Self-Censorship as Survival: Faith, SRHR, and Digital Backlash
Self-censorship does not emerge from silence alone. It is produced through moral regulation, digital backlash, and the constant calculation of risk. In faith-based SRHR contexts, speaking openly can trigger social punishment, platform suppression, and personal harm.
How the UK Online Safety Act is harming marginalized communities and setting a dangerous global precedent
As the UK’s Online Safety Act moves into enforcement, “safety” is increasingly achieved through removal rather than protection. Sex workers, queer communities, and sexual and reproductive health advocates are losing visibility, income, and access to essential information under compliance driven moderation.
When Environmental Disaster Is Silenced: How Algorithmic Power Erased Indonesia’s Flood Crisis
When an environmental disaster struck Indonesia, the world barely noticed. As floods swallowed entire communities and thousands were displaced, the crisis failed to register beyond local networks. This silence was not accidental. It was produced by an ecosystem where algorithms, media concentration, and political power quietly determine which lives are seen and which are rendered invisible.
Digital Anarchy, Cybernetics, and the Politics of Feedback
Digital systems are often framed as neutral tools, yet they are built from choices that shape whose voices are amplified and whose are erased. Drawing on cybernetics and anarchist thought, this piece examines how feedback, power, and governance operate within digital infrastructures and why reclaiming collective agency over these systems is essential for justice, accountability, and care.
Appealing into a void - can the DSA protect Europe's marginalised?
This research documents how reproductive health, sex worker-led, and queer organizations across Europe continue to face censorship despite the Digital Services Act. It shows how appeal and enforcement mechanisms remain inaccessible in practice, leaving lawful communities without effective protection.
Repro Uncensored × The Guardian: Our Investigation on Meta’s Global Censorship of Abortion Advice and Queer Content
This research, conducted by Repro Uncensored, exposes a global escalation in the censorship of abortion access, sexual health, and queer content across Meta platforms, revealing opaque enforcement practices, ineffective appeals mechanisms, and material harm.
COP30 and the Limits of Gender-Responsive Climate Action
At COP30 in Belém, governments approved the Belém Gender Action Plan — a long-awaited framework for gender-responsive climate action. While the agreement marks real progress, feminist advocates warn that key issues, including sexual and reproductive health and rights, were diluted or erased, leaving critical gaps between commitments on paper and lived realities.
Visibility Isn’t Access: How Platforms Erase Disabled Creators
Visibility on social media does not equal access. Platforms are built around speed, constant output, and algorithmic reward systems that are not designed for disabled people.
Censoring Erotics, Censoring Community Art under Platform Surveillance
Erotic artists sit at the frontlines of content policing. Through SPUNK ROCK’s story, this piece examines the patterns of moderation that disproportionately target queer and body-positive creators and the emotional and economic toll of sustaining an erotic practice under platform surveillance
Meta Is Deleting Queer and Sex Worker Accounts, and Our Communities Are Being Erased With Them
More than 45 queer and sex worker accounts have been removed across the UK, the Netherlands, and other countries in a coordinated wave of digital erasure. This is not random. It is part of a wider political and economic logic that silences communities perceived as a threat to conservative agendas, reshapes sex work as “exploitation,” and prioritises corporate risk over human rights, safety, and free expression online.
Repro Uncensored: Bridging Online and Offline Community Organizing for Stronger Movements
Repro Uncensored is exploring how open-source platforms like Decidim can bridge online and offline community organizing. In a time of increasing surveillance, censorship, and repression, autonomous digital spaces are essential for protecting movements, strengthening participation, and ensuring collective decision-making remains in the hands of communities.
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.
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