Intellectual Quote by Melissa Gira Grant

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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