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Further To Journalism and the Work of Sex Work

Posted by: Melissa Gira GrantAugust 21, 2015

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Melissa Gira Grant

Melissa Gira GrantMelissa Gira Grant is a senior staff reporter covering criminal justice at The Appeal and the author of Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work (Verso). She has been a contributing writer at the Village Voice and Pacific Standard, and her work has also appeared in the Guardian, the New York Times, BuzzFeed News, the New York Review of Books, and the Nation, among others. Her essays are collected in Best Sex Writing, The Feminist Utopia Project, and Where Freedom Starts: Sex Power Violence #MeToo. She was a visiting scholar at The Center for Place, Culture and Politics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and she has been invited to speak on sex work, media, technology, and politics at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung in Berlin, and the Eyebeam Art + Technology Center, among other institutions. She lives in New York.

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