How Gina Martin fought to make upskirting illegal
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
For the start of 2023, Sky News Daily podcast host Niall Paterson is asking people from across politics, entertainment, and sport how they would use three wishes to change the world, their country, and their lives.
On this episode, gender equality campaigner and author Gina Martin tells Niall about her case against upskirting, and her belief that activism won’t work if we don’t fight for a liveable climate.
This episode contains references to sexual assault and stalking. If that's not something you feel you can listen to right now, you can find other episodes of the Daily on our feed.
Producers: David Chipakupaku and Alys Bowen
Junior Producer: Jada-Kai Meosa John
Editor: Paul Stanworth and Philly Beaumont
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast contains references to sexual assault and stoking. If that's something you don't feel like |
| 0:05.0 | listening to, you can choose another episode from our feed. Just search for Sky News Daily, wherever you get your |
| 0:10.4 | podcasts. If I could give you three wishes, what would they be? Everlasting life, perhaps, never-ending |
| 0:20.1 | happiness, or maybe just enough money to |
| 0:22.8 | forget the cost of living. I ask you this because, for the next few episodes, well, we're doing |
| 0:27.6 | things a little differently here on the daily. To start 2023, we've gathered a few names you |
| 0:32.9 | might recognise from across sport, politics and entertainment who each have different dreams for their |
| 0:39.0 | future. I want to find out how they'd use their three wishes to change the world, their country |
| 0:44.6 | and their own lives. And most crucially, why? I'm Neil Patterson, and this is the Sky News Daily. |
| 0:57.0 | The cultural conversation hasn't changed as much as we like to say it has. |
| 1:01.3 | They want to shrink me and they want to shrink women and femmes do this work. |
| 1:04.6 | They want to make us scared because we are rocking the boat and we're putting our heads |
| 1:07.5 | above the parapet and we're demonstrating our autonomy and people |
| 1:11.3 | are quite afraid of women with autonomy over their bodies. Picture the scene. You're at a festival |
| 1:15.9 | with your sister seeing your favourite band in the world. It's worn and you're hoping to make a cherished |
| 1:21.3 | memory. But then something happens and that day becomes memorable for totally different reasons. |
| 1:28.3 | Gina Martin was in this exact position, watching the killers with her sister when she was upskirted. |
| 1:35.3 | A phone was placed under her skirt and a photo was taken of her crotch from below. |
| 1:41.3 | But when she went to police she was told there was nothing they could do. |
| 1:45.5 | It turned out that what happened to her wasn't a specific offence in England and Wales. |
| 1:52.2 | And so, Gina went about trying to change that. And in 2019, her campaign to make upskirting illegal |
| 1:58.6 | became law as part of the government's wireism act. |
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