Jane Gilmore is an author, feminist and ex-journalist from Melbourne, Australia. She has been researching and writing about the causes and effects of violence and poverty for almost two decades and is now undertaking a PhD at Monash University. She is researching perpetrators of sexual violence, what they think about masculinity and shame, and whether this knowledge could be used to make prevention education more effective.

Jane has a Master of Journalism from the University of Melbourne and is an award-winning journalist who has been commissioned by The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Guardian, The Saturday Paper, Crikey, Meanjin, News.com.au, The Daily Telegraph, SBS, Women’s Agenda, Queen Victoria Women’s Centre, Elle Magazine, Junkee, The Hoopla, Spook Magazine and the ABC among others.

She is a skilled keynote speaker and has extensive experience in providing engaging and expert commentary for radio, televisions, conferences, writer’s festivals, corporate events, and panel discussions. Her areas of proficiency are gender based violence and gender myths, media representation of women, and reporting on domestic and sexual violence.

Jane also provides media training and public speaking workshops, media advice, and writing for media advocacy workshops.

In 2015 she started the FixedIt campaign, pushing for change in the way media reports on men’s violence against women. Five years later she published a book about everything she had learned about men’s violence, women’s (mis)representation and the media. Fixed It was published by Penguin Random House in 2019.

She wrote the work section of the book Work Love Body, published by Hachette for Future Women in 2021.

Her next book, Teaching Consent, was published by Body Safety Australia in 2022.

Her latest book, Fairy Tale Princesses Will Kill Your Children was published in 2023.

Jane has two new books that will be published in 2025. Sign up to her newsletter in the form below for updates about publications and events and get a free shipping and a 20% discount off any book purchase from the shop.