Who is the person behind the porn photo? Did she consent to that image being shared and viewed by thousands? What is the impact on her life?
New media has seen an emergence of non-consensual distribution of intimate images. Often called "revenge porn", it is a devastating form of sexual assault for the victims who are degraded by porn consumers and slut shamed by the public.
Noelle Martin tells of her fight to reclaim her image. She shares the journey from victim to law reform activist striving for a global response to this global problem. Noelle Martin went from victim to survivor to law reform activist for the criminalisation of image-based sexual abuse. She fights to dismantle the shame and taboo around women’s sexuality and the hyper-sexualisation of women’s bodies. She has fought for the criminalisation of image-based abuse in New South Wales and continues to lobby the Commonwealth Government to enact specific criminal laws to combat image-based abuse.
Noelle is completing her Bachelor’s degree in Law/Arts, majoring in philosophy at Macquarie University, Sydney. Born and raised in Perth she was the 2010 Western Australia’s Women’s Chess Champion, and has worked as a chess teacher during her university studies. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx
