Jane Gilmore is a writer, feminist and PhD candidate from Melbourne. She has been researching and writing about the causes and effects of violence and poverty for almost two decades and has written four books on various aspects of these topics.
Jane has a Master of Journalism from the University of Melbourne and was 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.
She is a skilful 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 the myths and stereotapes that support it, primary prevention of violence education, gendered economist inequality, media’s 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.
Jane’s first book, Fixed It, was published in 2019 and explores media’s representation of women and violence. In 2020 she wrote the work section of the book Work Love Body published in 2021. Teaching Consent was published in 2022, followed by Fairy Tale Princesses Will Kill Your Children in 2023 and the loosely associated podcast of the same name in 2024. Jane has two books coming out in 2025, Rape is a Theoretical Crime and How To Have Conversations About Consent With Your Children.
Testimonials
“I just wanted to share my thanks with you and Jane. Jane’s presentation received a lot of positive feedback, and we were so grateful to have her join us. The warmth, knowledge, and passion brought to the session were a wonderful start to the day.”
“We really appreciated your training, it was engaging and targeted exactly as discussed and flowed into the panel we had with centres who are doing exactly what you described to attract media. Thank you for the time and energy you devoted to making it so good!”
“Thank you again for a fantastic keynote on Friday. It was absolutely perfect. Content rich but with some humour to keep us all sane.
There was a great buzz in the room, and everyone has been telling us it was the best International Women’s Day event in a long time.”
“Jane was fabulous. She engaged the group so well and they were raving about her. Some of the participant’s feedback was:
- Great guest speaker!
- Today was good, really taught me lots about inner confidence
- Jane was super inspiring and I learnt a lot about talking small steps to making big changes
- I loved her confidence!”
‘” had the pleasure of working with Jane recently at the QTU’s women’s conference. Jane was fantastic at both events, and a real highlight for the participants. She has the capacity to tailor her work to the audience, speak to a diverse audience and convey her message in a way that is energising and thought provoking. We were really thrilled to connect with Jane.”