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Save The Date – Peterborough’s 3rd Trans Conference

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Who Are We

Posted on January 3, 2012 by cgsj 4 Comments
The Centre for Gender and Social Justice (formerly the Trent Women’s Centre) is a student and community organization made up of staff, volunteers and a steering collective, as well as a broad-based general membership. You do not have to be a Trent student to organize or participate in CGSJ events or
initiatives. The CGSJ is a social space to meet, share, create and organize with people from the Trent and the Peterborough communities who share a commitment to our mandate. The CGSJ works to create safer space for people who experience gendered oppression.  Our central goal is  to challenge
the oppressive ideas, actions, institutions and systems that impose limited understandings of sex and gender, and reproduce sexism, cisprivilege and transphobia.  We use  a social justice model that  is informed by a holistic understanding of anti-oppression and feminist politics that recognizes the ways in  which ideas and experiences of gender are shaped by  racism, colonialism, classism, ableism,
militarism, heteronormativity and all other forms of oppression.
The Centre is dedicated to being and creating safer and more inclusive spaces at Trent and throughout Peterborough. This means we believe in actively fighting for, creating, and maintaining an environment of empowerment, respect and support for people who experience gendered oppression
and their allies. The CGSJ aims to inspire individuals and organizations to challenge their ideas of
gender, and seeks to facilitate the organization of creative and constructive challenges to sexism, transphobia, cis-privilege, and other forms of oppression. We seek to engage in equitable, mutually supportive, ongoing relationships with individuals, student groups, community organizations and agencies that share our commitment to anti-oppression in principle and in practice.
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