Melissa Gira Grant

I'm Melissa, and I write on the internet ([a], [b], [c]). I live in Brooklyn, and before that, San Francisco, LiveJournal, and some zines and such.

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What also bothers me about this is that the media tends to only focus and be comfortable talking about women bloggers if they’re a Mommy Blogger, or, if they’ve been involved in prostitution or are sex writers. There is a huge, diverse community of women bloggers, but as far as people the mainstream media outlets are concerned - we’re either whores, ex whores, or mothers. DollyMix: How in the world is the concept of Mommy Bloggers still blowing people’s minds? (I’m not digging it up, but there was a rather strange interview I did in 2006 on the same — how mommybloggers and sex bloggers are comrades)