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.

About the Theme
Weaving as Feminist Resistance

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.

Handwoven purple textile stretched on a wooden loom symbolizing unity and collective power.
WHAT TO EXPECT ON MAY 15, 2026

An evening of:

Two women speaking at a podium during a community storytelling event.

Intergenerational

voices in conversation

Three women participating in a panel discussion, one speaking into a microphone.

Intergenerational

voices in conversation

Two women in close conversation at a community gathering table.

Collective

reflection on the power of care & solidarity

Community members dancing together in colorful attire during a celebration.

Community-centered

 celebration

Ceremonial table with flowers, candles, and handwritten messages honoring community and tradition.

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.
May 15, 2026

JOIN THE WEAVING

Be a thread in this collective fabric.

Threads of Hope:

Weaving Our Power Together

Three women collaboratively weaving colorful yarn together at a table.