Melissa Gira Grant

Melissa Gira Grant
Born Melissa Grant
1978 (age 36–37)
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] and Take This Book (Glass Houses, 2012)[2] and co-editor of Coming and Crying (Glass Houses, 2010.)[3]

Early life

Melissa Grant was born in Boston, Massachusetts and took classes at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and at San Francisco State University.[4][5]

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.[6] She is a contributing editor at Jacobin.[7]

In 2010, she founded Glass Houses Press.[8] Her books have included Take This Book, an ebook on the Occupy Wall Street People's Library, and Coming and Crying, an anthology of true stories about sex, including Jonathan Ames, Stephen Elliott, Matthew Gallaway, Tao Lin, Tess Lynch, Audacia Ray, and Douglas Wolk. Her book Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work (2014) is published by Verso.

Grant was a member of the Exotic Dancers Union[9] 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.[10] She is a former sex worker.[4][11] 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.

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References

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