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Melissa Gira Grant

New York, NY

Writer. Founder of Glass Houses, a media label based in New York and on the internet. Publisher and co-editor, Coming & Crying.

  1. The Pacifist Library by Valentina Curandi and Nathaniel Katz

    A mobile pacifist library constructed from discarded and recycled materials offering a peaceful refuge around New York City

    • 22% funded $1,255 pledged
    • 28 backers
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    Post Haste by Elizabeth Ribera

    Bay Area artists reflect on the USPS as analogy for decaying public institutions in the Digital Era.

    • 180% funded $4,524 pledged
    • 222 backers
    • Funded May 02, 2012
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    Cartes Infernales by Ariana Osborne

    A deck of [info/divination/fun] cards and a companion digital reference, incorporating illustrations from the Dictionnaire Infernal.

    • 710% funded $26,042 pledged
    • 447 backers
    • Funded May 09, 2012
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    MAY DAY RADIO ( OCCUPY THE AIRWAVES ! ) by MAY DAY RADIO

    A community radio station experiment.

    • 105% funded $4,205 pledged
    • 121 backers
    • Funded Apr 13, 2012
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    Cooking in Heels: A Memoir Cookbook by Audacia Ray

    Ceyenne Doroshow stirs a pot of love, acceptance, and good eats in her book, shaped by her life experiences as a black trans woman.

    • 157% funded $9,440 pledged
    • 214 backers
    • Funded May 09, 2012
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    "The Future of Work": A cross-country quest aboard the RVIP by Thor Muller & Lane Becker

    A coast-to-coast quest to discover and celebrate the future of work--a video series and traveling event.

    • 101% funded $33,907 pledged
    • 430 backers
    • Funded Apr 02, 2012
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    Shell Game: An Art Show About the Financial Meltdown by Molly Crabapple

    For Shell Game, I'll create 9 giant paintings about the world financial meltdown, then have a gallery show in a faux gambling parlor

    • 215% funded $64,799 pledged
    • 701 backers
    • Funded Mar 27, 2012
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    A Show with Ze Frank by Ze Frank

    In 2006 I created a show called "The Show with Ze Frank." With your help I'd like to start a new show. Same, same... but different.

    • 293% funded $146,752 pledged
    • 3,900 backers
    • Funded Mar 09, 2012
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    American Ecstasy Photo Book by Barbara Nitke

    A memoir in pictures and words of the twelve years I spent working as a still photographer on porn movie sets in New York in the 1980's

    • 129% funded $32,268 pledged
    • 407 backers
    • Funded Feb 24, 2012
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    Björk Swan Dress T-Shirt by Michael McGregor

    This project is to make a t-shirt that simply says, "Björk Swan Dress." The project will launch and be completed in 24 hours.

    • 262% funded $472 pledged
    • 45 backers
    • Funded Feb 17, 2012
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    What Makes a Baby by Cory Silverberg

    A modern picture book about where babies come that it fits for every kind of family and every kind of kid.

    • 689% funded $65,516 pledged
    • 1,954 backers
    • Funded Mar 16, 2012
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    15 Writers' Houses in 15 Days by A. N. Devers

    A 15-day research adventure to collect and document facts, images, and stories about Great Britain's great writers' houses.

    • 127% funded $4,460 pledged
    • 136 backers
    • Funded Feb 13, 2012
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    Home Alive Documentary by Home Alive Documentary

    Follows the journey of the grass-roots, community-based organization Home Alive through its 17-year history in Seattle.

    • 112% funded $3,946 pledged
    • 88 backers
    • Funded Feb 05, 2012
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    Authors, Publishers and Readers of Independent Literature by Willie Fitzgerald

    A festival of independent literature.

    • 277% funded $5,557 pledged
    • 58 backers
    • Funded Feb 15, 2012
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    Launch the Best Music Writing series as an indie press pub by Daphne Carr

    Best Music Writing is a beloved annual publication that collects all the world's best music writing. Help it go indie!

    • 115% funded $17,337 pledged
    • 392 backers
    • Funded Jan 31, 2012
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    Occupy Comics: Art + Stories Inspired by Occupy Wall Street by Matt Pizzolo

    An Occupy Wall Street-inspired comics anthology, created by pros contributing their pay to support the occupiers through winter.

    • 286% funded $28,640 pledged
    • 715 backers
    • Funded Dec 09, 2011
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    Molly Crabapple's Week in Hell by Molly Crabapple

    For Molly Crabapple's Week in Hell, I'm locking myself in a room for five days and covering the walls in art

    • 573% funded $25,805 pledged
    • 745 backers
    • Funded Jun 20, 2011
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    This is Us, Together by Lou Noble

    I'm making a book on relationships, gonna travel the country, interviewing and photographing couples, figure out WHAT MAKES THEM TICK.

    • 120% funded $10,492 pledged
    • 200 backers
    • Funded Jun 02, 2011
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    Up Against The Wall: Sex Workers in Public Spaces by Scarlot Harlot & Erica Fabulous

    Sex worker movies projected through the streets of San Francisco in this guerrilla art event- an adventure in community building!

    • 101% funded $3,043 pledged
    • 32 backers
    • Funded May 17, 2011
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    Bring Psychic TV & The Ballad of Genesis & LadyJaye to SXSW! by Psychic TV/The Ballad

    Help Psychic TV and The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye get from New York to Austin, Texas for SXSW!

    • 100% funded $3,760 pledged
    • 69 backers
    • Funded Mar 15, 2011
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    xoxosms: a documentary about love in the 21st century by Nancy Schwartzman

    xoxosms is a documentary about first love, long distance and Skype.

    • 106% funded $8,538 pledged
    • 188 backers
    • Funded Mar 16, 2011
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    The Sound of Art by Paddy Johnson

    A DJ Battle Record which pits the sounds of art works exhibited in Manhattan (Side A) against those in Brooklyn (Side B).

    • 111% funded $11,183 pledged
    • 174 backers
    • Funded Oct 07, 2010
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    If it happens in Vegas… it's still illegal: performance art for sex worker rights by DesireeAlliance

    Won’t you open your wallet for sex worker rights? Money raised will be used to hold the performance of "If it happens in Vegas... it's still illegal."

    • 113% funded $2,829 pledged
    • 52 backers
    • Funded Jun 18, 2010
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    Headmaster magazine by Headmaster

    Headmaster is a Providence, RI-based queer art publication featuring writing, photography, illustration and men. Lots and lots of men. Men men men.

    • 164% funded $4,926 pledged
    • 104 backers
    • Funded Jun 15, 2010
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    Electric_Sheep Reloaded by Patrick Farley

    Help me resurrect Electric Sheep Comix as a weekly-updating serial comics portal!

    • 105% funded $6,331 pledged
    • 405 backers
    • Funded May 01, 2010
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