Melissa Gira Grant | |
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![]() Grant on The Laura Flanders Show in 2014 | |
Born | Melissa Grant 1978 (age 46–47) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Alma mater | University of Massachusetts Amherst San Francisco State University |
Occupation | Writer |
Melissa Gira Grant (born 1978) 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]
Melissa Gira Grant was born in Boston, Massachusetts. [2] She attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst and at San Francisco State University. [3] [4]
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 ]
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]
As editor
As author