#114 Gina Martin: On Changing The Law On Upskirting

Ctrl Alt Delete

emma gannon

Authors, Wellbeing, Arts, Books, Social Media, Creativity

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Gina Martin is a writer and activist in London and currently campaigning to change the law around "upskirting", the act of someone taking a photo up someone's skirt.

Gina recently partnered with Refinery 29 UK and created the hashtag #stopskirtingtheissue. In a nutshell, Gina was watching The Killers perform at a music festival last summer, when two guys kept hitting on her and wouldn't take no for an answer. After this happened and after she told the police, she later learned that taking pictures up skirts is not legally classed as a sexual offence under UK law.

Taken from Refinery29UK: "Martin threw herself into research and found out that there is no specific legislation against upskirting. Upskirting is already illegal in Scotland after the law was changed by the Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act 2009. But, under the Sexual Offences Act 2003—a law which pertains to the whole UK—upskirting is not considered a sexual offence."

In this episode we discuss how to start a campaign from scratch, the power spreading the word on social media, small acts of activism and how the people around you really matter.

A favourite quote from this episode: “I can sound pushy, I can sound bossy, I can sound like I’m being cheeky, but at the end of the day I’m trying to change the law.”

If you were inspired by this episode PLEASE do sign the petition to make this illegal under the Sexual Offences Act of 2003: https://www.thepetitionsite.com/en-gb/takeaction/887/239/401/

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	This episode of Control-Or Delete is sponsored by King Fisher, the company behind
0:05.0	recognizable home improvement brands such as B&Q and Screw Fix, who help make better homes
0:10.4	accessible for everyone. And who, by the way, doesn't love a pop down to be in queue? I definitely do.
0:16.0	Kingfisher have recently partnered with Google Cloud, a collaboration that together will support and prepare for retail's next digital age.
0:24.3	From infrastructure to data analytics, they are looking for the right people to help them succeed,
0:29.8	and that could be you.
0:31.2	They're looking for tech professionals interested in software engineering, data
0:35.0	analytics, data science, e-commerce and much more. They also have a range of brilliant benefits,
0:41.0	competitive salaries, private health care for the family, and an outstanding pension scheme.
0:46.0	So if you're interested, go to careers. Kingfisher.com today to find out more about their tech and digital roles. Thank you so much to King Fisher
0:55.3	for sponsoring this podcast.
0:56.7	Hello and welcome back to Control-ot Delete. This episode is with Gina Martin. She is a writer and activist in London,
1:04.6	and she is currently campaigning to change the law
1:07.0	around upskirting.
1:09.0	If you don't know what upskirting means,
1:10.8	it is the act of someone taking a photo up someone's skirt. It's something
1:15.2	that I already thought was against the law until I started following Gina's campaign
1:19.2	and realizing that it is a gray area which doesn't necessarily mean it's a criminal offense.
1:24.4	Jean has been doing a lot of press, she's been doing you know big-time TV shows like the
1:29.2	BBC, she's had so much press around this and it all started from a viral post that she put on Facebook.
1:36.7	She also happens to be the sister of a good friend of mine called Stevie Martin who was actually number 12 on this podcast. So if you fancy listening to Stevie's
1:45.9	episode after this one, do go and check that out. Gina recently partnered with Refinery 29 and
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from emma gannon, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of emma gannon and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.