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Repro Uncensored X Waag Futurelab: You're Banned. Now What?
Martha Dimitratou Martha Dimitratou

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.

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Technology, Censorship, and Art in Japan: On Platform Power and Free Expression
Martha Dimitratou Martha Dimitratou

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.

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The Fertility Industry and the Myth of a Birth Rate Crisis: Why Pronatalism Won't Reverse Birth-Rate Decline
Martha Dimitratou Martha Dimitratou

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."

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RU X IPPF: RightsCon Cancelled as Global Attacks on SRHR and Digital Freedoms Intensify -Press Release
Martha Dimitratou Martha Dimitratou

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.

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Abortion in Benin: When Cost Becomes a Barrier to a Legal Right
Martha Dimitratou Martha Dimitratou

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.

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Beyond Telemedicine: Detecting Cervical Cancer in Amazonian Leticia, Colombia
Martha Dimitratou Martha Dimitratou

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.

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Why Civic Space Matters in a Time of Backlash: Lessons from CSW70
Martha Dimitratou Martha Dimitratou

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.

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Does the Internet Feed Off of Women’s Bodies? How algorithms, AI, and platforms profit from the exploitation and silencing of women
Martha Dimitratou Martha Dimitratou

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.

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