leveling the playing field for women’s health content & businesses across online platforms
from social media, to financial services and investment
Read CensHERship’s statement on Meta’s fact-checking & trust and safety announcement of 7 January 2025
Our Research
We are gathering data and experiences from brands, charities, creators and educators to demonstrate the scale of digital suppression across multiple online platforms.
Our research has been featured in The Times, The Guardian, Glamour, Wired and on BBC Radio 4 amongst other outlets.
Please contribute your experiences using the links below.
SOCIAL MEDIA SURVEY
Click HERE to access our Social Media Censorship Survey.
Women’s health and sexual wellbeing content is commonly censored on social media platforms. Let us know your experiences.
Our research was reported on in The Times, Glamour, The Daily Express, and others.
FINANCIAL SERVICES SURVEY
Click HERE to access our Financial Services Survey.
In collaboration with The Guardian, we are monitoring the occurance of femtech and sexual wellbeing companies being refused access to banking, insurance, e-commerce and payment platforms. Let us know if you’ve experienced this.
Our initial research was published HERE.
EU Survey
Click HERE to access our European Union-focused survey on men’s and women’s health censorship.
This survey focuses on paid digital ads by brands operating in the EU, and we are gathering data from men’s and women’s health companies to analyse any discrepancy. We are working on this research with The Case for Her.
As featured in
9 out of 10 organisations we surveyed experienced at least 1 incident of censorship on social media in the last 12 months
- CensHERship Research
about
CensHERship
CensHERship is a campaign started by Clio Wood, women’s health advocate, author and Founder of &Breathe, and Anna O’Sullivan, Founder of FutureFemHealth.
CensHERship aims to tackle social media censorship of women’s health and sexual wellbeing content. This censorship happens across all social media platforms (and elsewhere in the digital and financial world). It silences and suppresses brands, educators, charities and content creators.
We do this through our research, advocacy, legislative action, partnerships, education and consultancy. We are a mouthpiece and beacon of connection for those affected.
We also work to achieve equal access to investment, financial services and ecommerce platforms for female-led women’s health and sexual wellbeing businesses.
Why
CensHERship Matters
Having experienced social media censorship first-hand, our Co-Founder, Clio Wood decided in early 2024 to do something about it.
Social Media censorship can range from certain words associated with women’s health (period, vagina, vulva…) being restricted and their use impacting the reach of content, through to paid-for ads featuring women’s health and sexual wellbeing products being routinely banned. Many posts (organic and paid-for) are taken down after launch or suppressed, and comments and profile bios are being censored.
Women are not being allowed to own the narrative around their own bodies, female bodies are viewed through the lens of male sexuality and female-led brands cannot grow. Women are missing out on potentially life-saving information from charity and women’s health campaigns.
The situation also leads to self-censorship and body/health shame. None of this is true for men’s health issues or bodies. It’s hypocritical and must stop.
What can you do? Fill in our surveys above to help us collect your experiences of censorship.
Contact Us
Interested in working together? Get in touch for:
Our consulting services, workshops, talks
Expert comment
PR and marketing campaign/content collabs
We’re also looking for funding and practical help