That little voice inside you, urging silence when your opinions at work beg to be spoken? This is the sad dystopian reality of women’s lives, where the most powerful censor is often you.

Forget dictatorships. Alarming censorship grows in our classrooms, silently erasing women’s voices and potential from the very curriculum designed to empower. It’s a dystopia that’s influencing the futures of young women in the United Kingdom.

Why did China block the #MeToo hashtag, and why are women being silenced when they try to speak up about sexual harassment?

When Isabelle Richardson was asked by a student in her classroom in Canada why The Handmaid’s Tale wasn’t on their reading list, she didn’t have a quick answer. ‘It’s not banned,’ she told them. ‘We just… don’t teach it.’

Mansplaining is something that plagues the lives of all women. On the surface it may seem superficial and lacking importance, but beneath the surface it reinstates the very power hierarchy that weaves together today’s society, and playing it down only adds to the censorship of women in the political landscape. 

Donald Trump, a man whose attitudes towards women has been questioned many times throughout his career, is now one of the most powerful people in the world.  When he won his way back into office in November 2024 there were concerns over how women would suffer from it, but nobody expected him to strip it down to the core and censor language.

When a mural to show tribute to the Samsui women of Singapore stirs a debate online for being too offensive to the history of these women or not “law-abiding”, we start to wonder why there’s no artistic freedom in the country, especially when it comes to an artwork of a woman.

An activist and civil rights litigator explains how being a Muslim woman who chooses to wear the hijab can censor you from the conversation on empowerment as western feminism increasingly paints sexuality as the pinnacle output of power.

When survivors of sexual assault are forced to call it “grape” to avoid censorship, it’s not just the algorithm that’s flawed- it’s the society that built it.

Why do male-focused ads flourish while women’s health posts face silence? From banned menopause advice to censored C-section scars, this article explores how tech giants are subtly controlling women’s bodies.