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Panels & Talks

2025 upcoming RightsCon 2025 Lighting Talk “Don’t delete art: why content moderation must account for artistic context”

2025 SHEROES Thursdays: Women Activist Artists on Social Media Censorship, Sheroes Collective, Feb 6

2024 Restrictions on the Risqué: Censorship & Sexual Freedom in 2024, panel, Woodhull Freedom Foundation

2024 THE PANOPTICON EFFECT: A DISCUSSION ON ARTISTIC SELF-CENSORSHIP , workshop in collaboration with Liza Shkirando and BONFIRE

2024 Artists’ and Researcher Talk: The Body Room, Goldsmiths University, London, May 30

2024 Don’t Delete Art: Is Social Media Beyond Our Control? Panel, Dangerous Art, Endangered Artists series presented by Artists At Risk Connection and Art At A Time Like This at the Independent Art Fair

2024 Máster en Mercado Int. de Arte Contemporáneo, Valencia, Spain, Speaker, April 27

2024. Decentraland Wellness Week, Keynote Panel “Healthier Relationships with Social Media & Online Platforms,” January 24

2023 Woodhull Freedom Foundation, “We Removed Your Post!” , October 24

2023 RightsCon, “Artists Have Digital Rights, Too” workshop with NCAC and EFF, June 6

2023 London Drawing Group “Art Censorship: The Call Is Coming From Inside The House" April 17

2023 Arts Letters and Numbers, Artist Censorship in the Digital World, March 6

2022 World Ethical Data Forum 2022, Speaker “Block Mute Report”

2022 Unit London, Navigating Sensitive Content, Panel, London, UK, Sept 20

2022 Washington and Lee University Law School, “Gender and the Law” Guest Lecturer

2021 London Drawing Group, “Who’s Afraid of the Female Nipple?”, Lecturer, London, UK, May 31

2021 London Drawing Group, “Censored Bodies Talk Back”, Panel Moderator, London, UK, June 3

Selected Interviews/Features

2025 Women United podcast

2025 Art Versus the Algorithm, podcast

2024 Electronic Frontier Foundation, Speaking Freely: Interview with Emma Shapiro, March

2024 El Periodico, Catalunya, “20 años después del 'pezongate', las tetas de las mujeres siguen siendo tabú,” Feb 3

2023 Women As/In Art, podcast episode 18

2023 Hyperallergic, In NYC Protest, Activists Tell Meta to Stop Deleting Art, June 16

2023 The Art Newspaper, The Week In Art podcast, March 24

2023 Levante, “Mujer, Artista, Y Activista por el Cuerpo Feminino,” March 20

2022 Featured Artist/Activist, Feminist Zine commissioned by WeTransfer

2022 Télam Argentina, “Cuerpos desnudos y activismos Lgbtq+: las redes sociales avanzan con la censura del arte,” Dec 4

2021 Women Photographers History, IG Live Interview, Sept 30

2021 A Punt Media news broadcast, Feature Interview, Sept 14 (begin 44:23)

2021 FreeMuse.org, “Interview with American Visual Artist Emma Shapiro”, “Reclaiming The Space” Campaign, Aug 25

2021 Creme Guides, Esther Harrison, “Body Positivity? Frauen(-Körper) in der Kunst und Medien”, Esther Harrison, March 3

2020 Happy Gals Podcast, "Nipples, Censorship, Art Modeling and the Female Gaze" Alessia Galatini, May 18

2020 Curated By Girls, "Emma Shapiro: Artist & Activist", , May

2020 Jessica De La Torre, "Exposure Therapy, A Movement Toward Liberating the Female Body", Medium, April 14

2020 Foto Femme United, "Interview: Emma Shapiro" , March 30

2019 RISD XYZ, "High Time For Exposure Therapy" Sp/Su “Freedom” Issue p8-12

2019 Awesome Without Borders, "Grant #334 Exposure Therapy", January 19