This article has been published to coincide with an episode of Mashable’s new podcast, History Becomes Her. Listen here.
Gina Martin is an activist, campaigner, author, and law-changer.
In the summer of 2017, Martin was at a music festival in London with her sister when she was upskirted by a man in the crowd.
The term upskirting refers to the violating act of taking photos or videos under a person’s clothes without consent in an effort to capture their crotch area, underwear, and genitals. When Martin reported what happened to police, she was told there wasn’t much they could do. What Martin later learned is that upskirting was not legally classed as a sexual offence under the law in England and Wales. So, Martin set about to change that. Read more…
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Source : Gina Martin on the power of activism and how she made upskirting illegal
