Julie Bindel is a journalist, writer, broadcaster and researcher. She has been active in the global campaign to end violence towards women and children since 1979 and has written extensively on surrogacy, rape, domestic violence, sexually motivated murder, prostitution and trafficking, child sexual exploitation, stalking, and the rise of religious fundamentalism and its harm to women and girls.
Julie has authored over 30 book chapters and academic reports on a range of topics pertaining to gender inequality and abuse, and writes regularly for The Guardian newspaper, the New Statesman, Truthdig, and Standpoint Magazine, and appears regularly on the BBC and Sky News. Julie produces radio documentaries on various aspects of violence and exploitation of women and girls.
She was Visiting Journalist at Brunel University (2013 – 2014) and is now on the advisory board of Byline. Julie’s book on the state of the lesbian and gay movement in the UK, Straight Expectations: What Does it Mean to be Gay Today? (Guardian books, 2014) has been praised for being thought-provoking and challenging. Julie has also co-authored Exiting Prostitution: A Study on female desistance (2014) and The Map of My Life: The Story of Emma Humphreys (2003) and is the author of The Pimping of Prostitution: Abolishing the Sex Work Myth (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
