During the month of July, we decided to experiment with new programming for our members within the inroads network. Over the years, the inroads team has been interested in facilitating and creating exchange spaces for members who work at stigma-busting through the arts. The arts is understood so differently across the world, but one thing […]

We gathered to redefine On May 21 2019, Our experiences learnings and feelings, online *Stigma does not rhyme, My Abortions are Fine* We created a safe, listening space by introducing ourselves with our name, country as well as three words that inspire us in our stigma-busting work. There were participants from Peru, Ireland, Mexico, US, […]

Twitter Talks are a new monthly discussion and open forum where inroads members can watch and participate in conversations between selected presenters who have been asked to tackle subjects around abortion stigma. In our first talk on May 2, 2019, members from India, USA, Mexico, Northern Ireland, and Brazil answered questions about the stigmas associated […]

Members of inroads make art to end stigma and use art in their activism regularly. Here we feature art-works, travelling exhibitions, multi-media displays, podcasts, sculptures, paintings, booklets, billboard displays and printed t-shirts, as inroads members busted stigma through art over the course of 2018. This is just a small sampling of what we know members […]

Registration is now open for the second inroads Global Member Gathering in Zagreb, Croatia on March 12-16, 2018. Learning from member input and experiences with past meetings, we designed a slightly different process for registering and for applying for financial support. You can register, apply for support, and submit an abstract in this one form. […]

Criminalization; restrictive policy; and discriminatory, non-scientific laws are all too familiar to those in the fight to secure the health, happiness, and rights of all people to abortion. When we focus on the individual policies and laws it can feel a little bit like we’re battling against a many headed dragon or, to use a […]

Member of inroads use many different modalities to disrupt, challenge, and end stigma and discrimination associated with abortion. Policy documents, protests, education programs, professional policies, media appearances, art, and legal briefs, but few are treated as both panacea and default as film and video are. It is true the video can connect us with emotions […]

If you’ve identified stigma as an issue in your community or context, and have an idea for what you can do, this webinar led by inroads members, Peg Johnson and Jeanne Ludlow of the Abortion Conversation Project can help ground your project idea in a shared understanding of how stigma affects us all, explore your […]

The inroads team is delighted to announce that registration and applications for financial support process for the 2017 Africa Regional inroads Member Gathering is now open. This 2-day gathering will be an action-packed gathering of mutual learning, workshops, updates, and collaboration open to any inroads members who are based in Africa or who do work […]

With a total of 61 participants from 30 countries around the world, the first-ever inroads Global Member Gathering took place in in Bangkok March 7-11. It was a truly global stigma-busting affair. Our understanding of the diversity of members in the room kept growing the more we learned about each other. By nearly every measure—age, […]