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I’m a writer and freelance journalist covering sex, tech, and politics, in the streets and everywhere else. My latest book, Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work (Verso, 2014) challenges the myths about selling sex and those who perpetuate them. My reporting and commentary appears in The Nation, Wired, The Atlantic, Glamour, The Guardian, In These Times, The Washington Post, Dissent, Slate, Salon, and Valleywag, among other publications, and I’m a contributing editor at Jacobin. I live in New York.

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Work

  • Playing the Whore (book cover)

    Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work

    In my new book Playing the Whore, sex workers' demands, too long relegated to the margins, take center stage.

  • The War on Sex Workers

    Journalism

    Reporting and commentary on sex, tech, and politics.

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    Glass Houses

    Glass Houses is a media label founded on the Internet, launched with the publication of Coming & Crying.

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    Press

    Her work has been hugely influential in how I think about sex work and outright changed my mind on a number of points. She's a must read.
    Gira Grant weaves her way through sanctimony and hypocrisy with wit, eloquence, insight, and a dose of necessary outrage.
    Learn, listen, take heart—this is the real deal.

    Blog

  • Big Brothel Is Watching You

    Saturday, March 08, 2014

    Just in, the BIG BROTHEL IS WATCHING YOU bag to celebrate the launch of Playing the Whore and my book tour, The World's Oldest Procession.

  • 2013: The Work of Sex Work Writing

    Tuesday, December 31, 2013

    I put all my wrap-up energy into this list of the best sex work writing of 2013, so this will be short and sweet. Mostly, because most of my writing this year is in this book, which you can have come March 11, 2014.

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