# Melissa Gira Grant
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melissa gira grant (born 1978) is an American journalist. She is a staff writer at The New Republic and the author of Playing the Whore (Verso, 2014), the extended essay Take This Book (Glass Houses, 2012) and co-editor of the ebook Coming and Crying (Glass Houses, 2010).
== Early life ==
melissa gira grant was born in Boston, Massachusetts.
Texas ICE Killing Takes Damning Turn as Even MAGA Judges Abandon Trump
Big developments on the immigration front: First, ICE killed a 52-year-old undocumented immigrant in Texas this week. ICE’s account was already suspect. But now a representative for the man’s family says that the three other men driving with him—who are likely witnesses to the killing—are getting p…
The Daily Blast: Texas ICE Killing Takes Damning Turn as Even MAGA Judges Abandon Trump
Big developments on the immigration front: First, ICE killed a 52-year-old undocumented immigrant in Texas this week. ICE’s account was already suspect. But now a representative for the man’s family says that the three other men driving with him—who are likely witnesses to the killing—are getting p…
1. Sex Worker Organizing Before FOSTA-SESTA
“SESTA-FOSTA meant that these were no longer singular, discreet events. This was going to now become a trend in federal law that threatened our access to cheap, low threshold advertising as independent workers. In the context of that, it was so hard to have any more faith. It was so hard to not see…
SNEAK PEAK: Let Us Survive: An oral history of sex worker movements before and after FOSTA-SESTA
Please enjoy this exciting preview of an audio project I made with the Hacking//Hustling collective! It's called: "Let Us Survive: An oral history of sex worker movements before and after FOSTA-SESTA."
If you’re here for the weird sex stuff —hello hi! — and don’t know about the significance of the …
2. The Cassandras in the Coal Mine
“All of us were local organizers, moving to a national scale. We did what we do, you know? There's a threat and you get your people together. That that informed a lot of our decisions, because we were all place-based organizers who also were community organizers and labor organizers where, you know…
3. We Really Hate To Say We Told You So...
“We have these big moments as sex workers where we can all come together and agree that this was just an earthquake that we all experienced. To different degrees, but we all experience it together. And then we have these moments as individuals where we experience all the other factors that make us …
4. The FOSTA Effect and the Future of Sex Worker Justice
“Sex working people are unbelievably gifted at figuring it out, but also wouldn't it be nice for folks to not have to do that, not have to always be strong, and just enjoy life a little bit?” — Elizabeth Ricks, legal director of the Trans Life Care Program at Chicago House
Years after passing, FOST…
They Printed a Zine. The DOJ Gave Them 450 Years. (ft. Melissa Gira Grant)
On July 4, 2025, a loosely affiliated group of demonstrators gathered outside
the Prairieland immigration detention camp in solidarity of incarcerated migrants.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) would soon recast the demonstrators as an “Antifa cell.” Federal prosecutors would trump up terrorism c…
The Boing Boing Controversies
This is an expanded, written monologue of the Apotheosis podcast episode of the same name. Podcast music by Nullsleep.
Although the history of Boing Boing paints a picture of geek chic with a thriving community and an almost playful cyber-indulgence, the blog (and those running the blog) is not wi…
The Illegal Trans Woman – Ep. 94: Debunking the HHS Report Linking Trans Advocacy to Violence
To kick things off, I dive into a troubling trend: Democratic politicians across the country caving to Republican talking points and throwing trans youth under the bus for election-season expediency. Later, I am joined by The New Republic staff writer and author Melissa Gira Grant to dissect a junk…
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