NEW YORK FOR ABORTION
Role: Designer & Illustrator
Year: 2025
Campaign: United States for Abortion, a collective abortion-justice campaign
Scope: Limited-edition graphic and wearable design for abortion-justice advocacy
Collective: 50+ contributing designers
Press: Featured in Ms. Magazine
OVERVIEW
New York for Abortion is an abortion justice graphic I designed as part of United States for Abortion, a collective campaign bringing together more than 50 designers nationwide to make the case for accessible, legal, and free abortion. My contribution draws on diasporic kinship vocabulary to argue that the people seeking abortion care could be your family. The design positions reproductive access not as an abstract political question but as an intimate, relational one.
CHALLENGE
In the post-Dobbs landscape, the case for abortion access needs new visual vocabularies, not louder versions of the slogans that have circulated for decades. Mainstream feminist messaging has historically centered a narrow range of voices, often leaving diasporic and immigrant communities outside its frame of reference. The challenge for this design was to make abortion access feel personal and relational rather than abstract, by drawing on a kinship vocabulary specific to my own position. The goal was to invite recognition across cultural lines.
APPROACH
UNITED STATES FOR ABORTION
I designed emotionally resonant, action-oriented graphics for advocacy campaigns aimed at empowering abortion justice. My work was featured on Ms. magazine, the forefront of feminist journalism for half a century. You can find the article here.
NEW YORK FOR ABORTION
New York City is one of the most culturally and demographically diverse cities in the world. In many cultures, including my own, we call people outside our family “aunties” and “uncles,” underscoring a strong sense of community. Everyone has the right to access abortion freely and peacefully, without protests or interference, ensuring that socioeconomic factors are never a barrier to essential care.
IMPACT
New York for Abortion was featured in Ms. Magazine, signaling recognition from one of the most influential feminist publications of the past half-century, which isa meaningful endorsement for a design rooted in diasporic specificity rather than mainstream feminist iconography. Beyond the press coverage, the auntie framing prompted personal responses from viewers across cultural backgrounds, many of whom recognized their own kinship vocabularies in the work and saw their families and communities reflected in a movement that has rarely centered them. The project has opened ongoing conversations and future opportunities for design that takes diasporic positionality seriously as a site of political imagination.