Hannah's Holiday Abortion Gift Guide, Vol.2
Literally hide my credit card, please, my bank account is begging.
MERCH! MERCH! MERCH! Here are a few of my favorite pieces of clothing, household wares, stickers, and more—and they all benefit your local abortion fund or reproductive justice org. Which means that when you buy them you are:
a) Helping someone get their abortion (the impacts of which cannot be overstated—your $50 might be the reason someone is able to finish college, to have children in the future who will be amazing people, to escape an abusive relationship, to go to work and change other peoples’ lives. You might even be part of their ability to survive).
b) Signaling to others (your coworkers, students, friends, that cutie pie at the coffee shop you’ve been looking for a way to flirt with) that you’re cool as hell. Nothing has been a bigger conversation starter—not my tattoos, not my beautiful dog, not my beautiful baby—than an abortion fund logo or pro-abortion message somewhere on my body. I’ve had strangers cross the street or bookstore or parking lot to compliment and/or inquire about each and every one of the following:
PRESERVE ABORTION RIGHTS mugs, from
Holler Health Justice (a BIPOC- and queer-led racial, economic, and reproductive justice nonprofit in West Virginia). For your Kitchen Witch friend, your Appalachian friend, your friend who’s always trying to make you go to an orchard or send you TikToks about homesteading.
ABORTION ACCESS FOR ALL goldenrod tees/sweatshirts/tank tops, by Rachel Conroy, to benefit the National Network of Abortion Funds’ Collective Power Fund, the New York Abortion Access Fund, and the Southern Tier Fund. Isn’t this design a beaut? In all the colors and styles!
3. ABORTION. YOU BETCHA. beanie, from the North Dakota WIN Fund. I love the local flavor, the warm comfy material, and the laughter and compliments this hat elicits whenever I wear it—and I’m not even in the midwest!
FUCK ABORTION BANS tee from Midwest Access Coalition. Merry Christmas, Grandma! Nice to see you, Pastor John! For your friend who likes attention, or your friend who’s trying to do some hometown educating. All proceeds go directly to folks who have to travel for their abortions.
AID & ABET ABORTION spiral notebook from Reproductive Freedom Fund of New Hampshire. Their whole Etsy shop is golden—from the Funding Abortion is Hot Girl Shit stickers and pillows to the FUCK SCOTUS posters and mugs. But this little $12 number, with ruled line paper, is a perfect gift for your organizer friend.
EAT YOUR VEGGIES, FUND ABORTION sticker by The Tofu Press, to benefit NNAF. For your friend whose big reusable water bottle has never known a moment of naked peace
RHINESTONE FUND ABORTION HAIR PINS from NNAF. For your glam femmes, your disco dolls, your most sparkly pals.
A Preordered Copy of My Book, With a Personalized Holiday Card to The Recipient — As you know, because I am not contractually permitted to shut the hell up about it, 50% of my advance and 100% of my royalties from my first book are going to abortion funds. So please buy a copy for someone! And then just send me a little message or screenshot that includes their name and address, and (if you’d like) some details about who they are and why they’re so wonderful. I’ll write them (and then you!) a very personal love letter, in a beautiful card honoring whichever winter holiday(s) they celebrate, and I will almost definitely include some little stickers, zines, poems, and/or other surprise goodies. xoxoxo
There are so, so, so many more gifts— the TGFA Pro God/Pro Baby/Pro Abortion Baby Onesies and the Missouri Abortion Fund A is for Abortion Baby Onesies, the Fund Abortion Build Power refreshing drink koozies, the gorgeous Indigenous Women Rising/New Mexico Abortion Funds tote bags, the Mife & Miso earrings and Abortion Pills Forever necklace from SYA. I really can’t think of anything more beautiful than funding a stranger’s abortion, travel, or practical support in the form of a gift to a comrade or community member, thus expressing your love and gratitude and solidarity to them, while also! Spreading the good word of your chosen fund/org wherever they go. The layers and layers of care in this one simple $10 or $25 or $50 act.
And I’ve left the comments open on this post—share your own favorite abortion fund merch, or the products that benefit YOUR organization or fund! Drop your links here for more holiday shopping.
Love,
Hannah