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8 Jul 2014, 11:53 am
In this talk, Melissa Gira Grant — freelance journalist and author of “Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work” (Verso, 2014) — reconsiders how […] [read post]
8 Jul 2014, 11:24 am
In this talk, Melissa Gira Grant — freelance journalist and author of “Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work” (Verso, 2014) — reconsiders how […] [read post]
13 Mar 2008, 11:19 am
Chronicle piece on the economics of prostitution offers a rule of thumb, courtesy of former sex worker Melissa Gira Grant, to figure the going hourly rate: "If you look at what a lawyer makes (in a particular city), that's what an escort makes. [read post]
10 Aug 2022, 12:08 pm
“The cognitive dissonance of watching the end of Roe unfold online; People learned about the decision on the same devices they’ll use to help those in need circumvent it”: Melissa Gira Grant has this essay online at MIT Technology Review. [read post]
8 Apr 2023, 10:15 am
“Republicans Lose Another Anti-Trans Smear Campaign; The tactic failed again in this week’s Wisconsin Supreme Court election”: Melissa Gira Grant has this essay online at The New Republic. [read post]
7 Mar 2024, 3:10 pm
” Melissa Gira Grant of The New Republic has this report. [read post]
25 Jul 2023, 5:44 pm
” Melissa Gira Grant of The New Republic has this report. [read post]
9 Jul 2023, 6:54 am
“The Straight Man in the Gay Wedding Website Case Is Not the Real Problem; The Christian group behind the Supreme Court wedding website case would rather stoke controversy about the fake inquiry than have us look at how its own story has changed”: Melissa Gira Grant of The New Republic has this report. [read post]
1 Jul 2023, 5:20 pm
” Melissa Gira Grant of The New Republic has this report, along with a report headlined “The Supreme Court Doesn’t Care That the Gay Wedding Website Case Is Based on Fiction; It still feels unnerving to some, even those caught in the crossfire, to see injuries invented wholesale and lies accepted by the highest court in the land. [read post]
26 Mar 2024, 8:15 pm
“Two Supreme Court Justices Favor Zombie Law From 1873 to Ban Abortion; Justices Alito and Thomas just lent credibility to the Christian right’s attempt to revive the Comstock Act”: Melissa Gira Grant of The New Republic has this report. [read post]
6 May 2019, 1:21 pm
"The living, human sex worker gets blotted out by the cultural figure that journalist Melissa Gira Grant has dubbed the 'prostitute imaginary.' This mythological creature is both corruptrix and release valve for male corruption. [read post]
14 Apr 2023, 9:30 pm
" From the New Republic (with shout-outs to legal historians in the text): Melissa Gira-Grant, "Conservatives Are Turning to a 150-Year-Old Obscenity Law to Outlaw Abortion. [read post]
8 Mar 2024, 7:50 am
(Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic) The post The morning read for Friday, March 8 appeared first on SCOTUSblog. [read post]
30 Jun 2023, 6:20 am
Here’s the Friday morning read: The Supreme Court Overturns Fifty Years of Precedent on Affirmative Action (Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker) The Mysterious Case of the Fake Gay Marriage Website, the Real Straight Man, and the Supreme Court (Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic) With Supreme Court Decision, College Admissions Could Become More Subjective (Anemona Hartocollis, The New York Times) What the Supreme Court’s ruling on affirmative action does and… [read post]
11 Aug 2022, 6:44 am
Here’s the Thursday morning read: The cognitive dissonance of watching the end of Roe unfold online (Melissa Gira Grant, MIT Technology Review) Supreme Court Refuses to Fast Track Coinbase Arbitration Dispute (Kimberly Robinson & Lydia Wheeler, Bloomberg Law) Alito’s Call to Arms to Secure Religious Liberty (Linda Greenhouse, The New York Times) Supreme Court faces new pressure to reconsider racist ‘Insular Cases’ (Rafael Bernal, The Hill) Elena… [read post]
20 Sep 2019, 4:00 am
” At The New Republic (via How Appealing), Melissa Gira Grant worries that if the workers lose in three upcoming cases that ask whether federal law protects employees from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or transgender identity, “then all workers could be subject to the stereotypes harbored by their employers about how men and women should appear, behave, and identify. [read post]
15 Jan 2020, 4:11 am
” At The New Republic, Melissa Gira Grant explains that “to understand how the Harris Funeral Homes case,” which asks whether federal law protects employees from discrimination on the basis of gender identity, “got before the high court, we need first to grasp the depressing degree to which the ‘T’ in the still-evolving ‘LGBTQ’ formulation remains in many ways a legal and political afterthought. [read post]
7 Sep 2023, 5:01 am
On the eve of the Supreme Court's decision, Melissa Gira Grant of The New Republic broke the news that she had contacted the individual who had supposedly made the request, and he denied doing so. [read post]
30 Jun 2023, 10:06 am
Melissa Gira Grant, a journalist for the site, called the man who allegedly submitted the request and he claimed it was “the very first time I’ve heard of it. [read post]
17 Jun 2020, 3:58 am
” Melissa Gira Grant at The New Republic points out that “the precedent this decision sets extends beyond employment law, possibly to any law barring discrimination on the basis of sex. [read post]
