apps

Phone a Friend with the Circle of 6 Violence Prevention App

Social Commentary post by Kelsey Wallace on March 20, 2012 - 11:48am; tagged apps, Circle of 6, Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month.

screen cap of the phone app showing six contacts in a circle

The Circle of 6 iPhone app, designed to prevent sexual assault and dating violence among young adults, launched today—just in time for Sexual Assault Awareness Month. And it's free!

Users of the app select six trusted friends—Circle of 6 provides tips on choosing them—to form a "circle." The app then allows you to send pre-programmed messages to your circle like "Come and get me. I need help getting home safely," and "Call and pretend you need me. I need an interruption" with just two taps of your phone.

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Revenge of the Feminerd: Feminism? There's an App for That

Social Commentary post by Jarrah Hodge on May 20, 2011 - 9:12am; tagged apps, General nerditry, ihollaback, iPhone, period tracker, revenge of the feminerd, safety siren.

YWCA Safety Siren App: A pink button with a woman symbol shown on an iPhone screen

Part of the reason the iPhone has been getting more buzz than other smartphones seems to be due to the plethora of apps available on the system (over 350,000 compared to just over 25,000 for Blackberry). And given some of the options we’ve seen, including hate-filled, sexist and homophobic propaganda, I thought it would be a good idea to profile some of the more positive options for feminists.

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Pro-life teen activism? There's an app for that.

Social Commentary post by Kjerstin Johnson on April 30, 2010 - 5:02pm; tagged apps, National Pro-Life T-shirt Day, pro-life, recruitment.

two whit teens wear prolife t shirts. this is a staged photo

I know it seems like National Pro-Life Cupcake Day was just yesterday, but there's another way to engage young people in the anti-choice movement: National Pro-Life T-Shirt week!!

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Control Womb

Article by Bree Kessler, Illustrated by Dani Crosby, appeared in issue Old; published in 2010; filed under Social commentary; tagged apps, fertility, fertility industry, iPhone, pregnancy, technology.

Want to get pregnant? There’s an app for that. Want to not get pregnant? There’s an app for that, too (and no, it’s not condoms). Want to know why you’re so damn moody? There’s—yep—an app for that. They could be considered the Our Bodies, Ourselves for the tech-savvy women of the 21st century: iPhone applications that inform women about the workings of their bodies without actually engaging with flesh and blood.

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