Deepfake Porn, Break Ups & Mental Health with Jennifer Savin
In this episode, Hannah is joined by Jennifer Savin, who is the Features Editor at Cosmopolitan UK. Jennifer talks all about deepfake porn, why women are more likely to be impacted by it, and how long it can take laws to catch up with technology. What’s the balance between protecting yourself from internet image abuse while not censoring yourself online? Jennifer and Hannah also talk about how damaging break-ups can be to people’s mental health, whether you can or should avoid being in contact with exes after break-ups, and how important it is to let people know if you’re struggling. Jennifer shares her own experience of attempting to take her own life after a break-up, and why we need to stop dismissing people’s pain around break-ups and take their experiences seriously. Finally, and Hannah discuss advice for break-up mental health care, and getting back to basics to help you care for yourself.
CW: discussion of suicide from the beginning of the episode
Read the episode transcript here!
QUESTIONS FROM LISTENERS
What is your advice to feel the healthy pain after a breakup without suffering too much?
How to get out of the mindset of "they're the only perfect person for me, I will never find anyone like them.”
My partner says he'll fall apart completely, if we break up. How to navigate relationship conversations?
RESOURCES
USEFUL LINKS
Deepfake Porn: Could You Be Next? BBC documentary
Here’s why I dated 8 men with the same name… (Jennifer’s article about only dating Daniels)
MORE ABOUT JENNIFER SAVIN
Jennifer Savin is a multi-award winning journalist and the Features Editor at Cosmopolitan UK – where she is best known for her undercover investigations which highlight and explore issues important to young women. She is passionate about covering mental health – often writing personal pieces about anxiety, depression and how alcohol can tie into that – cultural trends and feminist issues. She regularly campaigns for abortion rights, recently helping persuade MPs to vote in favour of keeping the option of ‘Pills By Post’ abortions in England, and intimate image abuse, such as the threat of revenge porn. Jennifer’s recent report on the deepfake porn epidemic was featured in a BBC documentary, Deepfake Porn: Could You Be Next?, which she also acted as a consultant on.
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