Melissa Gira Grant
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Melissa Gira Grant | |
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Born | Melissa Grant 1978 (age 42–43) |
Nationality | American |
Occupation | Writer |
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), the extended essay[1] Take This Book (Glass Houses, 2012)[2] and co-editor of the ebook Coming and Crying (Glass Houses, 2010).[3]
Early life[]
Melissa Gira Grant was born in Boston, Massachusetts.[citation needed] She attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst and at San Francisco State University.[4][5]
Career[]
Grant is a former sex worker[6][7] who began sex work[when?][specify] to pay for being a writer.[8]
Grant was a member of the Exotic Dancers Union[9] 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[]
Grant’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.[10] She previously worked as a contributing writer for Pacific Standard, Village Voice, a reporter at Valleywag and a contributing editor at Jacobin.[11] Grant also has written for the Appeal, the Nation, Pacific Standard, the Village Voice,[12] the Atlantic, Wired, the Guardian, Reason, Glamour, Slate, Jezebel, Rhizome, AlterNet, In These Times, Valleywag and $pread.[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
External links[]
References[]
- ^ "Take This Book publication details". Archived from the original on April 16, 2016. Retrieved April 5, 2016.
- ^ "Glass Houses". Archived from the original on February 2, 2014. Retrieved January 11, 2014.
- ^ "Glass Houses". Archived from the original on January 17, 2014. Retrieved January 11, 2014.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "I got into sex work to afford to be a writer". The Guardian. March 15, 2014. Retrieved May 8, 2016.
- ^ "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". nytimes.com. Retrieved January 12, 2014.
- ^ "Post Whore America". Retrieved January 11, 2014.
- 1978 births
- Living people
- American sex workers
- American women journalists
- San Francisco State University alumni
- Sex worker activists in the United States
- University of Massachusetts Amherst alumni