Patricia Grisafi

culture writer

Patricia Grisafi, Ph.D., is a freelance writer and editor. Her work has been featured in The Guardian, Salon, Vice, LARB, Catapult, Self, Narratively, The Rumpus, Business Insider and elsewhere. She lives in New York City with her husband, son and two rescue pit bulls.


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Patricia Grisafi

2years ago
MS NOW Opinion

The wild sexism at the heart of the latest Taylor Swift-Travis Kelce smear

Here we are, still invoking Yoko Ono as if time and history haven’t shifted our perceptions of both feminism and men.

2years ago
MS NOW Opinion

The Russell Brand reckoning

If a slew of recent allegations prove true, it seems a sexual predator used an act based on sexual predation to blur the boundary between performance and reality.

3years ago
MS NOW Opinion

Matty Healy exposed the dark side of the Taylor Swift parasocial fantasy

The responses to Taylor Swift’s latest breakup highlight a toxic cultural phenomenon.