At the recent Global Artivism Convening, inroads co-organized the session Forging Feminist Pathways to Reproductive Justice in partnership with Everystory Sri Lanka, Bloco Ay Que Alivio, and Instituto Lamparina. A space to explore how feminist storytelling and artivism can transform research, lived experience, and collective struggle into emotional narratives that move and transform. 

Moderated by Gabi Juns from Institulo Lamparina, the session featured two powerful speakers: 

Widya Kumarasinghe, co-founder of Everystory Sri Lanka, spoke about the power of transforming community research and testimony into stories told with care, consent, and emotional safety. She highlighted how storytelling can shift public understanding, strengthen solidarity, and support long-term narrative change in Sri Lanka and South Asia.

Explore one of their powerful storytelling projects below:

Ana from Bloco Ay Que Alívio!, a carnival-style musical project that uses humor and music to talk openly about abortion, grounded the very real relief many people feel when accessing safe, self-managed abortion care. Her reflections showed how joy, culture, and public celebration can challenge taboos, transform narratives, and support the social decriminalization of abortion. We were proud to call Ana an inroads member and to have been able to resource her participation in this event, and the inception of this creative stigma-busting initiative through the Abortion Community Care Bloom Grants.

Enjoy some of their powerful carnival songs in the video below:

From turning research into stories that connect to bringing joyful abortion narratives to life through music and carnival, this space explored how artivism and creative storytelling can dismantle stigma and be revolutionary tools to shift narratives.

RESOURCING NARRATIVE TRANSFORMATION

The session left us with a powerful reminder: narratives change when people feel seen, held, and invited into possibility. If we want abortion justice narratives that resonate beyond policy spaces and into everyday life, we must invest in feminist artivism and the communities shaping it.

Join us in supporting abortion storytellers, artivists, narrative practitioners, and cultural creatives who are transforming stigma into solidarity and care. Because narrative change is not an abstract goal, but a practice we must resource together. 💚