There is a major uptick in the media about fear of trafficking, says melissa gira grant, the author of playing the whore. Melissa gira grants playing the whore is a deceptive book. Based on ten years of writing and reporting on the sex trade, and grounded in her experience as an organizer, advocate, and former sex worker, playing the whore dismantles pervasive myths about sex. Im a writer and freelance journalist covering sex, tech, and politics, in the streets and everywhere else. Work jacobin and millions of other books are available for amazon kindle. Melissa gira grant twitter melissa gira grant is a journalist and the author of playing the whore. The work of sex work is a slender, not narrow, book, though gira grant admits that her scope of investigation is, in fact, limited. Every day, melissa gira grant and thousands of other voices read. Im a columnist for pacific standard, and my reporting and commentary has appeared in the nation, the new york times, buzzfeed, vice, wired, the guardian, the.
She is author of playing the whore verso, 2014, the extended essay take this book glass houses. What do you believe your new book adds to the debate. She was a senior staff writer at the appeal, as well as a contributing writer at the village voice and pacific standard. A brief criminal history of the mask the new republic. A former sex worker and activist, grants writing takes the media to task for. Melissa gira grant born 1978 in boston, massachusetts is an american freelance journalist.
Brooklyn journalist melissa gira grant is one of the voices who has emerged in the last few years to defend the rights and dignity of people working in all. But there have been events now like covering the protests against backpage at the village voice where ive talked to sex workers. Playing the whore by melissa gira grant nomadic press. Melissa gira grant is a writer who tells true stories about the value of sex. No, i will not stop having feelings about womens lives. The work of sex work, demands, in its headline, that we put our feelings aside and look at prostitution as a labour issue a strange demand to make of human beings when thinking about other human beings. An admission, lest anyone think she attempts to speak beyond her purview. Like shoes you need to break them in before you can begin to navigate what being an other womanwhat melissa gira grant in her new book calls whore stigmameans to you. Im so often frustrated with books on social justice topics that come in slender volumes because i. How internal conflict fuels feminism melissa gira grant. From the 10th annual brooklyn book festival, mona eltahawy, melissa gira grant, and thomas page mcbee talk about the issues of sexuality and gender. Melissa gira grant books and biography waterstones.
In playing the whore, journalist melissa gira grant turns these pieties on their head, arguing for an overhaul in the way we think about sex work. It is an impassioned call to refigure the ways in which the public and the lawmakers conceive of sex work. I got into sex work to afford to be a writer truthdig. As wide ranging as the book is, again and again author melissa gira grant, a journalist and former sex worker herself, convincingly demonstrates that sex. The work of sex work by melissa gira grant at indigo. About melissa gira grant im a journalist and author, covering sexual politics and human rights. Public order is why some people already have ended up in a jail cell for violating new coronavirus measures, crowded with others, without much more than a few drops of hand sanitizer. Playing the whore melissa gira grant 9781781683231. Recent years have seen a panic over online redlight districts, which supposedly seduce vulnerable young women into a life of degradation, and new york times columnist nicholas kristofs live tweeting of a cambodian brothel raid. It confirms the readers assumptions about what it means to be an other women are true, but also that they are constructs. Collectively as a society weve got a whole bunch of tangled, warped intuitions and policies towards the exchange of money for sex. Melissa gira grant a writer and freelance journalist covering sex, tech, and politics, in the streets.
Melissa gira grant does a remarkable job of rigorously teasing these apart and righteously scrapping those she finds wanting. A recent article about melissa gira grants new book, playing the whore. Synopsis recent years have seen a panic over online redlight districts, which supposedly seduce vulnerable young women into a life of degradation, and new york times columnist nicholas kristofs live tweeting of a cambodian brothel raid. Gira grant weaves her way through sanctimony and hypocrisy with wit, eloquence, insight, and a dose of necessary outrage. Latest quotes from interviews once when i told sex workers about my own sex work, it ended up building inappropriate trust with some people. As a journalist, melissa gira grant is quick to point out playing the whore is not a peep show. At longreads, tobias carroll talks to cecelia watson about grammar, language, and her new book, semicolon. The people i would least expect had this emotional inner reaction to something like the.
Melissa gira grant is a journalist and author, covering sexual politics, criminal justice, and human rights. But rarely do dispatches come from sex workers themselves. Explore books by melissa gira grant with our selection at. Im a columnist for pacific standard, and my reporting and commentary has appeared in the nation, the new york times, buzzfeed, vice, wired, the guardian, the washington post, and dissent, among other publications.
Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. The past, present, and future of a misunderstood mark. Join facebook to connect with melissa gira grant and others you may know. Melissa gira grant is a contributing editor at jacobin, and has written about sex and politics for the nation. Her latest book playing the whore dismantles pervasive myths about sex work, while criticizing both conditions within the sex industry and its criminalization. Playing the whore by melissa gira grant, 9781781683231, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. Melissa gira grant a writer and freelance journalist covering sex, tech, and politics, in the streets and everywhere else. Sheryl sandbergs lean in campaign holds little for most.
The laura flanders show streams from this week, journalist and author of the recent book playing the whore. Melissa gira grant is a staff writer covering justice at the new republic. Free shipping and pickup in store on eligible orders. In august 2017, the stop enabling sex trafficking act sesta, which would ostensibly help women and girls who have been victims of sex trafficking, was introduced in the senate. Melissa gira grant, playing the whore growing up i had three basic images of sex work although i didnt call it that then. The work of sex work dismantles the myths surrounding sex work and challenges us to think about sex work in the same framework in which we put other kinds of labor.
Melissa gira grant is a writer and freelance journalist whose work has appeared in glamour, the guardian, the nation, wired, and the atlantic. Melissa gira grant is joining the new republic as a staff writer focusing on justice. A merican journalist melissa gira grant wants to change the way we think about prostitution and sex work. The work of sex work, which comes out from verso in march. This week, belabored talks to melissa gira grant, whose new book playing the whore. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. For weeks, sex workers have been at the heart of two distinct, consequential stories. Laura kipnis, author of how to become a scandal makes precisely clear that a culture that polices, silences and marginalizes women who sell sex is a culture that cares nothing about women. Ix lives two books disagree on campus rape and the stakes of telling stories. She is author of playing the whore verso, 2014, the extended essay take this book glass houses, 2012 and coeditor of the ebook coming and crying glass houses, 2010.
The work of sex work jacobin series by melissa gira grant. The work of sex work melissa gira grant joins us to discuss the labor politics of sex work, and how the movement for sex workers rights has intersected with gay liberation and the broader feminist movement. At first glance, its a slim volume, and you might be tricked into thinking its one of those very basic primers on a subject dressed up in a fancy cover. To submit a correction for our consideration, click here.
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