2026 FCP Grant Recipient and Project

Abortion lives inside a fractured feminine-between Eve & Lilith, Madonna & Whore-pulled into a moral battleground where the womb is claimed by the State, reduced by pro-choice frameworks to a clinical event, and appropriated by anti-abortion narratives as "spiritual"terrain, leaving us, who've had abortions without language to hold this depth, and without practitioners trained to meet it. This work builds upon pockets of feminist work on abortion, to birth a lineage. I have spent the last two decades pouring over everything written on the topic to better understand my own abortions, and the experiences of the collective. The post-Roe feminists who pioneered emotional abortion counseling-and mentored me-are aging and passing on, and their work has not been integrated into abortion telehealth or virtual support.

In response to a world of increasing misogyny, was to birth Rouge Abortion Doula

School-which has now trained over 150 doulas in this new, evolved, model-teaching how to hold neutral space for individual truths to bloom. The choice of whether to give birth or to have an abortion is sacred, and must be made from agency in which the head, the heart, the womb and the sex are all aligned.

This year I begin my PhD at the African Gender Institute at the University of Cape Town, where I will spend the coming years writing and theorizing about abortion, transforming two decades of lived and learned experiences into this new framework. Core outputs include a digital abortion reflection tool - an evolution of earlier feminist resources not yet accessible to digital generations - a growing body of research, and a future book-length work. The €30,000 grant will serve as catalytic funding to advance this work at a critical stage, supporting the development of the digital tool, core personnel, and the research and dissemination necessary to formalize and scale this model across contexts.