Breaking up with Big Tech: A Manifesto for Sexual Health, Rights and Justice
A collective manifesto exploring how feminist, sexual and reproductive justice movements can challenge Big Tech, sustain our communities and build alternatives rooted in care and solidarity.
Introduction
What does it take for our movements to break up with Big Tech? How can we sustain our communities, protect our knowledge and organize beyond platforms that restrict our voices?
Breaking up with Big Tech brings together feminist researchers, activists and advocates to explore these questions, connecting sexual and reproductive justice with digital rights, community care and resistance.
Contributors include Martha Dimitratou of Repro Uncensored, Kali Sudhra of the European Sex Workers’ Rights Alliance (ESWA) and Luca Stevenson of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), alongside Zahra Stardust, Maria Prendeville, Mar Diez Henao, Shubha Kayastha and Emma Quilty.
Published through the Digital Media Research Centre at Queensland University of Technology, the manifesto features illustrations by Jacq Moon.
From platform harm to collective resistance
Censorship, surveillance and discriminatory platform policies shape whose experiences are visible and whose knowledge remains accessible. For movements working on sexual health, reproductive rights, queer liberation and sex worker justice, these decisions affect how we connect, organize and care for one another.
The manifesto turns towards our own movements, asking how we can respond together and build the conditions for collective liberation.
Ten provocations for our movements
Structured around ten provocations, the manifesto explores grief, platform gaslighting, boundaries, community nourishment and coalition building. It connects the harms of Big Tech with possibilities for solidarity, mutual aid and collective action.
These provocations offer starting points for imagining digital futures shaped by our communities.
Bring it into your community
Read and discuss the manifesto in community spaces, workshops, staff meetings and coalitions. Use it to reflect on your organizing strategies, examine your relationship with digital platforms and connect shared struggles with local realities.
Contributors
Written by Zahra Stardust, Kali Sudhra, Maria Prendeville, Mar Diez Henao, Martha Dimitratou, Luca Stevenson, Shubha Kayastha and Emma Quilty.
Illustrations by Jacq Moon. Published in 2026 through the Digital Media Research Centre at Queensland University of Technology.
Bringing the manifesto into public spaces
The manifesto was displayed at Queensland University of Technology’s Library during a Pride Month event in September 2026. Interactive screens invited visitors to explore its illustrations and read excerpts, with specially designed thumbnails created by Jacq Moon.Zahra Stardust also shared the manifesto at the World Sexual Health Assembly in South Africa, hosted by the World Association for Sexual Health in August 2026, bringing its ideas into international conversations about sexual health, rights and justice.