Quotes by Melissa Gira Grant

Melissa Gira Grant

A lot of the political change that could happen is going to be super boring.

Boring

Political

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 they threw away at j-school. I studied comparative literature, but the professional vagaries of journalism I’ve learned through other people’s trial and error, and my own.

Journalism

Literature

Thinking

Another sex worker and writer I respect put it this way: she said that as a writer, you’re not about pleasing people, and as a sex worker it’s all about pleasing people. It’s all about creating this fantasy. I still feel like as a writer you actually do have put on a show. You can’t just hand over your notes. And there is a degree to which you are appealing to the reader’s vanity, whether you tell yourself you’re doing that or not.

Fantasy

Over You

People

Anything that is going to be good for sex workers is going to be good for women across the board. Less women in jail is going to be good for all of us.

Be Good

Even at legal brothels, sex workers have very little power and control over their workplace. They might have power with their customers on a case-by-case basis in terms of what they want to do and not do, but they don’t necessarily have a lot of power in how that business operates. There’s this presumption that sex workers are broken people, so how could they engage in something like workplace democracy? How could they even have demands?

Broken

Democracy

People

Everyone’s politics are born of self-interest, particularly around sexuality. We just have to own up to that.

Sexuality

I don’t use “feelings” as a diminutive word. I’m trying to take feelings back. I think of everyone on the internet whose response to everything is: “#Feelings! This is important, this is real, this is significant!” That connects to power, too. Wanting to feel like you have power and control over your life.

Over You

Real

Thinking

I have to do this all the time – choosing what to print based on how it might come back to harm people from whom I’ve earned trust.

People

I hesitate talking about a program for change because we’re in this moment where no one is listening to sex workers about how things should change. So I’m even speaking less as a former sex worker and more as a person trying to see the bigger picture that might be hard to see when you’re doing sex work full-time, or running a social service organization, or doing all the things that a lot of sex worker activists are doing. It’s hard work, and they don’t necessarily get the time to step back and see the whole picture.

Hard Work

Listening

Running

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 meant to keep “obscene” material from entering Canada. The stuff being stopped at the border was almost all lesbian.

Decision

Remember

School

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Different

Done

Enemy

Faithful

Fantasy

Feeling Alone

Feelings

Feminist

Focus

Hard Work

Home

House

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Impossible

Improvement

Inappropriate

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Kind

Listening

Literature

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Men

Missing

Office

Okay

Over You

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Quotes by Melissa Gira Grant

Melissa Gira Grant

A lot of the political change that could happen is going to be super boring.

Anything that is going to be good for sex workers is going to be good for women across the board. Less women in jail is going to be good for all of us.

Everyone’s politics are born of self-interest, particularly around sexuality. We just have to own up to that.

I have to do this all the time – choosing what to print based on how it might come back to harm people from whom I’ve earned trust.

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 meant to keep “obscene” material from entering Canada. The stuff being stopped at the border was almost all lesbian.

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