Gina Martin on Upskirting, Changing The Law & Carceral Feminism

All The Small Things

Venetia La Manna

Fashion & Beauty, Arts, Education, Society & Culture, Self-improvement

4.9 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

[CW: sexual assault] Gina Martin is a campaigner, speaker and writer, best known for founding and running the national campaign to make upskirting illegal and changing English and Welsh law by creating the Voyeurism Act. Three other countries have since followed suit. In 2020, alongside Black plus size model Nyome Nicholas Williams and photographer Alex Cameron, Gina helped change Instagram’s Nudity policy, which previously censored larger Black women’s bodies.

Gina’s first book Be The Change, is a practical guide for activists starting out. She’s also an ambassador UN Women UK and advocates for regular people creating change in their communities, with a specific focus on young people, as you’ll hear in this episode.

We also talk about Gina’s campaigning, touching on the less glamorous side that doesn’t make into mainstream media, the lessons she’s learned and the depths of what she’s been through.

Buy Gina's book here

Watch her TEDx Talk here

Find Gina: @GinaMartin

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This episode was co-produced by Venetia La Manna and Holly Falconer and edited by Nada Smiljanic. The music was composed by William Haxworth and the artwork was designed by Alex Sedano.

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0:00.8	This episode is kindly sponsored by the Body Shop. The Body Shop are proudly a B-Corp,
0:06.7	making them one of 3,000 businesses worldwide to have the highest social and environmental
0:12.0	standards for people and the planet. They're on a mission to reduce their impact,
0:16.7	and one of the ways they do this is ensuring they use less plastic, and they do this
0:21.8	via their refill stations, which I absolutely adore. First developed 45 years ago,
0:27.9	the refills are now back in action. You can join their refill revolution and replenish some
0:33.6	of your favourite shower gels and shampoos in your local store. They come in super cute
0:38.8	aluminium bottles, and I just love this process. I'm a big fan. What's more, they've just
0:44.2	relaunched their return recycle repeat scheme in store, and they're partnering with Scanta
0:49.4	Recycle and My Group to help us properly recycle all we purpose are old beauty packaging.
0:55.4	The Body Shop even accept packaging from other brands, so there's no excuse not to get involved.
1:01.1	The Body Shop is a brand I've worked with for a long time, and recently they partnered with
1:05.5	this week's podcast guest Gina Martin on their awesome self-love campaign. This aims to inspire
1:11.7	people to start their self-love journey. If we want to make any positive impact in the world,
1:16.8	we need to start with nourishing our own mental and physical needs, and this is a statement
1:21.7	I wholly support. Check out their website thebodyshop.com for more info.
1:31.6	Hello, welcome back to all the small things with me Venetia Lamanna. If you're new here,
1:36.0	you are so welcome, and if you're old here, thanks so much for coming back. It's wonderful to be
1:41.6	back inside your ears, and I am really, really excited about today's episode. My guest today is
1:48.1	someone I have been chatting to on and off for quite a while, and I've actually been trying
1:52.9	to get her on the podcast for probably about six months, and she did not disappoint honestly. I
1:59.9	find her super inspiring. She is, of course, as you've seen in the title of the episode, Gina Martin.
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