Dear supporters

This summer over 18,000 of you signed a petition to ask Instagram to stop banning pole dance hashtags and hiding content. We got results! An Instagram/Facebook spokesperson actually apologized and Instagram reinstated many of the blocked hashtags. We were pretty happy.

But a few months later, it hasn’t got much better. Shadowbanning, hiding or blocking content and hashtags, reducing visibility of content which is not in breach of Instagram’s community guidelines is still going on. It’s not just pole people affected. We have found that many other diverse groups are also lamenting what they experience as discrimination, content hidden, visibility reduced, accounts deleted. Those affected include People of Color, LGBTQIA folk, artists, photographers, athletes, yogis, dancers, sex workers and educators,  body positive accounts, mental health, feminist, disability activists and many more.

This is unfair. Why are some people not allowed to be visible? What message does it send if the skin you are in, the way you live, love and move through life is inappropriate and must be hidden and censored from your community? 


EVERYBODYVISIBLE.COM

We have started a movement, called EveryBODYVisible and joined up as allies to ask Instagram to review their illogical discriminatory practices. On October 29, International Internet Day we are asking social media users to post using one hashtag, share stories, tag friends and tag Instagram chiefs. We will be talking to the media and raising awareness and asking for answers. 

We want to make the Internet a fairer, more welcoming place. 
Will you join us? 
Check our website www.everyBODYvisible.com for more

Thank you

Rachel and the EveryBODYvisible team