Melissa Petro
Melissa Petro is a freelance writer and writing instructor living in New York. Her work has appeared on New York, Salon, the Guardian, the Daily Beast, Al Jazeera, Jezebel, the New Inquiry, the Rumpus, and elsewhere.
My Husband Paid Me to Be a Stay-at-Home Mom
It was a ludicrous arrangement—but no more ludicrous than this country's appalling lack of subsidized child care.
Getting Out of Sex Work
The sex industry is an undesirable solution to problems, but it’s a solution just the same. Those problems can’t be cured overnight.