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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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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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COP30 and the Limits of Gender-Responsive Climate Action
Martha Dimitratou Martha Dimitratou

COP30 and the Limits of Gender-Responsive Climate Action

At COP30 in Belém, governments approved the Belém Gender Action Plan — a long-awaited framework for gender-responsive climate action. While the agreement marks real progress, feminist advocates warn that key issues, including sexual and reproductive health and rights, were diluted or erased, leaving critical gaps between commitments on paper and lived realities.

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Meta Is Deleting Queer and Sex Worker Accounts, and Our Communities Are Being Erased With Them
Martha Dimitratou Martha Dimitratou

Meta Is Deleting Queer and Sex Worker Accounts, and Our Communities Are Being Erased With Them

More than 45 queer and sex worker accounts have been removed across the UK, the Netherlands, and other countries in a coordinated wave of digital erasure. This is not random. It is part of a wider political and economic logic that silences communities perceived as a threat to conservative agendas, reshapes sex work as “exploitation,” and prioritises corporate risk over human rights, safety, and free expression online.

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Repro Uncensored: Bridging Online and Offline Community Organizing for Stronger Movements
Martha Dimitratou Martha Dimitratou

Repro Uncensored: Bridging Online and Offline Community Organizing for Stronger Movements

Repro Uncensored is exploring how open-source platforms like Decidim can bridge online and offline community organizing. In a time of increasing surveillance, censorship, and repression, autonomous digital spaces are essential for protecting movements, strengthening participation, and ensuring collective decision-making remains in the hands of communities.

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Low fertility isn’t a crisis. It may even be progress
Martha Dimitratou Martha Dimitratou

Low fertility isn’t a crisis. It may even be progress

An in-depth look at pronatalism, declining fertility, and the political panic around population “crisis,” through the work of Nandita Bajaj, challenging the idea that fewer births signal collapse and reframing reproductive choice as progress.

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The Death of Teen Vogue Is Not an Accident, It’s Digital Suppression in Disguise
Martha Dimitratou Martha Dimitratou

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.

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