VANESSA GRIGORIADIS
Contributing Editor Vanessa Grigoriadis spoke to icons of American women’s gymnastics—including Aly Raisman, Jordyn Wieber, and Maggie Nichols—about the often insidious, insular world of their sport and the fallout from the predation of Larry Nassar. “There needs to be more positive coaching—not coaching through fear,” says Grigoriadis, whose “Spring Forward” begins on page 92. Her book, Blurred Lines: Rethinking Sex, Power, and Consent on Campus, comes out in paperback this September.
GILLIAN LAUB
“I have been following their harrowing story,” says photographer Gillian Laub of Raisman, Nichols, and Wieber (above, right), the tenacious gymnasts who, following the crimes of Larry Nassar, are working to detoxify women’s gymnastics for good (“Spring Forward,” page 92). “They were just as I expected: beautiful, strong, and brave.” Laub’s “Southern Rites” exhibition—a 12-year…
