Low fertility isn’t a crisis. It may even be progress
An in-depth look at pronatalism, declining fertility, and the political panic around population “crisis,” through the work of Nandita Bajaj, challenging the idea that fewer births signal collapse and reframing reproductive choice as progress.
Columbia University: How We Are Working With Students to Improve On-Campus Access to Reproductive Healthcare
At Columbia University, students are organizing to close a critical gap in on-campus reproductive healthcare. Over the past two years, members of the Reproductive Justice Collective of New York and Planned Parenthood Generation Action have built a student-led emergency contraception distribution network and launched a comprehensive survey to assess barriers to accessing EC on campus.
The Death of Teen Vogue Is Not an Accident, It’s Digital Suppression in Disguise
When Teen Vogue is folded into Vogue.com, it’s not just a business move, it’s a warning. In this sharp, urgent essay, Ana Karen Flores argues that what’s being sold as “streamlining” is in fact digital suppression in disguise, a quiet erasure of young, queer, and political voices that once challenged power and shaped a generation’s understanding of justice.
Your Menstrual Health Data is Very Valuable, and Big Tech Wants It.
Google and period-tracking app Flo Health have been ordered to pay a total of $56M in damages to settle a class-action lawsuit, after Flo shared user’s intimate menstrual cycle and fertility data with Meta, Google, and two further platforms between 2016-2019.
When Khmer Became a Target: Censorship of SRHR Online
Censorship of sex education in Cambodia has shifted from euphemisms and stigma in everyday life to new digital suppression in Khmer. As algorithms increasingly flag SRHR content, accurate information is being silenced, leaving young people without the knowledge they need for bodily autonomy and reproductive rights
The Age Verification law: Training a Nation to Use VPNs / a Pornography Privacy Nightmare
It's a great time to be a Virtual Private Network (VPN) provider, as VPN downloads topped app-store charts in the UK last week. This followed the roll-out of strict Age Verification (AV) checks that were implemented on pornography sites on July 25, as part of a new iteration of the UK’s Online Safety Act.
Documenting Censorship: Farsi/Dari SRHR Voices
The primary challenge facing these communities is that anti-rights and anti-SRHR forces are in power in both countries. This not only strips people of access to their rights but also cuts them off from the information they need to understand those rights.
How to Avoid Instagram Shadowbans in 2025: A Guide for Activists and Creators
Understand how Meta’s algorithm flags posts and learn key strategies to protect your reach when sharing political or activist content on Instagram.
Fighting for Campus Accountability: The Every Voice Bill
The Every Voice Bill is survivor-led legislation that’s reshaping how colleges and universities address sexual violence. Rooted in lived experience, it builds crucial protections into state law, holding institutions accountable while centering the needs of students, not school reputations.
Documenting Discriminatory Content Moderation: Data-Collection Guidelines for Legal Evidence
These guidelines are designed to facilitate the collection of evidence to enable potential legal recourse against discriminatory content moderation.
Menstrual Poverty in Sô-Ava, Benin: When Women and Girls Lack Water and Dignity
In Sô-Ava, a lakeside town in southern Benin, getting your period is a nightmare for many adolescent girls and women of reproductive age.
Structural Food Inequity and Community-Based Solutions: A Case for Plant-Based Justice
Structural Food Inequity and Community-Based Solutions: A Case for Plant-Based Justice. The term “food deserts” suggests a naturally occurring issue, but it is the result of structural inequality.
Iraq’s Internet Shutdowns Are Failing Students and Blocking Access to Reproductive Care
For years, Iraq has imposed nationwide internet shutdowns during high school exams in an attempt to curb cheating. But these recurring disruptions have far-reaching and harmful consequences.
From Free to Open: Building a Better Internet
Today's popular platforms are free to use but profit from collecting, packaging, and selling our behavioral data. We have a "Free Internet" - not an "Open Internet." This economic model is the foundation of the modern Internet and relies on constant surveillance. It needs our constant attention and data to fuel targeted advertising, political manipulation, and information warfare.
How Online Censorship and Global Policies Are Failing SRHR in MENA
Across the globe, activists use digital tools to shift narratives around sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). Yet for organizations in the Arab world, like The Sex Talk Arabic, this work is often met with multiple layers of censorship.
Repro Uncensored joins the ‘onionverse’
When a person's digital data is used as a weapon against reproductive freedom, secure and private internet access isn't just a nice feature–it's the only way to fight back.
U.S. Students’ Free Speech and Protests Under Threat: Why this Concerns us All
The U.S. government is escalating its crackdown on student activists, particularly those involved in pro-Palestinian protests. Federal agencies are working with universities to suppress dissent, punish protesters, and intimidate international students into silence.
Eastern DRC’s Humanitarian Crisis: Urgent Need for Global Solidarity to Protect SRHR Access and Information
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a nation torn apart by decades of conflict, remains one of the world's most complex and prolonged crises (UNHCR-Region, 2025).
The Impact of U.S. Funding Cuts and Media Censorship on Abortion Access
U.S. Foreign Aid Freezes and Information Suppression Are Restricting Abortion Access. The suspension of U.S. foreign aid, including funding for abortion services and reproductive health programs, has devastated healthcare systems across Africa.
Meta’s 2025 Policy Update is Opening the Floodgates to Abortion Misinformation
Meta may be putting sexual and reproductive rights at risk with their policy change. Is Meta’s reliance on Community Notes a good bet?
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