Melissa Gira Grant

Melissa Gira Grant
Born Melissa Grant
1978 (age 37–38)
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Nationality American

Melissa Gira Grant (born 1978 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American freelance journalist. She is author of Playing the Whore (Verso, 2014),[1] the extended essay[2] Take This Book (Glass Houses, 2012)[3] and co-editor of the ebook Coming and Crying (Glass Houses, 2010.)[4]

Early life

Melissa Grant was born in Boston, Massachusetts and took classes at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and at San Francisco State University[5][6] without graduating.

Career

Grant is a writer covering the intersection of sex, politics, and technology. Grant has written for the Nation, the Atlantic, Wired, the Guardian, Reason, Glamour, Slate, Jezebel, Rhizome, AlterNet, In These Times, and $pread.[7] She was previously a contributing editor at Jacobin.[8]

Controversy

In 2016, Grant received backlash from the sex worker community for publishing a sex workers story without her consent. Leading sex work activist Mistress Matisse stated "I had hoped that Melissa Gira would reach out and do something to make this right, but it doesn't seem like it. It's very disappointing."

She has also been linked to promoting child sexual abuse.

In 2010, she founded self-publishing imprint Glass Houses Press;[9] the website appears to have been defunct since 2015. Its publications included the extended essay Take This Book, a Kickstarted ebook on the Occupy Wall Street People's Library which attracted criticism from supporters for not producing a promised physical edition.[10] Its other release was Coming and Crying, an anthology of true stories about sex, including Audacia Ray, and other writers. Her book Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work (2014) is published by Verso.

Grant was a member of the Exotic Dancers Union[11] and a board member at the Lusty Lady Theater in San Francisco. Grant worked at St. James Infirmary Clinic in San Francisco from 2006 to 2009. Later she was on the staff of Third Wave Foundation a social justice and feminist foundation in New York. She was a reporter at Valleywag in 2008.[12] She is a former sex worker.[13][14] Gira was one of the first "Web cam girls." In 2006, the San Francisco Chronicle reported she had a daily audience of 4,000 visitors after 12 years as a cam girl.

Publications

See also

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References

  1. ↑ "Verso". Retrieved 2014-01-11.
  2. ↑ "Take This Book publication details". Retrieved 2016-04-05.
  3. ↑ "Glass Houses". Retrieved 2014-01-11.
  4. ↑ "Glass Houses". Retrieved 2014-01-11.
  5. ↑ "Waging War On Sex Workers, Zoe Schlanger interviews Melissa Gira Grant - Guernica / A Magazine of Art & Politics". guernicamag.com. Retrieved 2014-04-04.
  6. ↑ "About | postwhoreamerica". postwhoreamerica.com. Retrieved 2014-04-04.
  7. ↑ "Post Whore America". Retrieved 2014-01-11.
  8. ↑ "About – Jacobin". jacobinmag.com. Retrieved 12 January 2014.
  9. ↑ "About – Glass Houses". glasshousespress.com. Retrieved 12 January 2014.
  10. ↑ "Take This Book publishing update". Retrieved 4 April 2016.
  11. ↑ "Organized Labor's Newest Heroes: Strippers - Melissa Gira Grant - The Atlantic". theatlantic.com. Retrieved 12 January 2014.
  12. ↑ "The New York Times". nytimes.com. Retrieved 12 January 2014.
  13. ↑ "Waging War On Sex Workers, Zoe Schlanger interviews Melissa Gira Grant - Guernica / A Magazine of Art & Politics". guernicamag.com. Retrieved 12 January 2014.
  14. ↑ "Why we couldn't stop reading Melissa Gira Grant". gawker.com. Retrieved 2014-04-04.
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