Get the Tech Off My Body! Recording and resources
Overturning Roe v. Wade in the United States and restricting access to abortion throughout the Americas is part of a strategy of repression that is focused on our bodies. The strategy not only targets reproductive justice, but also transgender rights, the mobility of poor people and people of color, and access to health care and other critical services. In this webinar, we’ll hear from May First members involved in the struggle and discuss the relationship between the struggles for reproductive justice, privacy, autonomy, and freedom from surveillance. How can our campaign to re-envision technology based on consent and liberation contribute to our movement’s struggle for reproductive justice?
On June 21st, 2022 May First, along with May First members the Progressive Technology Project, the National Network of Abortion Funds, and the Detention Watch Network organized a webinar to discuss the technology implications of over turning Roe v. Wade.
Listen by clicking the play button above, or see the collection of resources the panelists and participants compiled during the webinar.
Collected Resource from the webinar
- Riana’s blog post about abortion privacy & encryption
- EFF abortion privacy & security tips
- Talk about abortion criminalization, “Jailed by a Google Search”
- Politico article about abortion privacy & security (6/20)
- “My Body, My Data Act”
- Ale Link Tree
- American Dragnet Data-Driven Deportation in the 21st Century
- Defunding the Dragnet
- End Abusive Surveillance of Immigrant, Black & Brown Communities
- Hacking//Hustling
- EFF - Street Level Surveillance
- Detention Watch Network: Defund Hate
- Mijente No Tech For ICE Campaign
- Time Magazine - Abortion Surveillance
- Digital Security for Abortio Poster
- From Data Criminalization to Prison Abolition
- De-criminalize Abortion
- Facebook tracking abortion
- Shout your abortion
- Join Mayfirst or if a member, get involved
Panelists
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Alejandra Poblas is a reproductive justice organizer and storyteller at the intersections mass incarceration and immigration. She shares her incarceration and abortion story as an act of resistance to fight abortion stigma and bring awareness to abolition and racial justice. |
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Alice Aguilar’s (moderator) life work focuses in supporting indigenous people’s rights, environmental justice, and reproductive justice issues. Alice’s current work involves leading the fight against racism and sexism in technology, bringing women, queer and Trans people of color into movement technology, and winning respect for the people of color already doing technology work within social justice movements. |
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Riana Pfefferkorn is a Research Scholar at the Stanford Internet Observatory. She investigates the U.S. and other governments’ policies and practices for forcing decryption and/or influencing the security design of online platforms and services, devices, and products, both via technical means and through the courts and legislatures. Riana also studies novel forms of electronic surveillance and data access by U.S. law enforcement and their impact on civil liberties. |
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Kim Varela-Broxson works for the The National Network of Abortion Funds. The National Network of Abortion Funds builds power with members to remove financial and logistical barriers to abortion access by centering people who have abortions and organizing at the intersections of racial, economic, and reproductive justice. |
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May First Movement Technology engages in building movements by advancing the strategic use and collective control of technology for local struggles, global transformation, and emancipation without borders. |
