EDMONIA LEWIS CENTER FOR WOMEN AND TRANSGENDER PEOPLE
About
The Edmonia Lewis Center for Women and Transgender People is a collective of students,
staff and administrators doing the work of transforming existing systems of oppression based on sex,
gender, race, class, sexuality, age, ability, size, religion, nationality, ethnicity and language. We recognize
that these systems are interconnected and that our work must be multifaceted. We examine these connections
as we create and maintain safe space, initiate and fund programming, and serve as a resource for the Oberlin
College community. We strive to maintain a space that will allow us to support and advocate for
those disenfranchised on the basis of gender: cisgender* women and transgender people. The purpose of the ELC is
to be a part of the struggles for social justice worldwide.
* cisgender is a term that describes a person whose gender identity is the same as the one
they were assigned at birth. We use this term rather than “non-transgender” because we consider both cisgender
and transgender different ways of being gendered, rather than privileging one experience of gender as more “normal.” We also consider it important to specify that we are a space for cisgender women and transgender
people of all genders, transgender women included.
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