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who we are:
Reclaiming Our Gender Identities
is a university wide organized diversity conference exploring the
traditional meanings of gender - its complexities, contradictions,
and perspectives - ranging from academic to activist, in order
to evaluate how traditional definitions of gender evolved in our
society.
Workshops will explore how
gender is employed as a measure of diversity and used as a marker
of identity and expression, how varying socio-economic categories
add layers to the meanings of gender, and the roles myth and fiction
play as gender is manipulated in power struggles.
This conference
invites participants and presenters - students, staff and faculty
- to consider how we begin to (re)define our bodies for ourselves. We will
unpack gender, asking; How can we rediscover gender with inclusive
rather than exclusive language? When does one gain control
and agency over their body? How do we identify, develop and
even inspire ongoing campus activities and studies where participants
are asked to ruminate, express and celebrate our gender identities?
our goals are to:
- foster inter-cultural dialogue and
relations across diverse people, campuses and communities
- promote the reduction of prejudice,
hate and bias crimes
- celebrate the distinctness of cultures
and vast richness of diversity through out Rutgers University
- enhance the ties that bind 'our common
purposes' between all three university campuses
we are
a subcommittee of Common Purposes and responsible for the conference. we
represent all three rutgers campuses and consist of students,
faculty and staff.
members:
kim mauroff: chair
cheryl clarke
tia clarke
mary beth daisey
genevieve famaso
dean george jones
nick roybal
natasha tursi
mark schuster
allison wisniewski
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