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inroads Fellowships
inroads fellowships are a collective process that bring members together around a unique abortion stigma-busting theme. The purpose of our fellowships is to be a space of mutual learning, creativity, and joy that begins from a space of questions rather than pre-decided notions, and encourages exploration rather than predetermined expertise on the topic area. The vision is that fellowships inspire and support members to engage in intersectional stigma-busting and cross-movement conversations & initiatives centering abortion justice and decolonial practices for our collective liberation.
THE FELLOWSHIP FORMAT
Over the course of 3 to 6 months, fellows engage in mutual sharing and learning circles (often referred to as “co-learning circles) with other fellows and inroads members from diverse contexts, engaging with the topic at hand creatively, thoughtfully, and asynchronously within their own communities and surroundings, and also participating in guided activities shared by the fellowship advisors. Fellows develop a personal or collective project that reflects and is created around the theme of the fellowship, with the aim that the project can be shared with their own communities and the larger global inroads network. To support their participation and to honor their work and contributions, all fellows are given a stipend of USD 1000 for the period of the fellowship.
APPLICATION & SELECTION PROCESS
All inroads members are invited to apply to the fellowships by filling out a form that is available in English, Spanish or French. Applicants who meet the basic eligibility criteria of being an inroads member and using non-stigmatizing language in their fellowship application are then moved to a collective selection process, led by a member advisory panel of 4 to 5 inroads members, to encourage starting from a place of experience, questioning and creativity.
UPCOMING FELLOWSHIPS
PAST FELLOWSHIPS
Introducing the 2022 Artists Busting Abortion Stigma fellows.
Ale Mujica Rodriguez
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Antonella Barone
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Asia Bordowa
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Brita Kigambo
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Carmina Orta
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Cecilia Prado Godínez
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Dana Kaufman
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Erandini Catalina Alvarado Villega
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Itumeleng Letsoalo
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Julia López Valenzuela
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Karolina Więckiewicz
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Lisandria Thompson
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Manisha Thapa
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Merlina Anunnaki (Pamela Mercado)
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Milagros Olivera Noriega
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Selva Félix
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Verónica Vera
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Yela Quim
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Meet the Fellowship Community Advisors
Ana Gutiérrez Salgado
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Ana is a Mexican documentary filmmaker. They produced, directed, and edited documentary short films on abortion, the history of the Mexican lesbian movement, femicides, and territory defense in rural communities, among others. They are a member of the En Nepantla Collective, which is producing a full-length documentary film about access to abortion at the border between Mexico and U.S. You can watch their work on their Vimeo channel.
Saint Ashley
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Saint is a Jamaican researcher, linguist, and writer. Their publications have been housed in magazines in the United States and the United Kingdom. Their research tools have been put to use in existing advocacy efforts in Jamaica as well as to shape startups in the non-profit landscape. With advocacy experience rooted in years of work surrounding Gender Theory and being trained in Communicative and Social Behaviours, their sustained interest in gender justice is an interest indulged and skill honed. Saint is non-binary and transmasculine and interchangeably uses he/him and they/them pronoun sets in all situations requiring a gendered reference. They work with WE-Change Jamaica.
Surabhi Srivastava
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Surabhi (she/her) is Indian storyteller and creator passionate about, and committed towards, advancing the sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) of young people globally, using both digital media and offline tools to engage, empower, and mobilize young people for social change. She is also an amateur podcaster, and has produced and hosted podcasts on reproductive justice and global development issues. Surabhi has a master's degree in public health and social policy respectively, and is from Mumbai, India. She currently works with RNW Media in the Netherlands..
Viva Ruiz
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Viva Ruiz is a community, family, street, strip bar & nightclub educated artist and advocate. The progeny of factory-working Ecuadorian migrants raised in Jamaica Queens. Mad that her colonizer ancestors were revered while her indigenous ancestors were erased. Standing on the shoulders of many, eager to celebrate and be in service to the spirits that love and walk with me. A maker working in multiple mediums aspiring to bring joy to spaces and people that the institution of art ignores. Excited about making work that's accessible to many and about pop. Building power and birthing pro-abortion propaganda with the Thank God For Abortion experiment, recent awarded Creative Capital grant for this project.