The Women's Building of San Francisco

06/19/2026

Comunidad, queremos compartirles este hermoso video creado por José, pareja de una de nuestras voluntarias de CRR y artista panelista de Hilando Resistencias. 💜

Gracias José, por esta generosa ofrenda y por ayudarnos a seguir tejiendo historias que merecen ser contadas. ✨

to celebrate the leadership, creativity, and power of women of the ...

06/16/2026

Comunidad, our is now available.

👉 This month includes updates from across our community, a new story in In Our Own Words, highlights from our programs, and upcoming opportunities to connect and participate.

💌 Don’t miss a beat — read the full newsletter at https://tr.ee/TWBmonthlynewsletter
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06/15/2026

is officially over... and we survived. 💜📄

Before we put away the calculators, we want to the local businesses that kept our volunteers fueled with dinners, breakfasts, and lunches throughout the season. Your generosity helped make long days and evenings of service possible.

Together, our free bilingual Tax Clinic served approximately 649 community members in English and Spanish. Thanks to the dedication of 20 volunteers, 1 tax intern, and 1 tax coordinator, community members received an average refund of $1,665.

These refunds mean more than numbers. They help families pay bills, cover essentials, and keep resources circulating in our communities.

to everyone who made this season possible. Community care takes many forms, and we saw it every step of the way. ✨

06/11/2026

Why do we gather?

In her opening remarks at Threads of Hope, The Women's Building ED, Tania Estrada reflects on the power of community and collective care in a moment when immigrants communities continue navigating uncertainty and exclusion.

Thank you everyone who joined us, supported our gathering, and continues to sustain our work.

Keep weaving with us at womensbuilding.org

06/10/2026

We keep talking about menstruation because having a place to stay does not always mean having clean water, privacy, safety or access to menstrual products.

In conflict, displacement and crisis, menstruation can increase the risk of shame, infections, exploitation, assault and gender based violence.

When people are denied what they need to care for their bodies, their health and safety are put at risk.

That is why menstrual care must be part of reproductive health and human rights.

Support our work so we can keep providing free menstrual products and advocating for menstrual justice and reproductive rights.

More info at womensbuilding.org

06/05/2026

🩸is being weaponized in conflict.

From , where menstrual products have reportedly been restricted, to , where people menstruate without enough products, water, toilets, privacy or care, war is fought on women’s bodies too.

Restricting menstrual products restricts movement, health, safety and dignity. This is

🛑 Stop treating menstruation like an afterthought. Menstrual dignity is part of bodily autonomy.

Myanmar's military junta has banned the distribution of sanitary pads across resistance-held areas, claiming fighters use them for first aid — a claim medica...

06/02/2026

We are to share a few photos from "Threads of Hope: Weaving Our Power Together."

On May 15, our community gathered in through , , , and centered on and communities of the diaspora. Together, we raised $56,540 to sustain community rooted programs, advocacy, and spaces of care at The Women's Building of San Francisco.

This is something to celebrate. It reflects what is possible when community shows up with intention and shared commitment. We also want to be honest that, with ongoing funding cuts impacting feminist and community spaces, we are still not where we need to be financially.

Movements are made by many hands. They need resources, care, trust, and people willing to keep showing up.

06/01/2026

🩸do not stop during

For women, girls, adolescents, and menstruating people in conflict, bleeding can mean no products, no clean water, no privacy, no safe bathroom, and no medical care.

poverty during war = reproductive violence.

That is not only a health crisis. It is gender violence and a denial of dignity.

Learn how women and girls in navigate during crisis and why health IS a justice issue everywhere.

“Sometimes I need pads and soap more than I need food.” Aisha, a displaced girl, manages her period without water, privacy and pads in . See how @‌UNFPA—the sexual and reproductive health agency—is

05/28/2026

🩸 Periods need justice, not shame.

is a call to break the barriers that keep people from bleeding with dignity, privacy, safety, and care.

is reproductive health. It is public health. It is gender justice.

Our communities deserve free products, real information, and the power to participate fully in school, work, family, and public life.

Support The Women's Building of San Francisco so we can keep providing menstrual products, sharing information, and fighting for reproductive health and dignity for all who menstruate.

ℹ️ https://womensbuilding.org/ways-to-give

05/27/2026

🩸is reproductive injustice.

When someone can't afford period products, they can't access school, work, or healthcare with dignity. When periods are treated as embarrassing instead of normal, we internalize shame about our own bodies. When access depends on money, we're not free.

This is not individual struggle. This is systemic violence.

At , we refuse this. We provide because menstrual access is . We challenge the stigma that keeps us silent. We advocate for policy that treats period products as essential care, not luxury.

This (May 28), we name the truth: your period is not shameful. Your body deserves dignity. And you deserve support without judgment or cost.
If you believe menstrual justice is reproductive justice, stand with us.

Support us at 🔗womensbuilding.org

Every dollar 💸 funds free products, education, and the fight to end period poverty in our community.