The Santa Monica College Gender Equity Center is dedicated to creating an equitable
community by addressing and challenging gender inequity through education, empowerment
of women, consciousness raising, activism, and allyship.
Developing programs to promote gender equity through an intersectional lens
Offering resources to create/promote/build feminist, womxnist, and mujerista movements
Advocating for gender equity by organizing and participating in social and activist
movements
Welcoming and building allyship in support of gender equity
Building and establishing partnerships with SMC groups and community agencies to support
and achieve gender equality
Community
We want to support everyone in our community by talking about what is important to
you and by giving resources that can give you the help you need.
Downtown Woman's Center
The Downtown Women’s Center (DWC) envisions a Los Angeles with every woman housed
and on a path to personal stability. Its mission is to end homelessness for women
in greater Los Angeles through housing, wellness, employment, and advocacy.
As the grassroots arm of the women’s movement, the National Organization for Women
is dedicated to its multi-issue and multi-strategy approach to women’s rights, and
is the largest organization of feminist grassroots activists in the United States.
Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw is an American lawyer, civil rights advocate, philosopher,
and a leading scholar of critical race theory who developed the theory of intersectionality.
She is a full-time professor at the UCLA School of Law and Columbia Law School, where
she specializes in race and gender issues
This is an easy way to take action. Be intentional about posting authenticated news
articles, petitions, websites, and more that help bring exposure to police brutality
and anti-black violence. Here are a few tips.
Don't be silent on social media. Speak up. Use your platform to seek justice for George
Floyd. If you are uncomfortable writing something yourself then repost someone else's
words.
When you donate, share the link on your social channels to inspire followers.
Resharing photos or videos of protestors could get them in trouble with the law. Think
carefully before reposting any video where law enforcement could I.D. someone.
Campus Clubs
Corsair Consent Coalition (CCC) Club
Corsair Consent Coalition (CCC) is to create a safe, inclusive campus for students
of all gender expressions and sexual orientations by educating our campus community
on issues surrounding sexual assault and violence. Corsair Consent Coalition is committed
to combating sexual violence, educating students, and creating a supportive environment
for survivors and allies. CCC will partner with on- and off-campus community resources
in an effort to educate on the topics of sexual assault, dating/domestic violence,
stalking, and healthy sexuality
PERIOD is a youth-fueled nonprofit that strives to eradicate period poverty and stigma
through service, education, and advocacy. Through the distribution of menstrual products,
promotion of youth leadership, and championing of menstrual equity in policy, PERIOD
aims to center those disproportionately affected by period poverty and support local
efforts for menstrual equity. To end period poverty and stigma through education,
advocacy, and service
GSA strives to create an inclusive environment where students of ALL sexual orientations,
gender identities, ethnicities, religions, ages, and other intersectional backgrounds
can come together as a community to create awareness and fight inequality at SMC.
The Racial Justice Center will have a robust programming model that supports interdisciplinary
research and education on the physical, social, political, historical, cultural, and
economic experiences of the Black, Latinx, Asian American, Pacific Islander, and other
communities.
Processing the Verdict: Reflection, Healing, and Coming Together for Racial Justice
Response to the Derek Chauvin trial verdict handed down on the afternoon of Tuesday,
April 20, 2021. These sessions are open to the entire SMC community: Students, Staff,
Faculty, and Administrators are invited to join in this process.
Broadly, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies is an interdisciplinary field of inquiry
analyzing social justice in the structures of power, especially as they are grounded
in gender, race, sexuality, ethnicity, nationality, ability, and other inequalities,
and as they configure historical and contemporary struggles for social change.
The Gender Equity Center will foster student success and retention by creating a designated
space for the safe expression of gender identity, the creation and dissemination of
knowledge, inquiry, and education with regards to gender and sexuality, sexual assault
and harassment services and education, and as a platform for research and professional
development for students with regards to gender expression and inclusion.
Emily S. Chavez(she/ella), M.S. Student Services Specialist, Student Equity Center chavez_emily@smc.edu
Land Acknowledgement The Student Equity Center's Gender Equity Center acknowledges our presence on ancestral
unceded territory of the Tongva or Gabrielino, Kizh, and Chumash peoples. We honor
the indigenous caretakers of these lands and their elders, past, present, and future.
