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Meet Kaley ...
Pop culture isn’t a distraction — it’s a blueprint.
Kaley is a corporate dropout turned writer, long-distance athlete, pop culture enthusiast, and lifelong student of reinvention. Having studied and psychology from the University of Victoria, she’s equal parts observer and participant. A proud Millennial, Kaley is interested in the stories we consume and what they reveal about power, gender, ambition, resiliency and belonging in a culture obsessed with productivity, perfection, and curated lives. Her work lives in the space between analysis and confession, where cultural critique meets lived experience, writing from inside the mess, not above it.
Drawn to all things reality TV, nostalgia cycles, and the relentless pressure to optimize our lives, Kaley treats these spaces as cultural texts—places where our fears, fantasies, and values are hiding in plain sight. Through essays, articles, and scripted screenwriting, she uses pop culture as a lens to interrogate identity, reinvention, and the performance of having it all together. With a focus on pop culture and cultural trends we’re told not to take seriously, her work blends cultural analysis with personal insight -- asking not just why did this land in the collective zeitgeist? but what led to it landing in the collective zeitgeist?
Her goal isn’t to tell readers what to think, but to help them notice what they’ve already been absorbing. It’s where our values leak out, where identity gets rehearsed, and where we quietly learn what we’re allowed to want, fear, and become.
Just like her writings, her life off the page has been just as nonlinear.
Kaley, as seen running a race in 2018. (marathon-photos.com)
Despite completing two marathons, and numerous half marathons, Kaley didn’t start her running journey until adulthood—and certainly not as an athlete. A car accident in 2014 sidelined her for nearly two years and forced a reckoning with her health, identity, and the life she was rebuilding. That disruption became a turning point. She rebuilt her body, redefined her career, and laced up for her first solo race—a half marathon that marked the start of a new chapter.
Picking up where her education left off, Kaley’s work explores the often overlooked and under-talked-about corners of culture and society, with a particular love for pop culture as both a mirror and a megaphone. She writes about what we consume, why it matters, and how stories shape the way we see ourselves. When Kaley’s not writing, she’s usually running along Vancouver’s seawall, escaping to the North Shore Mountains, or watching something she’ll inevitably unpack later—probably with too many tabs open.
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