Life in the Time of Coronavirus

The Piercing Shop Owner Who Has No Idea If Her Business Will Survive

A series about how this pandemic affects our lives, our loved ones, our work, and our way of life

Kim Kelly
GEN
Published in
5 min readApr 2, 2020

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A photo illustration of a woman getting her cartilage pierced by a professional piercer against a backdrop of Coronavirus.
Photo illustration. Image sources: Eugenio Marongiu/Getty Images, 4x-image/Getty Images

Life in the Time of Coronavirus is a GEN series where we are interviewing people across the country who have

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Kim Kelly
GEN
Writer for

Freelance journalist, organizer, and all-around troublemaker covering labor, politics, and culture for GEN, Teen Vogue, the Baffler, the New Republic, and more.