Beyond the Body: The New Frontiers of Human Freedom in an Era of Technological Authoritarianism
by Universal Access Project
During UN General Assembly week in New York, Repro Uncensored joined Universal Access Project and fellow partners, including SisterSong, The Neurorights Foundation, C.A. Goldberg, PLLC and The Fuller Project, for a conversation about human autonomy, technology and the future of collective action.
The fight for autonomy is changing. As democratic institutions weaken and digital technologies become increasingly capable of monitoring and influencing our lives, protecting our freedom requires us to confront new forms of control.
Movements for sexual and reproductive health, rights and justice have long fought for people’s power to make decisions about their bodies and futures. The reproductive justice movement, led by Black women in the United States, expanded this vision to include the conditions people need to raise families and live safely. Today, that struggle also reaches into our data, our access to information and the digital spaces where we connect and organise.
Published by Universal Access Project, Beyond the Body explores how surveillance, algorithms and platforms shape our choices and access to essential services. Drawing on reproductive justice, digital rights, labour justice, disability justice and other movements, it calls for broader alliances and a shared policy and advocacy framework to defend human freedom.
For Repro Uncensored, this connects directly to our work challenging digital censorship and protecting freedom of expression. When platforms restrict information or silence communities, they affect people’s ability to make informed decisions, participate in public life and organise for change. Protecting autonomy means addressing who controls these spaces and building collective power to hold them accountable.
Stay tuned as we share more from our UNGA conversation, including insights from participating partners and the next steps in this collective work.