PEOPLE
Team
Julie Bindel is co-founder and co-director of The Lesbian Project. She is an investigative journalist, author and feminist campaigner against male violence. She writes for a number of publications, in the UK and elsewhere, and is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Reading School of Law.
Julie Bindel
Kathleen Stock is co-founder and co-director of The Lesbian Project. She is a contributing writer at Unherd, a Founding Faculty Fellow at UATX, and the author of Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism (Little Brown 2021). Until October 2021, she was a Professor of Philosophy at University of Sussex. She was awarded an OBE for services to higher education in 2020.
Kathleen Stock
Patrons
A champion on and off the court, Martina is not only a tennis legend, but an inspirational leader who demonstrates tenacity, candor, and motivation. As one of the first openly gay sports figures, she has spent much of her career overcoming prejudices and stereotypes, giving up millions of dollars in endorsements and sponsorship as a result of her insistence on living a life of integrity and honesty. Since coming out in 1981, she has been an inspiring and vocal advocate for lesbian and gay rights.
Martina Navratilova
Advisory Board
Lucy is a barrister who supports the most marginalised women through the justice system so that their rights and voices are not lost. She works with the Centre for Women’s Justice, on a pro bono basis. Lucy also acts as a proud trustee for domestic abuse and sexual violence charity Aurora New Dawn, and Kids on the Green, an organisation set up in the aftermath of the Grenfell tragedy. Currently Lucy is setting up her own pro bono centre to provide free legal advice to female victims of domestic violence involved in the family court proceedings.
Lucy Masoud
Joanna Cherry KC is the MP for Edinburgh Southwest. She was the SNP’s Spokesperson on Justice and Home Affairs from 2015-2021. In 2019 she led the successful ‘Cherry Case’ against Boris Johnson’s unlawful prorogation of the UK Parliament. Joanna was called to the bar in 1995 and took silk in 2009. From 2003-2008 she served as Standing Junior Counsel to the Scottish Government and from 2008-2011 she served as Crown Counsel.
Joanna Cherry
Tara works in health policy with a particular interest in maternal and reproductive health – currently for a trade union, previously for central government, the NHS, and the voluntary sector. She has served on the Stonewall Board, the Pink Parents Board, and as a founding trustee of the Sigrid Rausing Trust. Having been involved in lesbian activism for nearly 40 years, she badly wants to rescue the evidence and learning from that time so that public policy and community resources can work better for lesbians in the future.
Tara Kaufmann
Faika El-Nagashi is a member of parliament (MP) in Austria and the spokeswoman for integration and diversity politics of the Austrian Green Party. She is a political scientist and longstanding human rights advocate who has been active in civil society organisations on the national and transnational level for more than 25 years – including working with migrant women’s organisations, LGBT organizations and anti-racism initiatives. Her work focuses on feminism and women‘s rights, intersectionality and diversity politics as well as integration and migration policies. She is co-author of „Für alle, die hier sind“ (2022), a political manifest for a politics of solidarity.
Faika El-Nagashi
Nicole Jones is an artist and writer based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Nicole has been writing and publicly speaking about issues relating to sex and gender since 2016. In 2018, Nicole co-founded the campaigning group For Women Scotland; in 2020, she founded XX, a youth-led feminist network that advocates for freedom of expression and association as fundamental principles of women’s liberation. Nicole also serves on the advisory board for Sex Matters, a group campaigning for clarity on sex in law and institutions. Alongside her campaigning, Nicole is also an accomplished painter and photographer, with a body of work that explores themes of identity, gender, and sexuality, and she has gained recognition for her striking portraits of prominent figures in the women's movement.
Nicole Jones
Jo Phoenix
Jo Phoenix is an academic, sociologist and criminologist. She has researched matters of sex, gender, sexualities, crime and justice for more than 25 years. Jo came out as a lesbian in Texas in the 1970s and been a feminist since those early days. She is an expert in researching 'difficult to reach' populations and 'sensitive topics', author of numerous articles and books and the treatment of women and girls in the criminal justice system, prostitution policy reform, child sexual exploitation. Fundamental to her activism and professionalism is the belief in democratic discussion and the need for robust academic evidence, research and debate.
The Lesbian Project also has several advisory group members who prefer to retain anonymity at this time.