Stammering, Sharing intimate images without consent and The art of repairs

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

During lockdown, when we haven't quite had access to the shops we might need, many have turned to 'fixing up' items around the house, and mending our own clothes. With the popularity of shows like The Repair Shop and Salvage Hunters, what stories do our possessions carry, and how can restoration keep them alive? Emma meets Molly Martin, an illustrator, textile repairer, and author of 'The Art of Repair' who runs workshops on how to mend mindfully. More than 70 women in a small English town have had their private, often naked, images stolen and shared online by people living in their community. The indecent images, including some of underage girls, are thought to be taken via hacking or provided by former boyfriends and uploaded anonymously on a website which features 73,000 images of women from across the world. Members of this online forum specifically request and target girls in the places they live in. The victims have reported the abuse to the police who, so far, say they are unable to help due to the current laws. As the town has a tight community, most of the victims know each other and have alerted those they recognise when the images appear. About a dozen of the victims have banded together and setup a group to try and get justice. Emma speaks to one of the women, Ruby, and to Maria Miller MP, who has been campaigning for the better protection against image based sexual abuse. Stammering, also known as stuttering, is a relatively common speech problem in childhood, which can persist into adulthood. Around 1 in 12 young children go through a phase of stammering, and around 2 in 3 will grow out of it. It's estimated that stammering affects around 1 in 100 adults, with women being around 3 to 4 times more less likely to stammer than men. Emma is joined by Felicity Baker, a producer with BBC News, who has been making the documentary I Can’t Say My Name: Stammering in the Spotlight and Mandy Taylor, a former trustee of STAMMA and now a member and volunteer who works to support families affected by stammering.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts
0:05.3	Hello, I'm Emma Barnett and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.
0:10.4	Good morning, I'm going to start today's programme with what should be a personal question,
0:14.3	but increasingly, isn't. Have you ever taken naked photos of yourself or had them taken?
0:20.6	I ask because of an extraordinary story we're covering this morning.
0:24.1	More than 70 women in a small English town have had their private, often naked, images
0:28.9	stolen and shared online by people living in their community.
0:33.0	The explicit photos, including some of underage girls, are thought or provided by former
0:37.4	boyfriends and uploaded anonymously on a website which features 73,000 images of women from
0:43.2	across the world. The law has not and seemingly cannot keep a pace for technology, and before
0:49.5	some of the usual tired conclusions are reached for while the women shouldn't have sent
0:53.8	them or shared them in the first place or even taken them.
0:57.4	Many of these images were stored in their phones that are supposedly private digital albums.
1:03.7	The police's hands are largely tied, as you're here in our discussion.
1:07.1	So my question to you today is, is it time then for us to accept that if you are a game
1:11.4	for a naked photo, either you take of yourself or someone else takes, is it a risk?
1:16.5	Do you have to accept it may end up online, or if you aren't comfortable with that concept
1:20.7	you, we have to accept that these sorts of images can't be taken on digital devices
1:25.4	if at all. Perhaps you could say it's time to reinvest in a film camera.
1:29.4	What are your expectations of privacy around your photos and data? What is your take on
1:35.4	this? And if you have taken naked photos of yourself and you may not wish to talk about
1:39.2	that, but you may wish to. Why? Tell us. And what is your view now you hear what's going
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