At Women Connect4Good, we understand that “we” is a powerful word – perhaps the most powerful word in any language. Our team has watched “we” at work since 2012 – expanding networks of women and men working to support women and girls, push for equality, and empower women to lead. When we encounter another group doing the same type of work that we do, we don’t compete; we connect, as our name implies. As we amplify their messages, share their stories, and their missions for good, we expand our impact for social change.
Why Movements Matter
In her book, Make Good Trouble: Discover Movements That Sparked Change, Jamia Wilson shares the works of young activists from the 1800’s to the present day to demonstrate “Why Movements Matter” and why we must work together for social change. The “mill girls” who struck in 1834 and 1836 for better wages, education, and independence set the stage for unionization, drafting their own constitution while the press mocked them. In 2019, six young activists petitioned the United Nations with The Girls’ Bill of Rights on the International Day of the Girl. Using WhatsApp, they amplified the voices of over 1,000 young women from 34 countries. They “demanded that governments, lawmakers, organizations, and the world as a whole support girls’ fundamental rights to health, education, safety, and consent in relationships.”
Wilson’s point is “when we take a stand for what we believe in and care about, it can unite us in our drive to make the world better for ourselves and for those who come next.” It’s the shared belief in the magical word, we. The bigger the we, the better.
Where “We” Lives
World Pulse announces on its home page, “We are stronger together.” For 10 plus years, the platform has steadily grown and now reaches 233 countries and counting, giving over 85,000 women a safe digital space to share stories and grow women’s leadership. Everyone is welcome. Everyone belongs. World Pulse is one place where women are encouraged to tell their stories to inspire and inform others. Kirthi Jayakumar, silenced and held back by the trauma of childhood sexual abuse, found her voice there. In her podcast interview, she said, “I found my voice because of and through World Pulse and the community of encouragers there who just came in with so much love and support. To be seen and to be heard as a survivor who lived in silence all that time felt like a new experience.”
Broadcasting the message of “we” and of unity through art installations, films, books, and worldwide events, Tiffany Shlain’s DENDROFEMONOLOGY: A Feminist History Tree Ring is a new kind of monument celebrating and documenting 50,000 years of the history of women in power. It is a catalyst for “art in action” and has traveled the country, drawing crowds from the National Mall in Washington, D.C. to voting drives nationwide, and, in the process, has unified around the inspiration of equality, women’s leadership, and just being a better human.
Vote for Your Daughter founder Maggie O’Neil was inspired by “Fearless Girl” to create 51 statues – one for every state and Washington, D.C. – to represent the loss of body autonomy after Roe fell. For over 20 years, she has used art as a tool for community activism to impact change and organizes artist-led projects that turn community participation into political force through Our Daughters’ Future Fund, (Her Femme Art Fair hits D.C., August 26-30, 2026.)
The Pushback is the Point
Social change requires critical mass – not in the nuclear physics sense, but in its simplest form – enough people moving in the same direction with similar goals, desired outcomes, and coordinated efforts – so that momentum becomes evident and irreversible.
Those who oppose equality will try to divide us. They always have. Name-calling, biases, and misinformation are just a few of their strategies. And they’ve worked on women’s movements for centuries. However, they don’t work nearly as well when we see them coming. When we understand that standing together and supporting each other through the noise is a victory—period.
That’s the power of “we”, and proof that anything is possible – when “we” stand together.