Melissa Gira Grant

Melissa Gira Grant is a senior reporter at The Appeal and the author of Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work (Verso). She has covered sex work and human trafficking for the Village Voice, The Nation, and Pacific Standard, among other publications.

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Public Eye

Beyond Strange Bedfellows

How the “War on Trafficking” Was Made to Unite the Left and Right

The prevailing narrative about “human trafficking” was shaped by a relatively small group of political influencers on the Right who had dreams of organizing Christian activists around winnable social issues.

Melissa Gira Grant

August 13, 2018

Anti-LGBTQ & Anti-Transgender
Misogyny & Male Supremacism
criminalization
Gender & Repro Justice

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