Melissa Gira Grant | |
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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 |
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]
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]
