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Baltimore Book Festival

Melissa Gira Grant presents “Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work” at the Baltimore Book Festival, as part of The Radical Bookfair Pavilion hosted by Red Emma’s. Free. More information.

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The End of the American Red Light District

The history of the American red light district is quite brief – from railroad signal lights to hotel bathroom selfies – and clouded in myth. Soon it may be lost. In this talk, journalist Melissa Gira Grant (author of Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work) will reconsider how communication technologies shape sex-for-sale, proposing […]

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Woodhull Sexual Freedom Summit

Roundtable discussion and signing as part of the Woodhull Sexual Freedom Summit Authors’ Roundtable. Registration required. More information.

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Playing the Whore / University of London Union

With the English Collective of Prostitutes. More information. Free.

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Melissa Gira Grant and Glasgow University Feminists

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Sex Workers Need Rights, Not Rescue

In conversation with Georgina Voss, hosted by The Brighton and Sussex Sexualities Network (BSSN). More information. Free.

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Playing the Whore / New York Return

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The Myths Around Selling Sex / Edinburgh University Feminists

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Playing the Whore / Conway Hall’s Ethical Society

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Sunday Papers Live

“The broadsheets brought to life.” More information and tickets.

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Melissa Gira Grant

Melissa Gira GrantMelissa Gira Grant is a staff writer covering justice at The New Republic. She is the author of Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work (Verso). She was a senior staff writer at The Appeal, as well as a contributing writer at the Village Voice and Pacific Standard. Her feature reporting has been published by BuzzFeed News and the Guardian, and her commentary and criticism has appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, Bookforum and The New York Review of Books. Her essays are collected in Best Sex Writing, The Feminist Utopia Project, and Where Freedom Starts: Sex Power Violence #MeToo. She lives in New York.

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