Threads of Hope:
Weaving Our Power Together
May 15, 2026 | 6-9PM | The Women's Building Auditorium
Each of us is a thread.
Together, we are a tapestry of resistance, care, and collective power.
2026 marks the 55th anniversary of TWB's founding. This year, we gather to honor the complex lives of women and communities in diaspora weaving across borders, languages, generations, and systems of power.
Join us for an evening that celebrates joy, dignity, interdependence, and the radical act of collective care.
For decades, TWB has served as a loom: a place where threads meet, cross, and strengthen.
Through culturally rooted services, leadership development, advocacy, and community space, TWB has supported women and people in diaspora in weaving their own pathways to thriving. Together, we have been weaving structures of collective care that resist isolation and erasure.
Across cultures and histories, women have woven stories, memory, and survival into cloth. Weaving is not only a craft; it is a connection. It is knowledge passed through hands. It is the interlacing of lives.
In mythology, Penelope wove and unwove as an act of strategy and resistance, refusing patriarchal timelines imposed upon her. Across Latin American and Indigenous traditions, women's weaving encodes cosmology, land, lineage, and community memory. We draw on this lineage to understand weaving as the creation of the social fabric of our communities. Intersectionality lives in the loom. Class, gender, migration, race, sexuality, language, and culture—they reinforce one another. They unite us. This is the tapestry of life: textured, layered, enduring.
We, women of the diaspora, are too often framed through narratives of lack: displaced, poor, defenseless, voiceless. We reject that story. We are not passive recipients of charity. We are the hands that raise the next generation, steward the land, hold communities together, and organize for justice. We are the hands shaping the future.

An evening of:

Intergenerational
voices in conversation

Intergenerational
voices in conversation

Collective
reflection on the power of care & solidarity

Community-centered
celebration

Artistic
expressions inspired by weaving and ancestral traditions
This is not an individual act of giving. It is a collective act of weaving with hope.
We gather to pool our resources, our relationships, our skills, and our commitments, because survival has never been individual. Care has always been collective. Security is something we build together.
On this night, we do what our communities have always done: We come together so that no one carries the weight alone.
WHY YOUR SUPPORT MATTERS
When you contribute, you are not “giving to the vulnerable.” You are taking part in a living tapestry of community and care.
Your support helps:





JOIN THE WEAVING
Be a thread in this collective fabric.
Threads of Hope:
Weaving Our Power Together

