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.
We asked artists in China about censorship. Here’s what they told us.
We interviewed artists in China about censorship and self-censorship in artistic practice. Their reflections describe a system shaped less by explicit prohibition and more by uncertainty, where creators often anticipate consequences and quietly adjust expression in advance.
The Americans: Bad Bunny, “Too Political,” and the Violence the Super Bowl Can’t Hide
The backlash against Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance is not really about politics—it’s about who is allowed to exist publicly without being punished for it. Labeling marginalized people as “too political” has become a tool of erasure, one that mirrors deeper structures of state violence, censorship, and control. From ICE raids to reproductive coercion, the Super Bowl is not a refuge from politics, but a stage where power decides whose lives are visible, and whose suffering is ignored.
Reproductive Rights, UPR, and Human Rights Accountability in the U.S.
As the United States withdrew from the Universal Periodic Review and altered how reproductive rights are reported in official human rights documents, civil society actors developed alternative forms of documentation to ensure evidence of harm, lived experience, and legal analysis remained part of the public record.
The Hidden Labor of Hong Kong: Care Work Amidst Tragedy and Repression
A personal account of the Wang Fuk Court fire in Hong Kong, tracing how preventable disaster, information control, and political pressure shape what can be seen, said, and remembered. The essay centers the often-invisible care work of migrant women and communities who sustain life amid silence and neglect.
How We Bear Witness to the Siege of Minneapolis
An essay on how algorithms, disinformation, and generative AI distort reality in moments of violence. When truth is overwritten by hyperreality, victims are forced to exist in both the real and the fabricated at once.
Vodun Days 2026: Reclaiming Cultural Sovereignty in Benin and West Africa Against Erasure
In a region where Indigenous spiritual systems were long silenced, Vodun Days 2026 reclaim public space as a site of cultural resistance. By affirming Vodun as living knowledge rather than folklore, the festival challenges historical and contemporary forms of erasure shaping how West African cultures are seen, valued, or ignored.
Shadowbanned: Art, Language, and Survival Under Digital Censorship
When platforms label marginalized voices as “dangerous,” censorship becomes violence. In this essay, Vianney Harelly writes about art, borders, Palestine solidarity, and the real cost of being visible under digital censorship.
They Don’t Want Us to Know the Truth: Digital Censorship in Latino Communities
Latino communities turn to the internet for clarity on immigration, reproductive rights, and civic life, only to find their voices buried. As platforms suppress Spanish-language education and amplify misinformation, access to truth is quietly reshaped.
Victims of Algorithmic Hyperreality: One Real Death, Infinite Fabrications
An essay on how algorithms, disinformation, and generative AI distort reality in moments of violence. When truth is overwritten by hyperreality, victims are forced to exist in both the real and the fabricated at once.
Gendered Censorship in the Age of AI: Artist Violet on Platforms, Visibility, and Feminine Labor
Artist Violet shares a firsthand account of gendered censorship, algorithmic visibility, and AI driven extraction, examining how platforms shape creative labor and safety online.
Meta’s Vendetta Against Queer Culture & Sex: Double Standards in Platform Policy (and it’s not just Meta)
Big Tech platforms claim to allow queer, sexual, and reproductive health content, yet their automated systems routinely erase it. Across Meta, YouTube, TikTok, and beyond, accounts are deleted, content is demonetised, and pleasure-affirming information is mislabelled as “adult,” while misogynistic and male-centred sexual content continues to thrive.
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.
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