Constance Grady
@constancegrady.bsky.social
Senior correspondent at Vox. Culture, books, celebrity, and gender. Miserable people cannot afford to dislike each other.
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Breaks my heart to share this, but today is my last day at The Verge and I am looking for work! I'd really like to stay in video games, preferably in some kind of journalistic capacity but I can do PR/Marketing and maybe even a lil Narrative Design. Please get in touch!
www.ashparrish.com
www.ashparrish.com
Ash Parrish
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January 16, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Breaks my heart to share this, but today is my last day at The Verge and I am looking for work! I'd really like to stay in video games, preferably in some kind of journalistic capacity but I can do PR/Marketing and maybe even a lil Narrative Design. Please get in touch!
www.ashparrish.com
www.ashparrish.com
ESJ really popping off with this one episodes.ghost.io/vibe-shift/?...
The vibes aren't shifting
Why the right-wing effort to change the narrative is already flailing.
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January 14, 2026 at 9:23 PM
ESJ really popping off with this one episodes.ghost.io/vibe-shift/?...
Heated Rivalry is not quite my ministry, BUT I am delighted to have a chance to talk about why male/male romance is so popular with so many women www.vox.com/culture/4750...
Why is America so horny for gay hockey jocks?
What Heated Rivalry and gay hockey smut can tell us about ourselves.
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January 14, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Heated Rivalry is not quite my ministry, BUT I am delighted to have a chance to talk about why male/male romance is so popular with so many women www.vox.com/culture/4750...
My boring take on Marty Supreme is that if the film is going to build two emotional turning points around ping-pong games, it should actually do the sports movie thing of teaching the audience how to watch ping-pong.
January 12, 2026 at 4:55 PM
My boring take on Marty Supreme is that if the film is going to build two emotional turning points around ping-pong games, it should actually do the sports movie thing of teaching the audience how to watch ping-pong.
Once you start thinking about how many pieces of technology were developed to share dubiously consensual pictures of women's bodies, you can't stop seeing it. I wrote about it here. www.vox.com/culture/4747...
Grok’s nonconsensual porn problem is part of a long, gross legacy
Elon Musk claims tech needs a “spicy mode” to dominate. Is he right?
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January 12, 2026 at 2:14 PM
Once you start thinking about how many pieces of technology were developed to share dubiously consensual pictures of women's bodies, you can't stop seeing it. I wrote about it here. www.vox.com/culture/4747...
No Ice rally in DC today
January 11, 2026 at 6:33 PM
No Ice rally in DC today
I'm interested that both MTG and Erika Kirk are aiming to play the public role of "forgiving Christian woman" right now. I wrote about it here. www.vox.com/culture/4744...
Slack
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January 9, 2026 at 8:06 PM
I'm interested that both MTG and Erika Kirk are aiming to play the public role of "forgiving Christian woman" right now. I wrote about it here. www.vox.com/culture/4744...
The first thing I did when I woke up this morning was look up this @joshuakeating.bsky.social piece from last month to understand what happened last night. www.vox.com/politics/470...
Why is the US on the verge of war with Venezuela?
The five biggest questions about a massive military buildup.
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January 3, 2026 at 12:39 PM
The first thing I did when I woke up this morning was look up this @joshuakeating.bsky.social piece from last month to understand what happened last night. www.vox.com/politics/470...
I am interested in the resonances between the fantasy of leaving the country and the fantasy of the trad wife! I wrote about it here www.vox.com/culture/4732...
American women want to opt out
More want to leave the country than ever before. That’s not the only way they’re escaping.
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December 29, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I am interested in the resonances between the fantasy of leaving the country and the fantasy of the trad wife! I wrote about it here www.vox.com/culture/4732...
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"We often talk about the idea of fleeing America and its feeble social safety net as a liberating, progressive act...But the idea of escaping the work-life balance trap has darker echoes in contemporary American pop culture"
Great piece from @constancegrady.bsky.social. www.vox.com/culture/4732...
Great piece from @constancegrady.bsky.social. www.vox.com/culture/4732...
American women want to opt out
More want to leave the country than ever before. That’s not the only way they’re escaping.
www.vox.com
December 29, 2025 at 1:32 PM
"We often talk about the idea of fleeing America and its feeble social safety net as a liberating, progressive act...But the idea of escaping the work-life balance trap has darker echoes in contemporary American pop culture"
Great piece from @constancegrady.bsky.social. www.vox.com/culture/4732...
Great piece from @constancegrady.bsky.social. www.vox.com/culture/4732...
Best! Books! www.vox.com/culture/4723...
The 10 best books of 2025
Our book critic picks the best books of the year.
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December 16, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Best! Books! www.vox.com/culture/4723...
Quite the specific stylistic choice here in C.K.'s final book
December 12, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Quite the specific stylistic choice here in C.K.'s final book
When I was in college I would binge-read Sophie Kinsella books all the way through finals week and into vacation as my reward for all the studying. She understood how to write a novel as light and frothy as a bubble bath. What a loss. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/b...
Sophie Kinsella, ‘Confessions of a Shopaholic’ Author, Dies at 55
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December 10, 2025 at 2:42 PM
When I was in college I would binge-read Sophie Kinsella books all the way through finals week and into vacation as my reward for all the studying. She understood how to write a novel as light and frothy as a bubble bath. What a loss. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/b...
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"He cannot just be president. He also has to be a good TV star. He has to win the approval of the culturati, which is the one thing he will never quite get." - @constancegrady.bsky.social
The Kennedy Center Honors continue Trump’s vengeance on liberal Hollywood
Sunday’s awards exemplify MAGA’s politics of resentment.
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December 8, 2025 at 8:44 PM
"He cannot just be president. He also has to be a good TV star. He has to win the approval of the culturati, which is the one thing he will never quite get." - @constancegrady.bsky.social
Thinking about Bugonia (which slaps) and how much it weirdly reminds me of Homeland s1. Something about the intimacy between two people trying to convince each other of a specific picture of the world, and the audience unable to determine which worldview is correct — there's a lot of power there.
December 8, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Thinking about Bugonia (which slaps) and how much it weirdly reminds me of Homeland s1. Something about the intimacy between two people trying to convince each other of a specific picture of the world, and the audience unable to determine which worldview is correct — there's a lot of power there.
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Loved this @constancegrady.bsky.social joint on Hamnet, Hamlet, and the debate over "grief porn." www.vox.com/culture/4714...
The debate over Hamnet, explained
Is Hamnet great art or grief porn? It’s complicated.
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December 6, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Loved this @constancegrady.bsky.social joint on Hamnet, Hamlet, and the debate over "grief porn." www.vox.com/culture/4714...
I am weighing in on the Hamnet grief porn debate www.vox.com/culture/4714...
The debate over Hamnet, explained
Is Hamnet great art or grief porn? It’s complicated.
www.vox.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:34 PM
I am weighing in on the Hamnet grief porn debate www.vox.com/culture/4714...
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ICE is trying to claim the power to decide who gets to be a part of America, and their ads give us a glimpse into who they believe America is.
Check out the full video at patreon.com/vox.
Check out the full video at patreon.com/vox.
December 3, 2025 at 2:01 PM
ICE is trying to claim the power to decide who gets to be a part of America, and their ads give us a glimpse into who they believe America is.
Check out the full video at patreon.com/vox.
Check out the full video at patreon.com/vox.
“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?”
What a legacy he had.
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...
What a legacy he had.
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter
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November 29, 2025 at 5:41 PM
“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?”
What a legacy he had.
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...
What a legacy he had.
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...
oh we're over clothing trends now, they said. we're really in the era of embracing timeless fashion that will never look dated. buy it for once, buy it for life!
November 22, 2025 at 2:17 AM
oh we're over clothing trends now, they said. we're really in the era of embracing timeless fashion that will never look dated. buy it for once, buy it for life!
This very good take makes me think that on occassions where the penultimate flashback episode is the best of the season (e.g. The Rook, the worst show I have ever loved), it's a tell that the main mystery is bad www.vulture.com/article/penu...
Death to the Penultimate Flashback Episode
Why do so many shows keep making episodes that feel like unnecessary homework?
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November 19, 2025 at 10:02 PM
This very good take makes me think that on occassions where the penultimate flashback episode is the best of the season (e.g. The Rook, the worst show I have ever loved), it's a tell that the main mystery is bad www.vulture.com/article/penu...
I see that pop culture discourse finally hit bluesky, only to take the form of the most annoying form of pop culture discourse on Twitter in 2019.
November 5, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I see that pop culture discourse finally hit bluesky, only to take the form of the most annoying form of pop culture discourse on Twitter in 2019.
A film you've seen more than seven times with a GIF
November 1, 2025 at 9:11 PM
A film you've seen more than seven times with a GIF
back on my bullshit about what bad nerds these people are www.vox.com/culture/4668...
The right is obsessed with The Lord of the Rings. But they don’t understand it.
The bizarre conservative misunderstanding of The Lord of the Rings, explained.
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October 31, 2025 at 3:27 PM
back on my bullshit about what bad nerds these people are www.vox.com/culture/4668...
god when Crispin hits she hits theamericanscholar.org/what-is-an-a...
October 28, 2025 at 3:34 PM
god when Crispin hits she hits theamericanscholar.org/what-is-an-a...