How Tattoos Tell Our Stories
I used to have a bumper sticker—fortunately, never affixed to my car’s bumper—that read, “tattoos: not just for sailors and whores anymore.” The sex worker-shaming [...]
Articles by Jessica Grey
Sweatpants & Solidarity | Supporting Our Immigrant Neighbors in 2019
Note from Nanea Hoffman: As a Native Hawaiian of mixed blood, the blood of immigrants who may not have been considered to have legal status, and as a human who believes [...]
Sweatpants & Culture | Octavia E. Butler: Hope in Science Fiction
“Question: Octavia?” “Answer: You mean that tall girl who’s always writing?” “Question: Who is Octavia Butler? Where is she headed? Where has she been?” [...]
Sweatpants & TV | Game of Thrones, Season 8, Episodes 1 & 2
First, allow me to apologize: I had a family emergency that kept me away from writing the first episode’s recap last week. In recompense, I present to you a twofer this [...]
Sweatpants & Pop Culture | Happy Birthday, LeVar Burton!
Today, one of my very favorite people in pop culture, LeVar Burton, is 62 years old! Photo credit: @levarburton – All around wholesome human being and total silver fox! [...]
Sweatpants & Equality | Martin Luther King, Jr. Day 2019
Though his 90th birthday fell on this past Tuesday, today is the official observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. This day commemorating the life and work of Dr. King, [...]
4 Fascinating Facts About Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe is one of my favorite authors. The Gold-Bug only encouraged my love of puzzles and codes. C. Auguste Dupin captured my heart before Sherlock Holmes. The [...]
Sweatpants & Pop Culture | Festivus 2018
Y’all. Y’ALL. I don’t know about you but I have had a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad 2018. VERY BAD. I’m way past “there will never be enough booze on this [...]
Sweatpants & Equality | Trans Day of Remembrance 2018
Today, I am honoring those souls so violently taken from this world because of who they truly are. Depending on the agency reporting the statistics, between 345 and 369 [...]
Sweatpants & Pop Culture | Beware the Ides of March!
Soothsayer: Beware the Ides of March. … Caesar (to soothsayer): The Ides of March are come. Soothsayer: Aye, Caesar, but not yet gone. –William Shakespeare, Julius [...]
