The Women’s Design + Research Unit (WD+RU) was founded in the UK in 1994 to raise awareness about biases towards women working in visual communication in education and professional practice. This talk explores how WD+RU became an informal network drawing on feminist principles of care, community, conversation, curiosity, and collaboration, to address the questions around the marginalisation of women designers and the ways in which power structures might be challenged. WD+RU’s agenda includes the design of an experimental typeface, research reports, posters, talks and workshops.