Repro Uncensored X Waag Futurelab: You're Banned. Now What?
Digital censorship or digital suppression refers to platform practices that limit the visibility or availability of important information online. This includes content removals, account suspensions, shadowbanning, and other forms of algorithmic suppression.
Birth Control Misinformation: Information Access, Platform Power, and Health
Social media has become one of the primary ways people learn about health, relationships, and their bodies. Increasingly, it is also where people encounter information—and misinformation—about contraception and reproductive healthcare.
‘Too Dangerous’ to know: AI’s scaremongering playbook, HRT, & Fable 5
Fable 5, the “most powerful AI model ever made”, was released by Anthropic on June 9, then promptly retracted just three days later. While it was live, Fable 5 downgraded results about gender affirming healthcare information to Opus 4.8, its former leading model at the time.
Technology, Censorship, and Art in Japan: On Platform Power and Free Expression
Japanese visual artist Minori Murata works across CGI, video, installation, and interactive media to explore the relationships between technology, consumer culture, ecology, and collective belief. Known for creating immersive digital worlds that blur the boundaries between nature and the virtual, Murata’s work examines the systems that shape what we see and what remains hidden.
The Fertility Industry and the Myth of a Birth Rate Crisis: Why Pronatalism Won't Reverse Birth-Rate Decline
The Trump administration has failed to move the needle on its goal of boosting US declining birth rates and reversing the "fertility crisis," which Health and Human Services Secretary Kennedy recently called "a threat not only to our economy, to our national security," and Dr. Oz said has left a third of Americans "under-babied."
Amid Repro Uncensored’ Landmark Legal Action Against Meta, Australian Organisations Warn Similar Cases Could Build Toward Future Legal Action -Press Release
Amid Repro Uncensored and Dutch Queer Groups’ Landmark Legal Action Against Meta, Australian Organizations Warn Similar Cases Could Build Toward Future Legal Action
Mathematical Equations are Revealing New Insights into Women’s Bodies x UNAL
At Women Deliver 2026 Conference, a new declaration frames gender inequality as a systemic crisis and calls for a rebalancing of power across institutions. But does it go far enough in addressing who controls visibility, information, and participation today?
Repro Uncensored, Bits of Freedom, and Dutch Queer Organizations Are Taking Legal Action Against Meta -Press Release
Repro Uncensored, Bits of Freedom and Dutch Queer Organizations Issue Legal Demand Against Meta, Escalating Pressure for a European Class Action
Instagram Scraps Message Encryption in May 2026: KISS to Protect Reproductive Rights (EDRi)
Meta quietly announced via the help center it is removing end-to-end encryption (E2EE) from Instagram messages on May 8, 2026. E2EE messages and calls ensure only you and the people that you're communicating with, can see or listen to your messages, and no one else can.
RU X IPPF: RightsCon Cancelled as Global Attacks on SRHR and Digital Freedoms Intensify -Press Release
The cancellation comes at a time of growing global rollback on fundamental rights, including freedom of expression, access to information, and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). Many organisations including Repro Uncensored and International Planned Parenthood Federation, were set to speak at RightsCon, with dozens of sessions focused on censorship, platform governance, and access to reproductive health information online.
Rebalancing Power: What the Melbourne Declaration Reveals About the Crisis in Gender Equality- Women Deliver 2026
At Women Deliver 2026 Conference, a new declaration frames gender inequality as a systemic crisis and calls for a rebalancing of power across institutions. But does it go far enough in addressing who controls visibility, information, and participation today?
Gnosis and the Politics of Knowledge: How Canonization Becomes Censorship
From the exclusion of the Gnostic texts to the ranking of content online, institutions have long determined which narratives are visible, legitimate, and preserved—and which are buried, discredited, or erased.
Abortion in Benin: When Cost Becomes a Barrier to a Legal Right
In Benin, abortion is legal under one of West Africa’s most progressive laws, yet access remains uneven. Financial barriers, inconsistent pricing, and gaps in implementation continue to shape whether women and girls can actually obtain care, turning a legal right into a deeply unequal reality.
Beyond Telemedicine: Detecting Cervical Cancer in Amazonian Leticia, Colombia
In Leticia, Colombia, where healthcare often travels by air or river, cervical cancer screening reveals what access looks like beyond telemedicine. This piece explores how prevention, infrastructure, and follow up care operate in one of the country’s most geographically isolated regions, and what it means to build health access where systems are limited but the need is urgent.
Why Civic Space Matters in a Time of Backlash: Lessons from CSW70
At CSW70, one thing was clear: without civic space, rights cannot be defended. As backlash grows globally, the ability to organize, speak, and access information is increasingly under threat, especially online. Protecting civic space is essential to protecting gender justice.
Australia: Sexual Content Moderation and Platform Governance Through a Sex-Positive Framework
A collective framework for rethinking how platforms govern sex, sexuality, and visibility online, outlining concrete principles for building more equitable, accountable, and sex-positive digital environments.
Does the Internet Feed Off of Women’s Bodies? How algorithms, AI, and platforms profit from the exploitation and silencing of women
From facial recognition bias to AI-generated sexual violence and reproductive health censorship, digital systems increasingly shape how women’s bodies and voices appear online. As platforms prioritize engagement and profit, algorithmic infrastructures are amplifying exploitation, surveillance, and the silencing of feminist and reproductive health information.
Feminists Writing Senegal Into the Internet: Inside the Wikimedia community building free knowledge and visibility
This piece examines the Wikimedia Community User Group Senegal and how feminist librarians are working to document Senegalese knowledge, archives, and languages across Wikipedia and other open platforms.
Expanding Access to Preventative Care: HPV Self-Screening, Community Health, and Cultural Interventions
A research and community intervention project piloting HPV self-screening in cultural spaces to decentralize preventative reproductive healthcare and expand equitable access in partnership with ProDx Health.
Indonesia’s Broadcasting Bill and the Quiet Return of Censorship in SRHR and Queer Expression
A leaked revision of Indonesia’s Broadcasting Bill suggests an expansion of state-style oversight into digital platforms and creator content.
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