Dignity for Dead Women

„Feminist Activism and the Media“ was a cooperation between
F*Streik Graz and Radio Helsinki. The presentation from Janey
Starling explored her feminist interventions in the media as well
as her strategic use of it in her campaigning work.


 


Janey Starling is an award-winning feminist activist, writer and
co-director of gender justice organisation Level Up.


She spearheaded the UK’s first media guidelines on responsibly
reporting domestic homicide, Dignity for Dead Women, which are
now backed by all British press regulators and multiple
newsrooms. The guidelines and newsroom trainings, which were
co-created with victims‘ families, are changing the way that
domestic homicide is reported by the UK media.


Janey has since delivered guest lectures on the subject at London
School of Economics and the Reuters Institute at the University
of Oxford. She has also appeared on Ted Talks.


 


Her other media interventions include pushing an investigation
into Facebook’s failure to deal with sexism and harassment on its
platform and successfully pressuring a UK TV station into
dropping plastic surgery advertisements from popular dating show
Love Island.


Janey’s current campaign focus is on ending the imprisonment of
pregnant women. In the last four years, she has successfully used
a media-based campaign strategy to secure mainstream coverage of
the experiences of pregnant women in prison, and revealed
exclusive new data about prisons, in order to shift public
attitudes and sentencing practices in the court system.