Women's Foundation California

06/12/2026

General mood for this moment – and a reminder to never go silent.
A beautiful message and powerful performance by our very own Elizabeth, Senior Program Manager of our Solís Policy Institute which guides our fellows to use their own voices to uplift themselves, our communities, and our collective movements.

Elizabeth Ayala

06/02/2026

Pride was Black. Pride was trans. Pride was a riot.
This country loves a movement once it’s been defanged. Once the anger has been ironed out and the history has been sanitized.
We don’t do safe.
Q***r liberation is feminist liberation. Trans rights are women’s rights. None of us are free until all of us are free. The fight is one.
Happy Pride, this month and every month to follow, until liberation.

05/28/2026

Your voice matters. Your community matters. Your vote does too. 🗳️

Make a plan to vote this upcoming Election Day — and remind someone you love to do the same. We move forward together.

05/20/2026

Last week, at the California Museum, the feminist agenda was in the room. Not as a slogan. As a feeling — part possibility, part gratitude, part rage — that’s been sharpening itself for a long time.

Our SPI State fellows took the stage with four bills — AB 2318, AB 2624, SB 1271, and AB 1201 — each one carried into the legislature by our fellows who know exactly what’s at stake because they’ve lived it in their own communities.

Board member Aldita Amaru Gallardo closed the evening by naming what so many in the room already know: “When the institution and the foundation supports you, you feel the power that feminist movements have been building here, locally, regionally, and statewide.” 

That power doesn’t appear from nowhere. It is built collectively, sustained intentionally, and resourced by people who understand that redistribution is a feminist act.

We are so grateful to be in this work with you. ✊

05/10/2026

Mothers are the original makers: of life, of language, of culture, of resistance. They sing us into being. They name us. They pass down recipes and remedies and revolutions. We are matrilineal. We come from women who built whole worlds with their hands and their hearts.

And today, we hold ALL of them.

The ones laughing with their children right now. The ones in ICE detention who cannot. The mothers who are grieving. The foremothers whose names history forgot but whose love we still carry in our bones.

Motherhood is not one story — it is every story. The joy AND the grief. The creation AND the fight.

Today we honor all of it. All of them.

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05/08/2026

The feminist agenda doesn't wait. Neither should you.
May 13th. Sacramento. A room full of people who have stopped asking for permission — organizers, legislators, Solís Policy Institute fellows and alums, and freedom fighters building the California we deserve.
Come hungry. For food, for justice, for each other.

Link below to RSVP.

Join Women’s Foundation California for our annual Legislative Reception on May 13th in Sacramento as we celebrate our Solís Policy Institute.

05/07/2026

Last week over 6000 delegates from 189 countries came together as to advance a shared vision for gender equality and social justice.

It was an incredible gathering, and we’re especially proud that our very own CEO, , moderated a powerful conversation on “Sexual Violence is a Public Health Crisis” and what it takes to move from awareness to real, actionable solutions.

We leave spaces like these energized, and committed to carrying this work forward together.

05/07/2026

Patriarchy isn’t a meme, a trend, or the buzzword it’s reduced to.
Patriarchy is the architecture shaping our lives, systems, and futures.

In “Erased,” Anna Malaika Tubbs traces what American patriarchy has hidden from us for 250 years – and the memory, ancient wisdom and power that can be reclaimed.

Join us for Erased & Reclaimed, a conversation on truth-telling, memory, resistance, and power with Anna Malaika Tubbs and Aisha Becker-Burrowes, moderated by Danielle Robay.

🔗 RSVP below!
🧑‍💻 Virtual event
🗓️ May 21st, 2026 @ 5:30 PM PDT

Join NYT Bestselling author Dr. Anna Malaika Tubbs for a national virtual conversation that turns our attention toward the system that has kept us from achieving true democracy for the last 250 years – patriarchy

05/03/2026

Housing Insecurity in Los Angeles County has officially declared a Public Health Crisis.

On April 14th, the motion our 2025 SPI Local Housing Security team helped champion, co-authored by Supervisor and Supervisor , came before the LA Board of Supervisors – and it passed!

We are endlessly proud of the SPI fellows and alums who continue to show up. Not just for the final policy win, but for every step, every meeting, every call it takes to get there. This is what building a future rooted in dignity looks like.

04/30/2026

We see the pattern.

Just yesterday, the Supreme Court delivered a verdict undermining decades of hard fought activism, striking at what is widely hailed as a cornerstone of the Civil Rights Movement. And this week ICE quietly opened another detention center in a former California prison.

Gutting the Voting Rights Act, spending trillions on war in Iran, and billions on weapons to fuel genocide in Palestine.

This is not an accident, this is an extraordinary political will to attack, disenfranchise, and defund our communities.

But we have power too. And only the people united, el pueblo unido, can take the bold action needed to demand a future rooted in freedom and solidarity.

Join us tomorrow, on May 1, 2026, we flex our economic and political power.
Tomorrow, we will show up for each other because we care.