Ellen Jones is an award-winning author, speaker & founder.
Ellen Jones is an author, strategist, and award-winning campaigner recognised as one of the UK’s leading voices on inclusion. She is known for making complex conversations about LGBTQ+ equality, neurodivergence, and disability clear, engaging, and actionable.
Her debut book, Outrage: Why the Fight for LGBTQ+ Equality Is Not Yet Won and What You Can Do About It (Bluebird Pan Macmillan, 2025), has been praised for its honesty and urgency- part rallying cry, part handbook for change.
Ellen was named as Stonewall’s Young Campaigner of the Year, and then the inaugural winner of the an MTV EMA Generation Change Award. Ellen has been named one of London’s Most Influential People by the Evening Standard and one of Attitude Magazine’s 101 LGBTQ+ Trailblazers. In 2024 she was selected as one of four marketing leaders for WACL’s Represent Me campaign, collaborating with Snap, YouTube, and Pinterest to elevate conversations about representation. In 2025 she was listed among the Independent’s Top 50 LGBTQ+ People and shortlisted for Campaigner of the Year at the DIVA Awards.
Ellen is a sought-after speaker who has delivered talks, keynotes, and workshops at festivals, bookshops, community organisations, and cultural spaces across the UK and beyond. Known for combining clarity with compassion, she brings warmth, wit, and lived experience to every stage - leaving audiences informed, inspired, and equipped to make change.
Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, Vogue Business, Cosmopolitan, HuffPost, and BRICKS Magazine.
Alongside her writing and speaking, Ellen is the founder of Pansy Studios, a queer-led marketing agency and creative platform. Pansy Studios is home to the largest directory of LGBTQ+ freelance talent ever created, supporting freelancers while helping brands build meaningful, inclusive campaigns.
Outrage: Why the Fight for LGBTQ+ Equality Is Not Yet Won and What We Can Do About It
Despite being more visible in mainstream culture than ever before, LGBTQ+ people are facing unacceptable levels of prejudice and danger - from a marked increase in homophobic and transphobic violence, to the rollback of rights around the world.
In this groundbreaking, compelling and essential book, author and activist Ellen Jones sets out exactly how LGBTQ+ people continue to face discrimination, looking at education, sports, religion, marriage, mental health and much more.
In searing prose, punctuated with personal accounts from LGBTQ+ people from across the globe, Jones sets out not only the issues but also practical actions, both big and small, that all of us can take to help create a more equal society. What's more, she shines a spotlight on the amazing individuals already working hard to change things.
Whether you are a member of the LGBTQ+ community, an ally, or simply care about human rights and equality, Outrage is essential, and illuminating, reading.
