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Activating SXSW

This SXSW, we are celebrating the launch of our collaborative campaign on Body Freedom! BODY FREEDOM FOR EVERY(BODY).

We have teamed up with Project for Empty Space, Fight For The Future, For Freedoms, and Plan C to present a multi-site arts activation addressing Big Tech’s complicity in the attack on body autonomy and its role in fueling these attacks through invasive data collection and abortion information suppression.

The Body Freedom campaign presents bright, large-scale typographic calls-to-action created in collaboration with designer Chantal Fischzang. It includes information on Big Tech’s abortion surveillance and censorship, artworks from the Body Freedoms program, and a variety of For Freedoms billboards focused on related issues exploring what it would look like if advertising, like art, asked questions instead of answering them. This series of visuals will be mounted on MOBILE DIGITAL BILLBOARDS, in LARGE-SCALE PROJECTIONS, in a mass-produced/distributed resource pamphlet and poster, and in a Zine-making activity.

On March 10, the billboard was stationed outside the Future Front House and was part of the one-day conversations and activations on Care including an all-day zine workshop.

On March 11, we joined Fos Feminista, PLAN C, Amnesty International USA, and Fight For The Future for an official SXSW panel to discuss the "Global Impact of Big Tech Abortion Information Suppression"! With the overturn of Roe v Wade, a surging number of people are searching for abortion-related answers online. When Big Tech should be stepping up to ensure access to accurate abortion information, the threats of digital suppression and disinformation are increasing. For more information, please click here.

From March 8-11, our mobile digital billboards will be driving around downtown Austin, focusing on central SXSW locations, the Blanton Museum of Art, and the Texas Capitol! From March 8-13, the artwork and messages will also be projected in various central SXSW locations, including the Line Hotel and the Austin Convention Center.

Body Freedom Artworks and For Freedoms commissioned billboards presented include artists David Antonio Cruz, Amaryllis R. Flowers, Eric Hart Jr., Aurora James, Marilyn Minter, Sofía Gallisá Muriente, Zhaleh Phillips, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Thank God for Abortion, and Jasmine Wahi.

Find out where you can see our billboard and projections in Austin here.

Learn more about our campaign and how to take action here.

Launching an international coalition to fight digital suppression

Women on Web, Amnesty USA, Plan C, Women First Digital and ReproAction will launch an international coalition "Repro Uncensored" on the sidelines of the Commission on the Status of Women in NYC. The coalition will bring together non-profits, creatives, reproductive health providers, researchers, and digital rights advocates to ensure that abortion information can be freely shared and accessed without restrictions, and without the fear of being stifled by Big Tech platforms.

To mark the launch, on March 20 in SoHo NYC, Women on Web is partnering with Amnesty International USA, the Universal Access Project, and PLAN C, Fos Feminista, and The ODAS Center for a discussion on “Visions for a Digital Future: Combating Online Suppression of Abortion Information.” Activists and strategists will explain how they are combatting and circumventing digital suppression and coming together to build a digital future that supports the reproductive rights of all people everywhere.

WHEN: Wednesday, March 20, 2024 | 10am-11:30am EDT
WHERE: The Farm SoHo | 447 Broadway, NY

RSVP and learn more HERE