Work doesn't have to be great in order to dignify it as work. Work just is. It's quite value-neutral. The issue is… — Melissa Gira Grant Commonality Copy Share Image
Anything that is going to be good for sex workers is going to be good for women across the board. Less women… — Melissa Gira Grant Be good Copy Share Image
Once when I told sex workers about my own sex work, it ended up building inappropriate trust with some people. But there… — Melissa Gira Grant Building Copy Share Image
I hesitate talking about a program for change because we're in this moment where no one is listening to sex workers about… — Melissa Gira Grant Activist 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 Ability Copy Share Image
Look at how successful the domestic workers movement has been. But it's different when it's your husband hiring someone. Domestic workers quite… — Melissa Gira Grant Different Copy Share Image
What shocked me was three different anti-prostitution feminists asking me to justify that I had been a sex worker, to prove it.… — Melissa Gira Grant Different 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 Feelings Copy Share Image
Everyone's politics are born of self-interest, particularly around sexuality. We just have to own up to that. — Melissa Gira Grant Politics Copy Share Image
A lot of the political change that could happen is going to be super boring. — Melissa Gira Grant Boring Copy Share Image
I respect people who come forward and speak, but I'm not asking most of the sex workers I interview now about their… — Melissa Gira Grant Intellectual 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 Alignment Copy Share Image
I've always been a writer. I started getting paid for writing in college. Where it transitioned from commentary to journalism was in… — Melissa Gira Grant College Copy Share Image
Looking at the huge number of transgender women of color who have been murdered since the beginning of the year - that… — Melissa Gira Grant People Copy Share Image
We're missing a lot of the real-life stories of what people's work looks like. Those are the people that I want sitting… — Melissa Gira Grant Improvement 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 Balance Copy Share Image
Another sex worker and writer I respect put it this way: she said that as a writer, you're not about pleasing people,… — Melissa Gira Grant Fantasy Copy Share Image
It doesn't service anyone any to say, "This is a terrible violation in any circumstance always," because that robs us of our… — Melissa Gira Grant Ability Copy Share Image
One of the biggest things going on in London, Amsterdam, San Francisco, and New York right now is gentrification. Every major city… — Melissa Gira Grant Attractive Copy Share Image
