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Keeping Each Other Safe Online: A Digital Guide for Abortion Justice Activists

Posted May 21, 2025 by the inroads team

In the face of escalating attacks on reproductive justice and increasing digital surveillance, abortion justice activists and seekers must take proactive steps to safeguard their online presence.  Digital platforms play a vital role in activism and information-sharing, but they also expose users to risks such as doxxing, surveillance, misinformation, and censorship. This guide outlines essential […]

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Course: Intersectionality and Reproductive Justice to Dismantle Abortion Stigma

Posted October 1, 2024 by the inroads team

Our FREE online course “Intersectionality & Reproductive Justice to Dismantle Abortion Stigma” is now live! 🎉 Join us on a learning journey to dismantle abortion stigma through an intersectional and reproductive justice lens. Learn how disability justice, queer abortions, and self-managed abortions intersect with abortion stigma, and gain key foundational knowledge to destigmatize abortions and […]

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Insights: Challenges and Opportunities to Improve Funding for Abortion Justice Worldwide

Posted July 1, 2024 by the inroads team

Funding is key to nurturing the resistance, creativity, and sustainability of the people powering the Reproductive Justice movement. Currently, less than 2% of traditional philanthropic funding goes to feminist and gender justice causes, and within that group, only a few cents go to abortion justice efforts. At this critical moment in history, when we face […]

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Publication | Our Collective Wisdom: A letter from the inroads cohorts

Posted July 5, 2023 by the inroads team

Dear stigma-busters This letter comes from the inroads community cohorts centering queer abortions, abortion justice intersections with disability justice, and abortion accompaniment. The missive is an invitation to engage with reflections to build caring spaces, equitable processes, authentic engagement, and fearless approaches toward a world without abortion stigma. A message filled with metaphors and collective […]

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Creative Storytelling Tools and Techniques for Destigmatizing Abortion

Posted January 18, 2023 by the inroads team

The capacity-strengthening online training for inroads members, Creative Storytelling Tools and Techniques for Destigmatizing Abortion, was facilitated by Amrita (she/her), founder and creator of “Shades of Brown Girl, on November 10, 2022. This session engaged with colour, metaphor, and monologue as creative storytelling tools for destigmatizing abortion experiences. Engaging participants in affective and embodied learning throughout […]

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Publication: Building Spacious Solidarity Dialogues

Posted January 4, 2023 by the inroads team

Aligned with our goal to build a values-driven and transparent organization, we crafted this document to share with our members the journey and the thought process behind the Spacious Solidarity Dialogues. A space for international solidarity, healing, reflection, and connection, that started during the pandemic and evolved into more complex mutual learning cohorts and multi-day […]

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Workbooks: Holistic Security for Abortion Stigma-Busting Work

Posted August 24, 2022 by the inroads team

The capacity-strengthening online training for inroads members, Holistic Security for Abortion Stigma-Busting Work, was conducted by Kinga Jelinska and Ivette Mrova of Women Help Women on 23 May 2022. Through a participatory process guided by context-based self-knowledge and reproductive justice principles, inroads members who attended were able to strengthen their capacity for holistic security through […]

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Care-mapping Workbooks

Posted July 5, 2022 by the inroads team

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 […]

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Queer Abortions Festival: Learnings and Workbook

Posted June 9, 2022 by the inroads team

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 […]

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Workbook: Mapping and Mobilizing Resources

Posted February 15, 2022 by the inroads team

The online training for inroads members Mapping and Mobilizing Resources for Abortion Stigma Busting Work, held on 19 January and 1 February 2022, was conducted by Xiomara Carballo Briceño.  Through a participatory process guided by collective care principles, inroads members who attended were able to strengthen their resource mobilization capacity through the exploration of key […]