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.
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.
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.
Digital Anarchy, Cybernetics, and the Politics of Feedback
Digital systems are often framed as neutral tools, yet they are built from choices that shape whose voices are amplified and whose are erased. Drawing on cybernetics and anarchist thought, this piece examines how feedback, power, and governance operate within digital infrastructures and why reclaiming collective agency over these systems is essential for justice, accountability, and care.
Visibility Isn’t Access: How Platforms Erase Disabled Creators
Visibility on social media does not equal access. Platforms are built around speed, constant output, and algorithmic reward systems that are not designed for disabled people.
Censoring Erotics, Censoring Community Art under Platform Surveillance
Erotic artists sit at the frontlines of content policing. Through SPUNK ROCK’s story, this piece examines the patterns of moderation that disproportionately target queer and body-positive creators and the emotional and economic toll of sustaining an erotic practice under platform surveillance
Columbia University: How We Are Working With Students to Improve On-Campus Access to Reproductive Healthcare
At Columbia University, students are organizing to close a critical gap in on-campus reproductive healthcare. Over the past two years, members of the Reproductive Justice Collective of New York and Planned Parenthood Generation Action have built a student-led emergency contraception distribution network and launched a comprehensive survey to assess barriers to accessing EC on campus.
The Death of Teen Vogue Is Not an Accident, It’s Digital Suppression in Disguise
When Teen Vogue is folded into Vogue.com, it’s not just a business move, it’s a warning. In this sharp, urgent essay, Ana Karen Flores argues that what’s being sold as “streamlining” is in fact digital suppression in disguise, a quiet erasure of young, queer, and political voices that once challenged power and shaped a generation’s understanding of justice.
The Age Verification law: Training a Nation to Use VPNs / a Pornography Privacy Nightmare
It's a great time to be a Virtual Private Network (VPN) provider, as VPN downloads topped app-store charts in the UK last week. This followed the roll-out of strict Age Verification (AV) checks that were implemented on pornography sites on July 25, as part of a new iteration of the UK’s Online Safety Act.
How to Avoid Instagram Shadowbans in 2025: A Guide for Activists and Creators
Understand how Meta’s algorithm flags posts and learn key strategies to protect your reach when sharing political or activist content on Instagram.
Fighting for Campus Accountability: The Every Voice Bill
The Every Voice Bill is survivor-led legislation that’s reshaping how colleges and universities address sexual violence. Rooted in lived experience, it builds crucial protections into state law, holding institutions accountable while centering the needs of students, not school reputations.
U.S. Students’ Free Speech and Protests Under Threat: Why this Concerns us All
The U.S. government is escalating its crackdown on student activists, particularly those involved in pro-Palestinian protests. Federal agencies are working with universities to suppress dissent, punish protesters, and intimidate international students into silence.
Amnesty International USA: Tell Meta and TikTok to stop removing abortion information
As many U.S. states and countries around the world increasingly restrict abortion access, the urgency to ensure safe and unrestricted access to reproductive healthcare and abortion information online has never been greater.
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