Melissa Gira Grant

Melissa Gira Grant
Born Melissa Grant
1978 (age 39–40)
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 Gira Grant was born in Boston, Massachusetts. She attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst and at San Francisco State University.[5][6]

Grant is a former sex worker[7][8] who began sex work to pay for being a writer.[9]

Grant was a member of the Exotic Dancers Union[10] 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.

Work

Melissa Gira Grant is a writer covering the intersection of sex, politics, and technology. She is the author of Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work (2014) published by Verso.

Grant is a contributing writer for Pacific Standard and the Village Voice. Grant has written for the Nation, the Atlantic, Wired, the Guardian, Reason, Glamour, Slate, Jezebel, Rhizome, AlterNet, In These Times, and $pread.[11] She was previously a reporter at Valleywag.[12] at contributing editor at Jacobin.[13]

Publications

  • Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work (2014) (Verso)
  • Take This Book: A History of the People's Library at Occupy Wall Street (2012) (Glass Houses Press)
  • Coming and Crying (2010) (Glass Houses Press) co-editor

References

  1. ↑ "Verso". Retrieved 2014-01-11.
  2. ↑ "Take This Book publication details". Archived from the original on 2016-04-16. Retrieved 2016-04-05.
  3. ↑ "Glass Houses". Archived from the original on 2014-02-02. Retrieved 2014-01-11.
  4. ↑ "Glass Houses". Archived from the original on 2014-01-17. 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. Archived from the original on 2014-03-27. Retrieved 2014-04-04.
  7. ↑ "Waging War On Sex Workers, Zoe Schlanger interviews Melissa Gira Grant - Guernica / A Magazine of Art & Politics". guernicamag.com. Retrieved 12 January 2014.
  8. ↑ "Why we couldn't stop reading Melissa Gira Grant". gawker.com. Archived from the original on 2014-02-01. Retrieved 2014-04-04.
  9. ↑ "I got into sex work to afford to be a writer". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 May 2016.
  10. ↑ "Organized Labor's Newest Heroes: Strippers - Melissa Gira Grant - The Atlantic". theatlantic.com. Retrieved 12 January 2014.
  11. ↑ "Post Whore America". Retrieved 2014-01-11.
  12. ↑ "The New York Times". nytimes.com. Retrieved 12 January 2014.
  13. ↑ "About – Jacobin". jacobinmag.com. Retrieved 12 January 2014.

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