Dear inroads community,

2024 asked us to weave with courage. Threads of funding thinned, right-wing forces tightened their grip, and spaces grew more hostile. Yet together, we created a tapestry of resistance and care for abortion justice around the world.

We invite you to explore the journey illustrated in our 2024 report here.

Excerpt from the report foreword:

In 2024, the tapestry transformed. What began as an experiment became embodied: inroads is now fully led through a co-leadership model grounded in participation, trust, and community wisdom. The weave is tighter, stronger, and more beautifully unpredictable—held by many hands, guided by many hearts.

Even as the threads of funding thinned, we spun new strands—building partnerships, mapping scenario plans, and forming consortia that hold space for both imagination and strategy.

We didn’t just weather scarcity. We dreamed beyond it.

Our work continues to be anchored in the belief that everyone deserves to have dignified and stigma free access to abortions. That remains our guiding pattern even as we weave with partners and co-conspirators focused on other key areas in the work towards justice.

From murals to zines, poems to policies, we carried the movement forward through culture and care—crafting art exhibitions, narrative-shifting campaigns, and solidarity-centered convenings.

All of this was made possible by the many hands in our community: members, partners, grantee teams, and allies. In 2024, we not only strengthened our existing partnerships but formed new relationships rooted in shared values and mutual trust.

A tapestry of resilience in uncertain times

We cannot reflect on 2024 without naming the threads under tension.

Across the globe, funding for abortion justice and its interconnected movements—Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, Human Rights, Gender Justice—continues to shrink. Resources that were once growing have become conditional, delayed, or altogether disappeared, leaving frontline organizers to stitch safety nets out of scarcity.

The rise of emboldened right-wing forces, now entangled with powerful tech platforms and financial actors, has further complicated the terrain. Our digital organizing spaces, once vibrant grounds for solidarity and strategy, are increasingly surveilled, censored, and threatened. In too many places, expressing support for abortion justice can mean risking visibility, safety, and freedom.

We’ve also witnessed the violent unpredictability of global power. From war zones to regions under occupation and authoritarian rule, our communities are navigating not just economic precarity—but physical insecurity, displacement, and trauma. These conditions deeply affect the grassroots organizers and collectives at the heart of inroads—especially those working at the intersections of conflict, colonization, and criminalization.

And yet, we continue to survive together and hold each other.

Through each frayed edge, new fibers emerge. Our threads remain interwoven with purpose, care, and creativity. We mend, we adapt, we stretch across borders and weave across differences. We create beauty and strength in every knot, loop, and patch.

This community is not only resilient—it is visionary.

With each gathering, each campaign, each resource shared, we affirm: the fabric of abortion justice will not unravel. We are the weavers, the storytellers, the artists, the strategists, the caregivers. And together, we are sustaining something that has always been powerful—even when unseen.

Making inroads into the future

We know the road ahead is not without challenges—particularly for feminist organizations like ours in this global funding climate. But we are deeply grateful to be walking it with each of you.

In solidarity and appreciation,

Aditi, Christine and Kati
inroads Co-leads

This report was beautifully illustrated by Mexican artist and activist Alina Galo.