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.
We build autonomy among immigrant women through a training program on how to become peer-to-peer educators, resource navigators, and organizers.
These Circulos are currently on pause, but we are planning to resume in the future. If you are interested in participating, please contact us.
Annual events
Women’s Strike NYC Fest (March):
Since 2017 a coalition of feminist, reproductive freedom, housing, immigrant justice, and community organizations—as well as union members, worker centers, worker coops, mutual aid and artist collectives—has been reclaiming the anti-capitalist feminist roots of International Working Women’s Day (aka 8M) in NYC. Anchored by the Undocumented Women’s Fund since 2020, we have been taking on the streets through a myriad of ways: marching, picketing, rallying and engaging in public art making.
In 2026 we called on artists, organizations and other community members engaged in struggles at the intersection of gender, class, and immigration to rally around the slogan: Care beats hate, our love melts ICE.
Feminist Film Series (June/July):
UWF’s annual feminist film series taking place across 3 weekends in the summer in Washington Heights. Each year we pick 3 films, or a few short films to screen around a topic which tackles gender, immigration, and the intersecting character of our struggle. After each film, we hold a conversation on the film’s themes and how they relate to the present moment. Last year’s theme was: “Immigrant Women Existing and Re-existing.”
Our Film Series celebrates the resilience, friendship, solidarity and hybridness of our communities and, in particular, of women and gender expansive people.
Dia de Muertas:
Our traditional Dia de Muertas celebration, where we celebrate the beloved holiday through a feminist lens. Honoring the lives of women, children, and gender-expansive people we have lost at the hands of a murderous immigration system: whether on their journey north, in detention, or after deportation.
Features live music, poetry, traditional food and drinks from local vendors, a skull mask-making workshop for adults and children, and much more.
Posada de Comadres (December): Using an important tradition in Latin America remembering Mary and Joseph’s search for shelter on their pilgrimage to Bethlehem, to reclaim radical hospitality and freedom of movement. Each year we host our yearly Posada, a celebration where members of the community get together for music, food, and a resource fair.
