This year, inroads brought abortion justice movements’ spaces, practices, and insights to the Global Gathering for Digital Rights — an international convening that brings together digital rights defenders from around the world for collaboration, knowledge-sharing, and co-created activities focused on digital rights, online security for civil society, and the growing challenges at the intersection of human rights and technology.

At this powerful gathering, we hosted three deeply participatory spaces that explored what it means to defend stigma-free abortion access, bodily autonomy, and collective safety in an era of algorithmic suppression, digital censorship, and digital surveillance.

Across circle discussions and creative booth activities, participants shared strategies, co-created tools, and strengthened cross-movement alliances rooted in care, resistance, and digital freedom.

Keep reading to learn more about the spaces we hosted!

Circle: Digital Rights, Narrative Change & Reproductive Justice

In partnership with Women on Web and TICAH, inroads convened a powerful cross-movement Circle on how digital censorship and surveillance are impacting abortion justice efforts. Participants shared the strategies they use to resist repression in their own contexts,  and identified key gaps in the reproductive justice ecosystem, including the need for safer cross-border funding pathways, legal support, accessible digital security coaching, and collective mapping of digital repression. Participants emphasized the need to bring grassroots organizers into tech conversations and build futures beyond reliance on big tech.

The Circle reaffirmed a shared understanding: defending abortion rights today requires aligned work across digital rights, narrative power, and holistic safety, and stronger cross-movement collaboration, and this session marked a meaningful step toward building that shared infrastructure of care, protection, and strategy.

Booth: Invisible by Algorithmic Design – Rights-Based Perspectives on Content Suppression

One of the key themes the inroads booth spotlighted is the systematic algorithmic censorship of content on sexuality education, abortion, reproductive healthcare, menstrual health, sex work, and GBV, and a creative tool to help navigate this challenge: Algospeak.net.

Algospeak.net is a crowd-sourced project resisting suppression by documenting and sharing alternative words used to navigate restrictive algorithms. The booth offered an interactive space where people could learn about the platform and contribute new terms, discuss their experiences with bans, takedowns, and shadowbanning, and reflect on what inclusive, rights-based platform governance could look like.

Booth: Abortion Movements’ Digital Safety & Collective Power:  Oracle Deck Co-creation

Abortion justice movements have long operated under conditions of risk. For centuries, abortion defenders have built networks of care while navigating criminalization, stigma, and surveillance. Long before the internet, they were crafting coded language, underground channels, and secure mutual aid systems to protect each other and provide access to vital information and care.

Harnessing that long history of resistance, inroads hosted a creative, collaborative space where art, digital security, and feminist wisdom came together with the Abortion Digital Security Oracle Deck, a tool co-created with and for abortion justice movements to support regular and accessible digital and holistic security check-ins within collectives and movements. 

Using prototype cards, including many contributed by partners and inroads members such as Vital Global, Women on Web, and TICAH, participants were able to reflect on their digital security practices, and to share their wisdom by creating new Oracle cards sharing tools, tips, and reflections for collective digital care and protection.

Dozens of new cards were created and added to the emerging open-access deck. The space held joy, reflection, solidarity, and the intergenerational knowledge of abortion defenders who have always creatively built secure networks—from coded language and underground channels to today’s encrypted tools and community-led safety practices.

This booth reaffirmed the power of feminist creativity to turn security from a burden into a collective and sustaining practice.

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Together, these three spaces brought tools, conversations, and built bridges across movements and allies. As digital repression intensifies globally, inroads remains committed to supporting abortion justice movements building a happier, healthier, and more just world.