31 Facts About Julie Bindel

Julie Bindel was born on 20 July 1962 and is an English radical feminist writer.

Julie Bindel is co-founder of the law reform group Justice for Women, which has aimed to help women who have been prosecuted for assaulting or killing violent male partners.

Julie Bindel has written or co-written over 30 book chapters and five books, including Straight Expectations and The Pimping of Prostitution.

Julie Bindel is the editor, with her partner Harriet Wistrich, of The Map of My Life: The Story of Emma Humphreys.

Julie Bindel has written regularly for The Guardian, the New Statesman, The Spectator, The Sunday Telegraph magazine, and Standpoint.

Julie Bindel attended Branksome Comprehensive School from 1973 to 1978, leaving a year early without anyone noticing, she wrote.

Julie Bindel came out as a lesbian in 1977 when she was 15.

When she was 17, Julie Bindel moved to Leeds and joined the Leeds Revolutionary Feminist Group, which was campaigning against pornography.

Julie Bindel wrote in 2005 that the police investigation only became focused when the first "non-prostitute" was murdered.

Julie Bindel was angered by the police's assertions that prostitutes were the killer's target, although from May 1978 none of the victims had fitted that profile, and by police advice that women stay indoors.

Julie Bindel describes being followed home one night in November 1980 by a man of medium height with a dark beard and wiry hair.

Julie Bindel ran into a pub to escape from him and reported what had happened to the police, who either asked her to complete a photofit or dismissed her account because her pursuer had a Yorkshire accent.

When Sutcliffe's photograph was published after his arrest the following year, Julie Bindel realised the photofit she had assisted in compiling looked almost exactly like him as well as resembling the version provided by Marilyn Moore, one of Sutcliffe's victims who survived.

Julie Bindel took part in feminist protests against the killings, including flyposting fake police posters in Leeds advising men to stay off the streets:.

Julie Bindel has served as the assistant director of the Research Centre on Violence, Abuse and Gender Relations at Leeds Metropolitan University, researcher at the Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit at London Metropolitan University, Visiting Journalist at Brunel University London, and Visiting Researcher at the University of Lincoln.

Together with her partner, Harriet Wistrich, a solicitor, and Hilary McCollum, Julie Bindel co-founded Justice for Women, a feminist law-reform group that campaigns against laws that discriminate against women in cases involving male violence against partners.

In 2008, an issue Julie Bindel had campaigned on for over a decade became the focus of government legislation.

Julie Bindel has been researching and campaigning against prostitution since the 1970s and has written regularly about it since 1998.

Julie Bindel writes for The Guardian, The Sunday Telegraph magazine, the New Statesman, Truthdig and Standpoint, and is often interviewed by the BBC and Sky News.

Julie Bindel began writing for newspapers in November 1998, while she was working at Leeds Metropolitan University, when The Independent published her article about the Leeds Kerb Crawlers Re-education Programme.

Julie Bindel argues that the investigative and legal process treats women more as offenders than victims, and that people think it is more important to safeguard the rights of men who might be accused maliciously.

Julie Bindel described her horror when she was younger at the idea of settling down with a local boy:.

Julie Bindel extends the same criticism to same-sex marriage; marriage should be rejected, not reclaimed.

Julie Bindel is the co-founder, with Kathleen Stock, of the Lesbian Project, which describes itself as "an organisation dedicated to representing the rights and interests of lesbians in the UK".

Julie Bindel is critical of the practice of no-platforming, arguing that "censorship is the new normal".

Julie Bindel believes that no-platforming merely leaves us uninformed about other people's views.

Julie Bindel argues that gender is a product of socialisation, and that gender roles reinforce women's oppression.

Julie Bindel wrote in 2008 that gender-reassignment surgery reinforces gender stereotypes, and that the diagnosis of gender identity disorder is built upon outdated views about how females and males should behave.

Minou asserted that Julie Bindel had a "long record of public transphobia".

When Julie Bindel was nominated in 2008 for Stonewall's "Journalist of the year" award, transgender activists picketed the ceremony.

In July 2020, Julie Bindel sued PinkNews and its editor Benjamin Cohen for libel in relation to an article concerning gender-critical feminism that she argued defamed her.