Melissa Gira Grant

American journalist

Melissa Gira Grant
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

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]

Early life

Melissa Gira Grant was born in Boston, Massachusetts.^[2] She attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst and at San Francisco State University.^[3]^[4]

Career

Grant 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

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.^[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

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

^ "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.