 2023, I spent nearly 8 years at BuzzFeed News, where I was first in charge of our LGBTQ coverage, then a pop culture and politics generalist for the culture desk. One of my most-read essays at BFN was about meeting my now-wife Lynette on a lesbian cruise.
I’m interested in subjects like the increasingly unclear boundaries between artist and influencer, childism and children’s rights, the fall of white girlboss millennial feminism, intergenerational trauma and abuse, social media, journalism’s identity crisis, pop culture and the failure of the nuclear family, and when your self-worth is tied to your work.