At Abortion Conversation Projects, your donation goes directly into the hands of artists and activists. At ACP, we bring together individuals and groups around the world to fight the stigma of abortion in their communities through funding their ideas and projects. Our grant partners work at the grassroots level, starting with intimate and powerful conversations to work toward lasting social change.
Fighting abortion stigma in our communities is important, as is fighting for accessible and fair abortion care for all. Even in places where abortion is legal and moderately available, cultural stigma against abortion prevents people from receiving needed care. This same stigma also prevents people from publicly supporting those who receive abortions.
Abortion stigma is a deliberate tactic to denigrate and erase
nuanced experiences of abortionists.
Abortion stigma is a deliberate tactic to denigrate and erase the unique experiences of those who have abortions. It doesn’t help that some pro-choice language is still binary and makes gender non-conforming, non-binary, and transgender individuals non-conforming. The stigma that exists within and outside of our emotional community causes both emotional harm.
Through our seed grant program, we fund artists, activists, writers, playwrights, musicians, and everyday people with big ideas. Creatives and activists often struggle to get funding for their work. This was further demonstrated at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. We are honored to keep our seed grant program running during the pandemic and play a part in supporting the arts for social change.
We are part of a global movement.
We are part of a global movement. Thanks to donations, we have funded 82 Grant Partnerships across the United States, Latin America, Africa, and Asia since 2012. Instead of providing American ideas to our international applicants, our grantees propose their own their projects for their local communities. ACP provides technical assistance, support, and brainstorming project implementation together. We will continue to work with domestic and global partners and develop knowledge together as long as there is funding support.
Even in an ideal world, where access to abortion is free, equal, and convenient, abortion stigma can be a persistent and dehumanizing barrier to services. We hope you will be able to support ACP’s mission to have open and honest conversations about pregnancy decisions that address abortion, life, death, parenting, gender and much more. We will never stop working to create safe spaces to exercise autonomy.
Join us in creating a world without abortion stigma. Donate here.
Tracia Banuelos is an ACP Board Member and a Graduate Student at Hunter and is very involved in social justice movements.
