Women's Foundation Updates
Planning is power and self-determination
Becoming a parent has made me more attuned to the invisible scaffolding that holds certain lives up. I had the […]
What a History Month Is For
There is something both beautiful and insufficient about a history month. It can feel like a cry through a storm, […]
Introducing the Draper|Paiva Feminist Legacy Fund for Bodily Autonomy
In 2024, Lee Draper and Thomas Paiva made a powerful planned gift, pledging half their wealth to establish the Draper|Paiva […]
Tomorrow We Withhold Our Labor
We are not surprised. We are prepared. I grew up under a military dictatorship in Brazil. I know how authoritarianism […]
Violence is Not Theory. Neither is Our Resistance
One year into this administration, we know violence is not theory. We see it as four children, including a five […]
Let 2026 be the Year We Abolish ICE
Yesterday, the country woke up to the news of state violence: Renee Nicole Good was clearly murdered by an ICE […]
Fight Fascism, Fund Feminism
We made it to a new year. Out with the old and in with the new, as the saying goes. […]
This instant, this triumph
Let us keep building our feminist future together. A Litany for Survival by Audre Lorde For those of us who […]
We won’t wait 100 years!
Join the Continuum and rewrite the timeline to equity. Every child born today deserves a future where gender equity isn’t […]
Multiyear Funding is Our Answer
Every year around this time, we’re encouraged to think in short bursts: one gift, one action, one deadline before midnight. […]
Reproductive Justice Needs You—Here’s How We Can Help
For over 45 years, Women’s Foundation California has believed in a simple premise: reproductive justice is not a single issue. […]
Trans Liberation is Feminist Liberation
History isn’t passive, it isn’t something we inherit, it is something we build. Trans history is alive in our homes, […]
Leadership, Joy, and Resistance
As days get shorter and a bit colder, we’re searching for that little bit of light as we look to […]
Enter our 2025 Feminist Gift Guide
Stop shopping like a zombie. Start giving like a feminist. The holiday season is here, tugging at us with the […]
ICE is Only Part of the Problem
2025 has felt like a year spent on defense. We have watched communities across California navigate fear, raids, displacement, and […]
The HOME Cohort Building What the White House Won’t
photo of this year’s VOCA rally at the Capital in Sacramento via California Partnership to End Domestic Violence Homelessness gets […]
Will You Join With Us?
Some years feel like they’re happening in fast-forward, every week a new headline that feels like a sequel to the […]
If you’re a billionaire… why are you a billionaire?
A couple weeks ago, while accepting her WSJ Music Innovator award, Billie Eilish looked out at a room filled with […]
Sustaining the Work That Sustains Us
We need the kind of change that actually lasts, the kind that rewrites systems and reimagines what is possible. This […]
ICE and Border Patrol Are Not Welcome in California | ICE y la Patrulla Fronteriza No Son Bienvenidos en California
There are mornings when the news feels like a punch to the gut. Today is one of them. The announcement […]
Indigenous Sovereignty Is Feminist Justice
Today, on Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we honor the resilience, leadership, and unbroken presence of Indigenous peoples across California. We acknowledge […]
Annual Report 2025: A Call to Action
In a year when grassroots communities face mounting attacks and our country tilts toward authoritarianism, what holds us steady are […]
Grief, Justice, and the Test Before Us
Anniversaries have a way of pulling us backward and forward at once. October 7 lives in that space — a […]
This California, Our California
There is no California without Latinos—we know this. Our history, culture, and community have been embedded in this state for […]
California can choose care over cruelty — SB 418 & AB 969
One of the most important things California does—maybe the most important thing—is decide what kind of state it wants to […]
California can’t afford to look away
We are living through a time when our democracy feels like it is coming apart at the seams. Authoritarianism is […]
My Summer with WFC & the Transformative Beauty of SLI
In early May of this summer, I eagerly opened my laptop to await an email from HR. It was the […]
For every trans child
August is Transgender History Month—a reminder that history isn’t just in books, plaques, or archives. It is alive, unfolding around […]
Culture change is where the future begins
Laws are the bones of a society, but culture is its breath. And right now—as our communities face violence and oppression, […]
Here’s how California can do better for domestic violence survivors
When we talk about domestic violence, the conversation often narrows to what happens behind closed doors. But that framing misses […]
What’s a feminist inheritance?
When we co-founded Women’s Foundation California, I was just 28 years old — young, determined, and driven by the belief […]
Resting Together, Rooted in Care
This week, Women’s Foundation California is slowing down. We’re not all stepping away—but we are all making space. Each year, […]
Real Change Starts Local: Meet the 2025 SPI Local Teams
If you want to understand how power works in the United States, don’t just look at Congress. Look at neighbors […]
Celebrating my 69th birthday with 25 young feminists
Last week in Sonoma County, at our 2025 Summer Leadership Institute, I got to celebrate my 69th birthday surrounded by old […]
MacArthur Park. ICE Funding. What Happens Next is Up to Us.
Monday, armed troops stormed MacArthur Park in Los Angeles—terrorizing street vendors, elders, and even children at a summer camp. “One […]
Today, We Choose Each Other
Today, as flags rise and fireworks fly, we remember that this country was built on protest—and the truest form of […]
Fix the System, Protect the Survivor: Support AB 969
Our Economic Security SPI-State team is driving real change—this time by taking on the ways California’s public benefits system can […]
This Is What Survivor-Centered Policy Looks Like—Support AB 878
The Sheltering Survivors team—our fierce SPI-State leaders—have been moving AB 878 with brilliance and grit from day one. This bill […]
They came for our bodies. We’re coming for the system.
Three years ago this week, Roe v. Wade was overturned. The state didn’t just come for abortion—it came for the heart […]
Introducing Our 2025 Summer Leadership Institute Fellows
Meet our 2025 Summer Leadership Institute fellows, a wildly brilliant crew of 28 young feminists laying the foundation for our feminist […]
Feminism isn’t theory. It isn’t symbolic. It’s how we survive.
The world is being reshaped before our eyes—through war, authoritarianism, and the intentional dismantling of democracy. From Gaza to Los Angeles, […]
No Borders. No Binaries. No Silence.
What we’re witnessing—ICE raids in our neighborhoods, arrests and militarized violence at protests—isn’t about public safety. It’s the choreography of […]
Our Communities Deserve Care—Not Tear Gas
There’s a narrative this country loves to tell about itself. It’s tidy and self-congratulatory: protest is a right, democracy is […]
AB 969 Just Passed the California State Assembly
AB 969 just passed the California State Assembly floor with unanimous, bipartisan support—79 votes in favor, zero opposed. Our Solís […]
The Future Isn’t Given. It’s Made—By You
There’s a throughline in every movement. It’s not just protest. Not just policy. It’s care. It’s community. It’s the conviction […]
Our Voices on ABC7: Protecting Reproductive Health in California
We often talk about California as a progressive leader—a reproductive freedom state, a place where equity and access aren’t just […]
“Feminism Is the Opposite of Fascism”
At Women’s Foundation California, we know policy is a tool for freedom—and last week, we witnessed that truth in action. […]
There Is No Future Without Immigrant Justice
Last week, three U.S. citizen children—ages 2, 4, and 7—were deported from the United States by ICE alongside their mothers. […]
What Was Erased— and What We’re Reclaiming
Last week, Women’s Foundation California had the honor of hosting a powerful evening at the Getty House alongside Mayor Karen […]
Before the algorithms, there were stories
Before there was TikTok, 24 hour news cycles, and Zoom calls, there were stories. Stories carried between women. Stories told […]