Melissa Gira Grant is a journalist, author, and filmmaker.
She is a staff writer at The New Republic; the author of Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work (Verso); and the co-director of They Won't Call It Murder. She was a senior staff writer at The Appeal, as well as a contributing writer at the Village Voice and Pacific Standard. Currently, she is at work on a new book, A Woman Is Against the Law: Sex, Race, and the Limits of Justice in America (Little, Brown and Company)Featured Work
Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work
Playing the Whore redefines the politics of sex work, placing sex workers at the center of the story. A Village Voice favorite book of the year.
Feature Reporting
Narrative and longform journalism, for The New Republic, The Village Voice, and others.
Journalism
Feature reporting and criticism, from criminal justice to sexual politics.