Welcome to 2026 and welcome back to Power in Our Hands: A Self-Managed Abortion Learning Series.
In this edition, Care as Resistance, we explore how to support collective care networks—like the ones abortion funds create. Learn about our shared history of oppression and the legacy of resistance in justice movements. Gain new ways to build power and community for the people you love.
Commit to Community Safety.
Every day, we see and feel the harm of state-sanctioned terror that’s deemed “legal.”
People are being detained and disappeared. They are facing deadly consequences for public acts of resistance. In the face of this structural violence, mutual aid community defense networks keep showing up.
We make liberation more possible each time we actively care for each other.
In community, we can expand into the lives we are worthy of living. We can collectively build power and resistance to create more just conditions. We can build alternatives to the violent systems of policing, punishment, and caging. And we can meet each other with tenderness and compassion.
Abortion funds know that in community, we thrive.
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Resistance is Our Shared Legacy.
Did you know: Abortion supporters and abortion funds play a crucial role in giving folks the information they need to actively fight against criminalization. History shows that collective and strategic risk has allowed our communities to reclaim power and organize to keep people safer from acts of state-sanctioned harm and violence.
From Disability Justice movements across the U.S. to Zapatistas fighting for Indigenous rights in Mexico and transnational fights for Black Power, resistance is deeply ingrained in our movements and lineages.
Reproductive Justice groups have chartered ships out to international waters, created robotic technology to coordinate remote distribution of abortion pills, and taken to the air to support folks with self-managed abortions.
Abortion funds have created mobile clinics to get people the care they need and expanded capacity to increase funding for telehealth access across states.
Fund leaders have long taken on organizational and often personal risk to make abortion access more possible for their communities.
We Got Us. No Matter Where.
Community care means showing up for each other and creating safety every day.
We practice this care through grounded connection, support for one another, and mutual aid. Funding someone’s abortion is a revolutionary act of mutual aid and direct community support.
How will you protect the bodily autonomy of the people you love?
Journal Reflection 📓: What will you risk for liberation? What feels challenging but doable? We can maintain broader webs of collective safety when more people take on risk, according to their positionality. Explore the ways that prisons and policing, imperialism, capitalism, white supremacy, anti-Blackness, racism, misogyny, transmisogyny, queerphobia, and anti-abortion stigma and violence show up in your life and for those around you.
Phone a Pal 📱: Does resistance feel more possible with a buddy? Make a plan with a friend. Building community safety and community care is a form of collective resistance. Even small acts taken together weave stronger safety nets for us all. Deepen relationships and trust with one another—aunties, primos, chosen family—and encourage others to act with care, not punishment.
Commit to Resist 🖊: Commit to resisting structures of criminalization and reporting when you are able to do so. Capture your commitment to yourself and your community. Write, draw, or paint what it means to you to lovingly remind yourself of it. If you feel comfortable, share! Your offering may be just the medicine someone else needs.
Learn, Reflect, Grow 📚: Start with more wisdom from disabled oracle and fierce Disability Justice leader, Alice Wong, who became a movement ancestor this past November, “When something can’t be fixed then the question is what can we build instead?”
As we deepen our networks of care and community, abortion funds are led by our vision for a safer, more liberated future for all communities. Meet us in your inbox—or on the Power in Our Hands page! Keep learning with us.