Melissa Gira is a writer, new media artist, and sex worker and human rights activist. Her published work has appeared in $pread magazine, and has been performed live, sometimes nude, and most always by webcam and laptop in her most recent home-cities, San Francisco and New York. Melissa teaches technology skills workshops for sex workers, and lectures on sex workers’ labor, civil, and human rights at a number of colleges and universities, and with community-based queer and interfaith organizations. She's been invited to speak on human sexual rights at venues as far-ranging the Third Wave Feminist Foundation and the Parliament for the World's Religions.
A little snippet from the blip.tv demo Mike invited us to crash -- how beautiful, to have the sex bloggers (and former sex bloggers, sure) up there to represent, and show how we're up on the video edge. On the mic: Mike, Casey on Galacticast, Violet on Geek Entertainment TV, and Deena of blip.(PS: First non-mobile phone videoblog post ever. Well, since the first whorecast 001, which has a secret 'limited edition' video because the shotgun mic on my DV cam is so damn good I had to start with th...
Testing this sweet sweet baby out (and I can call her baby because I can) on the floor at the Expo and chatting up the Nokia guys about why Euro shows are sexier and targeted mobile marketing for citified sex workers.