The Gray Issue
Behind the Scenes: The Gray Issue's Amazing Technicolor Dreamcover
In the pages of our new fall issue, Gray, we celebrate the spectrum of thinking in the gray areas—where complex logic is key to understanding nuanced issues “from science to sports to smut,” as we wrote in our call for pitches. What you see here is the... Read more »
Laughing It Off: What Happens When Women Tell Rape Jokes?
When the oppressed joke about their oppression, different rules apply.
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Back in Black: Can Hollywood’s New Black List Change the Industry?
It’s more than just a wish list. It’s an insight into the workings of powerful entertainment circles and a harbinger of what we can expect to see in both movie theaters and the pop culture zeitgeist.
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Safe Words: The history of anti-abuse activism in BDSM
This article appears in our 2013 Fall issue, Gray. Subscribe today!
For years I would jokingly explain to my confused, nonkinky friends that the site FetLife “is just Facebook for us perverts.” Then, in the summer of 2012, I began seeing FetLife’s name in the headlines of blogs that for the... Read more »
Helen Thomas, Off the Record: A Few Opinions from the First Lady of the Press
Helen Thomas had come of age at a time when the thought of a little girl growing up to be a newspaperwoman was unimaginable.
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