Raksha Muthukumar
Tech & labor.
Sex, moderation, & censorship.
In 2021, I became a founding member and spokesperson for Google's workers union and was named as a top tech activist by Business Insider. Now, I'm a freelance tech journalist, public speaker, and consultant.
My bylines can be found in Mashable, Them Magazine, and The Daily Dot. I've given talks in Berlin, Paris, Brussels, Rotterdam, and at institutions like Stanford and the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. I have consulted for the European Sex Workers Rights Alliance, Queer in AI, and the Ruby on Rails Conference.
Since leaving the tech industry, I've worked at nonprofits with focus areas such as sex education and police abolition. I offer political education on censorship and surveillance for marginalized communities (activists, sex workers, immigrants, etc.)
I'm based out of New York City and Paris.
Latest Events
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June 18-19th, 2026 (Mainz, Germany) Serious Play Conference -- Empowerment vs Censorship: Sex Ed in Games
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April 10-11, 2026 (Berlin, Germany) Cables of Resistance: Movements Conference against Big Tech -- Navigating censorship & digital exclusion: what we can learn from adult content creators
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March 21, 2026 (Paris, France) Tribe-X Decolonize Tech: Alternative Worlds conference -- Critical Discussion of Surveillance Technologies: Sex Work & Beyond
New Writing
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June 8, 2026 (Mashable) : How sex workers are protecting their digital futures — and yours
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January 30, 2026 (Mashable) : Adult creators are still getting debanked — but it doesn't just impact them
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May 6, 2026 (Vagina Museum, London) : Lip Service Issue #5 - Sex Work & Decriminalisation
Other Projects
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European Sex Workers Rights Alliance (ESWA) - Website Redesigner
Journalism
Mashable
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How to seek an abortion while protecting your digital privacy (March 2025)
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The perks and pitfalls of hypervisible polyamorous breakups online (December 2024)
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Top 5 digital security tips from sex workers (April 2024)
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Why these former tech workers became sex workers — and love their new lives (Nov 2023)
Tech Workers Coalition Newsletter: Who’s Cleaning Twitter? (Feb 2023)
[ARCHIVED] PBS Rewire: How Polyamorous People Are Dating Again After Vaccination (August 2021)
[ARCHIVED] Daily Dot: How the pandemic is placing undue burdens on entry-level employees (Jan 2021)
Them Magazine: How Queer Sex Workers Can Help Us Learn to Love Ourselves (Aug 2022)
Wussy Mag: Digital Sex & Social Distancing: A Guide to Getting Your Rocks Off Remotely (April 2020)
Public Speaking
Panel Moderator at Global Data Innovation Summit 2026 (Brussels, Belgium): How Teams Can Rapidly and Effectively Adopt AI and Adjust to a Changing Employment Environment
Stanford Bloomberg Beta: tech ethics class (Feb 2022)
Rotterdam School of Management: Organizations & Social Movements class (Feb 2022, Feb 2023, Dec 2024)
Sustainable ICT (SICT) Doctoral School: Perspectives & Choices in ICT (Winter 2024)
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction: DEI keynote (March 2023)
Rosa-Luxemburg Foundation (May 2021)
University of Edinburgh: Sustainability & AI Futures workshop (Jan 2023)
University of Michigan SAAN Conference: Advocating for Ourselves & Others in the Workplace (April 2022)
University of Utah: Tech Workers and the Leftist Movement (March 2021, Feb 2022)
Boise State University: Navigating You Queer Career (Dec 2021)
Press
Yahoo Finance: Google worker on union: Employees need to re-claim their ‘workplace power’ (Jan 2021)
NPR: Google Workers Speak Out About Why They Formed A Union: 'To Protect Ourselves' (Jan 2021)
Al Jazeera Calls to tackle caste-based discrimination in US gather steam (May 2021)
Consulting
Lambda Literary (2024-2025)
American Repertory Theater at Harvard (Fall 2022)
Queer in AI (Fall 2022)
Justice Speaks PR (Winter 2024)
Ruby on Rails Conference (Dec 2022)
Tech Education
Brains & Motion education summer camps (Summer 2025)
Girls Who Code (Summer 2018)
Google's Computer Science Summer Institute (Summer 2019)
Writing For Fun
Short Fiction
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Heroines Anthology: Volume 3 (Long-listed for Heroines Women’s Writing Prize 2020) ‘Beloved of Our Beloved’
Poetry
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The Bitchin’ Kitsch (Vol 14, Issue 3 - Summer 2023) ‘Poetry Submission Aug 14 2022’
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Dipthong Lit (Fall 2022 Issue) ‘The Stairs Look Blue’
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Messy Misfits Club (Issue 3) ‘chaque baise lesbienne’
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Hand Picked Poetry (Issue 1) ‘chaque baise lesbienne’
Nonfiction
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Temz Review (July 2026) Review of Arundhati Roy's Mother Mary Comes to Me
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untold: defining moments of the uprooted (March 2021) ‘Kirby Jackson’
Op-Eds
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TechWorker.com: Union organizing in your workplace? Here’s how to handle the internal conflicts (Feb 2021)
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XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students (Association for Computing Machinery) Asian-Americans, we must resign from our role as Silicon Valley's model minority mascot (July 2022)
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Tech Workers Coalition Newsletter
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Telling The Truth About 'Tech For Good' (Nov 2020)
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Googlers Are Forming a Union (Jan 2021)
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