From MelissaGira.com:
Melissa Gira (and though the name is as much a tag as a name, the last can be pronounced “gee-rha”) is a writer, sex futurist, and human rights advocate.
She is the editor of Sexerati, the award-winning blog about smart sex, produces The Future of Sex video podcast, writes on sexual education & pleasure for Good Vibrations, and is the co-founder of the sex worker rights blog Bound, Not Gagged. She is also a correspondent for Gawker Media’s Gridskipper and San Francisco Metroblogging. Her work has appeared in print in $pread magazine, in the forthcoming WHORE! magazine, and in the anthologies Best Sex Writing 2008 (Cleis Press) and Dirty Girls (Seal Press).
Melissa is the Development Coordinator and Social Media Consultant for St. James Infirmary, a free community health care clinic for sex workers and their partners, is consulting with them and the Desiree Alliance, Center for Sex and Culture, and the Open Society Institute’s Sexual Health and Rights Project (with the Tactical Tech Collective) in creating peer-based trainings in how to use information and communications technology for advocacy and developing web-based community for sex workers.
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