inroads joyously welcomed Jayati Doshi from sensemaking lab on 28 April 2022 to lead a Care-Mapping session as a part of our ongoing BYOQ (Bring Your Own Questions) series. We are pleased to share the offerings from our session that will allow you to bring care-mapping as an active practice to your own organizations and […]

We are excited to share that inroads will participate and host an Abortion Sentiment and Care space at the 10th Africa Conference on Sexual Health and Rights hosted by Purposeful in Sierra Leone from June 27th to July 1st, 2022. Inspired by the power of community, inroads is hosting this space for reflection, connection, expression, and joyful […]

We are happy to announce that inroads is launching a renovated and dynamic community workspace this week! Stigma thrives in darkness and isolation. It makes us believe that we are alone, that no one else cares, that no one else understands, that there is no hope. But we know that the reality is very different. We […]

The inroads Queer Abortions Festival was held from 30 March to 7 April 2022 over a total of 5 sessions. Sessions were conducted in English and Spanish, ranging from 1.5 to 3 hours.  The festival aimed to celebrate and bust the stigma of the lived experiences, intricacies, questions, and reflections surrounding queer abortions through various […]

The collaboration grants are designed to support collaborative efforts between two or more groups, collectives, or grassroots organizations, sharing a mutual interest in an abortion stigma reduction focus area, combining their different strengths, skills, and expertise to work on a joint abortion stigma reduction project. We are excited to share more about the diverse Grantee […]

Meet the 10 projects we are supporting with our inroads Partnership Fund (iPF) seed grants in 2021.  They are a diverse group of initiatives from fearless grassroots organizations dedicated to advancing stigma-free abortion access, representation, research, and education in their communities.  Sisters Taking Charge – Zambia Capacity Building for Traditional Birth Attendants  This project focuses […]

We are excited to share that we are co-organizing and hosting, with a diverse group of inroads members, a powerful panel at the RightsCon 2022 Summit titled Futuristic practices of Abortion Care: Diverse, Dignified, Digital Spaces for Informed and Accompanied Abortion. About the panel: Through the panel discussion, participants will learn about the futuristic and […]

LIVEI Rwanda is a gender justice and human rights organization. Its thematic areas include Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, including challenging the stigma related to abortion. The LIVEI Rwanda project that will be supported by inroads 2021 iPF Grants aims to harness storytelling models to reduce abortion stigma in Rwanda. LIVEI Rwanda has extensive […]

Abortion is careAbortion is autonomyAbortion is dignityAbortion is communityAbortion is healthcareAbortion is liberationAbortion is a fundamental human rightWe need to bust all abortion stigmaWe need to protect, defend, and support our abortion movements Our freedom to decide over our bodies is not up for debate. Supporting the reproductive justice movements, ensuring access to abortion services […]

At this fraught moment in history, I am thinking about two very large groups of people and feeling grief, anger, exhaustion, and resolve. First, I am thinking about the people who, in the next several years, are not going to get the abortions they need; about people who will stay in relationships they shouldn’t; people […]