Melissa Gira Grant has written about the sex trade for Alternet, the Guardian, Slate, Jezebel, Jacobin, $pread, and many others. She has worked for sex workers' rights within the Service Employees International Union and the Coalition of Labor Union Women, on the board of the collectively-owned Lusty Lady Theatre in San Francisco, and as a staff member at the St. James Infirmary, the only community health clinic run by and for sex workers in the United States.
California’s Prop 35: A Misguided Ballot Initiative Targeting the Wrong People for the Wrong Reasons
California voters hold the power this Election Day to decide if many thousands of people convicted of prostitution-related offenses in their state must now register as sex offenders.
When you picture a human rights defender, are they carrying handcuffs? Are they removing you from your home or workplace and directing you into a police van?
In response to increased calls for prohibitions on sex work at a Congressional hearing and intensified campaigns against the internet sex trade, Third Wave Foundation released its position statement on young people engaged in sex work.
In rural Nevada, the possible expansion of the brothel industry has sex workers hoping to be given a central role in governing their own industry, rather than being seen as at-risk women who require protection from themselves.
