Melissa Gira Grant (born 1978)[citation needed] is an American journalist. She is a staff writer at The New Republic and the author of Playing the Whore (Verso, 2014), and co-editor of the ebook Coming and Crying (Glass Houses, 2010).[1]
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 Grant on The Laura Flanders Show in 2014 | |
| Born | Melissa Grant 1978 (age 45–46) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of Massachusetts Amherst San Francisco State University |
| Occupation | Writer |
Early life
editMelissa Gira Grant was born in Boston, Massachusetts.[2] She attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst and at San Francisco State University.[3][4]
Career
editGrant is a former sex worker[5][6] who began sex work to pay for being a writer.[2]
Grant was a member of the Exotic Dancers Union[7] and a board member at the Lusty Lady Theater in San Francisco.[citation needed] Grant worked at St. James Infirmary Clinic in San Francisco from 2006 to 2009.[citation needed] Later she was on the staff of Third Wave Foundation, a social justice and feminist foundation in New York.[citation needed]
Writing
editGrant’s writing covers the intersection of sex, politics, and technology. She is the author of Playing the Whore (2014) published by Verso and a staff writer at The New Republic.[8] She previously worked as a contributing writer for Pacific Standard, Village Voice, a reporter at Valleywag and a contributing editor at Jacobin.[9] Grant also has written for the Appeal, the Nation, Pacific Standard, the Village Voice,[10] the Atlantic, Wired, the Guardian, Reason, Glamour, Slate, Jezebel, Rhizome, AlterNet, In These Times, Valleywag and $pread.[11]
Publications
edit- As editor
- O'Connell, Meaghan; Grant, Melissa Gira, eds. (2010). Coming and Crying. Glass Houses Press. ISBN 978-0615384948.
- As author
- Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work. Verso. 2014. ISBN 978-1781683231.
References
edit- ^ "Glass Houses". Archived from the original on January 17, 2014. Retrieved January 11, 2014.
- ^ a b "I got into sex work to afford to be a writer". The Guardian. March 15, 2014. Retrieved May 8, 2016.
- ^ "Waging War On Sex Workers, Zoe Schlanger interviews Melissa Gira Grant - Guernica / A Magazine of Art & Politics". guernicamag.com. February 15, 2013. Retrieved April 4, 2014.
- ^ "About | postwhoreamerica". postwhoreamerica.com. Archived from the original on March 27, 2014. Retrieved April 4, 2014.
- ^ "Waging War On Sex Workers, Zoe Schlanger interviews Melissa Gira Grant - Guernica / A Magazine of Art & Politics". guernicamag.com. February 15, 2013. Retrieved January 12, 2014.
- ^ "Why we couldn't stop reading Melissa Gira Grant". gawker.com. Archived from the original on February 1, 2014. Retrieved April 4, 2014.
- ^ "Organized Labor's Newest Heroes: Strippers - Melissa Gira Grant - The Atlantic". theatlantic.com. November 19, 2012. Retrieved January 12, 2014.
- ^ "The New Republic author page". newrepublic.com. Retrieved January 16, 2021.
- ^ "About – Jacobin". jacobinmag.com. Retrieved January 12, 2014.
- ^ Carr, David (March 17, 2009). "The New York Times". Retrieved January 12, 2014.
- ^ "Post Whore America". Retrieved January 11, 2014.