About
Trans Abortions Oral Histories started off as an independent research project as part of a master’s thesis and is growing to be a collective of trans, gender non-conforming folks dedicated to collecting, preserving/archiving, and sharing the stories of transgender, gender non-conforming (gnc), gender variant and expansive people who had/have sought out an abortion(s), and/or trans people who work in abortion access in many formations.
While this project is about preserving the stories of folks within the intersection of trans and abortion/s experience, we aim for this project to firstly heighten and center the experiences of Black, Indigenous, and people of color within the united states who have had an abortion(s) and/or are currently seeking/supporting abortion access.
This project is an ongoing public oral history project that aims to capture this ongoing moment/history of intensive reproductive regulation, banning, and criminalizing of both transness and abortion(s). As folks who live in the in-between of these spaces of state-sanctioned regulation/banning/criminalizing of our reproductive capacities (both social and biological) it’s important to understand the nuance and complex ways that trans gnc folks are building community, accessing health care, understanding our own lived identities and experiences, and supporting abortion access nationally.
Who can participate?
We don’t regulate/define how someone identifies or understands their gender identity – as transness is an expansive definition that encompasses (and at the same time doesn’t encompass) someone’s own understanding of their gender or lack of gender. We welcome anyone who does not identify with the gender they were assigned to at birth.
The project is aimed to center folks within the trans gnc communities that have been structurally marginalized and ignored in queer, lgb, and trans spaces. Black, Indigenous, and people of the global majority are prioritized. If you identify as a white trans GNC person, you can still support this project and share your story - please connect with us on ways to get involved.
If you have had and/or sought out an abortion(s) within in the US; including various abortion methods. And/or if you do reproductive justice work in any form that specifically focuses on abortion care, access, etc.
Who we are
Vrindavani (they/them) is a full spectrum birthworker, medi-cal doula provider, abortion scholar, and abolitionist supporting incarcerated folks in california prisons and jails.
As a gnc trans abortion haver, Vrindavani is interested in not only archiving the recent history of heightened regulation and understanding of reproductive control and injustice, but they are determined to organize and work towards an abolitionist reproductive justice future and present.