Janey Starling

Janey Starling is a domestic violence expert and co-director of feminist campaign group Level Up. She tweets at @janeyjstarling

Debate about woman jailed for abortion is missing something crucial

Britain is rightly outraged by a woman’s imprisonment for abortion. But there’s no such thing as a good jail sentence

By Janey Starling

/ 14 Jun 2023

Debate about woman jailed for abortion is missing something crucial

More women in the police won’t reduce police violence

OPINION: Focusing on the gender of officers is misleading – violence and intimidation are integral to policing

By Janey Starling

/ 28 Mar 2023

More women in the police won’t reduce police violence

Charities are too ‘respectable’ to win change. I learnt the hard way

OPINION: Too fixated on doing ‘good’ and being polite, charities have stopped fighting for social justice

By Janey Starling

/ 20 Sep 2022

Charities are too ‘respectable’ to win change. I learnt the hard way

If I die at the hands of a man, I don’t want a vigil. I want a riot

I went to Ashling Murphy’s vigil this weekend. Every single woman’s murder, whether a teacher or a sex worker, at 3am or 3pm, is political

By Janey Starling

/ 17 Jan 2022

If I die at the hands of a man, I don’t want a vigil. I want a riot

You don’t have to be embarrassed to be vegan

The more welcoming and accessible veganism becomes, the closer we’ll get to our goal: a world free of cruelty.

By Janey Starling

/ 4 Feb 2018

The subversive power of joy

The unexpected, spontaneous and pleasantly disruptive nature of collective celebration is one of the great equalisers of social and political struggle.

By Janey Starling

/ 26 Jun 2017

When resting is resistance

Activists fixate on the future: impatient for the world we want to see. But falling into the capitalist trap of ceaseless productivity leads to burn out.

By Janey Starling

/ 20 Jan 2016

Why the monster Grendel has no place in activism today

I was at the anti-fracking protest at Balcombe in the UK when another activist said austerity is "a beast bigger than all of us". Then I started to see monsters everywhere.

By Janey Starling

/ 9 Jan 2014