Our Mission
- Developing a left feminist narrative about labor, gender, and immigration as intersection struggles.
- Building a community care and organizing network, aka “Comadre network,” to mobilize resources and help meet the needs of undocumented women and t heir families, often excluded from safety nets.
- Co-producing systematic knowledge and data about our communities’ needs and exclusion factors through Participatory Research Action methods.
- Fostering peer to peer organizing, skill sharing, and political educational initiatives among immigrant women and girls.
Year-round initiatives
School Care Circles: This project addresses the pitfalls in existing “Know Your Rights”, by taking into consideration the social and organizing conditions needed for effectively protecting immigrant communities, while fostering their self-determination and collective power. Including both teachers and parents/caregivers in the design of its curriculum, it offers training on how to build and sustain a community care network and prepares participants to train others.
The mid-term goal of this project is to create well informed, self-replicating care circles to defend immigrant students and families.
The long-term goal is to weave an organizing network, grounded on relationships of care and trust, in schools and other crucial sites of social reproduction.
Circulos de Comadres: A community building, collective learning and leadership development space for recently arrived immigrant women. Building autonomy among immigrant women through a training program on how to become peer-to-peer educators, resource navigators, and organizers.
Annual events
Women’s Strike NYC Fest (March): An annual translocal festival reclaiming the anti-capitalist feminist roots of International Women’s Day (aka 8M). Since 2017 UWF has organized a coalition of organizations, artists, and community members to engage in struggles at the intersection of gender, class, and immigration status. 8M2025 saw over a thousand participants and held speakers, participatory art, workshops, performances, and more.
Feminist Film Series (June/July): Summer film screenings focusing on documentary films tackling issues of immigration, displacement, class, and much more from a feminist lens. Helping promote Uptown solidarity and community care networks.
Posada de Comadres (December): Our Posadas offer imigrant women and their families a space to gather around a collective ritual, access information on the right to shelter & other valuable services, and connect around our common struggles and collective hopes. Each December we hold a Posada sharing resources, food, music, child care, and more.
Each year, UWF hosts several events to celebrate and support our community
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