Almost everything I've learned about journalism has been from other friends who are journalists, taking advantage of the money I hope they… — Melissa Gira Grant Copy Share Image
It's actually not much of a risk to say, "I don't think we should put sex workers in jail." That's a decent,… — Melissa Gira Grant Copy Share Image
We hear from sex workers who have through their own volition become media figures, or have despite their own wishes become media… — Melissa Gira Grant Copy Share Image
I don't use "feelings" as a diminutive word. I'm trying to take feelings back. I think of everyone on the internet whose… — Melissa Gira Grant Copy Share Image
Most of the time, people are not actually concerned with prostitution and sex work. They're concerned about seeing people who they think… — Melissa Gira Grant Copy Share Image
Most people aren't encouraged to think of their labor as very valuable. We usually think of it as the necessary thing we… — Melissa Gira Grant Copy Share Image
I think sex work gets over-mystified and overcomplicated because it's about sexuality, and women's sexuality in general. What strikes me when I… — Melissa Gira Grant Copy Share Image
I think the anti-prostitution feminists need to do some consciousness-raising amongst themselves about their feelings. But that's a different political activity. Asking… — Melissa Gira Grant Copy Share Image
This is the hardest thing to articulate: I think that there is a legitimate space for sexual commerce. And like every other… — Melissa Gira Grant Copy Share Image
We aren't defined by our work. People think if you over-identify with your work, then that must mean you're giving over too… — Melissa Gira Grant Copy Share Image
I went to college in Amherst and lived in Northampton for many years and we had our quaint little feminist sex toy shop that… — Melissa Gira Grant Copy Share Image
We hear from sex workers who have through their own volition become media figures, or have despite their own wishes become media figures. Like… — Melissa Gira Grant Copy Share Image
One person was basically saying that feminists aren't interested in criminalizing prostitutes, that they don't want to do that. I responded that whether or… — Melissa Gira Grant Copy Share Image
Our feelings alone don't change what happens with the police, what happens in jail, what happens when someone tries to go to the welfare… — Melissa Gira Grant Copy Share Image
It's actually not much of a risk to say, "I don't think we should put sex workers in jail." That's a decent, normal thing… — Melissa Gira Grant Copy Share Image
In the current situation with criminalization, we've created situations where sex workers have very little power and control over their lives. Increasing one group… — Melissa Gira Grant Copy Share Image
Almost everything I've learned about journalism has been from other friends who are journalists, taking advantage of the money I hope they don't think… — Melissa Gira Grant Copy Share Image
I remember being in high school in the '90s, and even then somehow hearing about the the Canadian Supreme Court's Butler decision which was… — Melissa Gira Grant Copy Share Image
Kristin Gwynne has been writing some great stuff about the sexually violent element of "stop-and-frisk." This isn't just "turn out your pockets." This is… — Melissa Gira Grant Copy Share Image
In New Zealand, sex workers are regarded as workers, as people who are members of the community, people who have a stake in the… — Melissa Gira Grant Copy Share Image
Even at legal brothels, sex workers have very little power and control over their workplace. They might have power with their customers on a… — Melissa Gira Grant Copy Share Image
I've moved away from writing about and describing actual experiences of sex work, whether mine or anybody else's, because the culture is obsessed with… — Melissa Gira Grant Copy Share Image
