WRITING

I'm a freelance writer, covering  sex, technology, politics, and culture, for Alternet, The Guardian (UK), The New York Observer, Jezebel, Slate, and others.

Read my recent stories.

GLASS HOUSES

A media label based in New York and on the Internet. Glass Houses was founded with the generous support of 651 backers and countless supporters online and off.

What's Glass Houses, and why is it a "label," and what do we mean by community-supported publishing?


ABOUT

Hi, I'm Melissa. I'm a writer, live in New York, and I made this website with a text editor for old-times sake. (More...)

TALK

I gave a talk at re:publica in Berlin, taking the audience with me onto ChatRoulette, and laying out some of the perils of publishing sex online.

PANEL

I led a panel at South by Southwest, "The End of Shame" (podcast) on the benefits of living in public. I was joined by Cindy Gallop and Jeff Jarvis. Heather Gold moderated.

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