Resource Center Coordinator Peter Moosman
Everyone is invited to the grand opening of the new
Gender & Sexuality Student Resource Center (GSSRC) at Salt Lake Community
College’s South City Campus on Oct. 11, 1-3 p.m. in the Student Forum and in
Room 1-140, which is where the center will be located. There will be speakers,
entertainment and refreshments.
This new resource, part of the Office of Diversity &
Multicultural Affairs, will host trainings and events to educate and bring
awareness of experiences of “womxn,” a word that includes transgender women and
women of color, and the LGBTQ+ community to the public. Under the
direction of its coordinator, Peter Moosman, the center will provide gender-
and sexuality-based programming, retention efforts, a safe space for students
to gather and other resources.
“I think back to when I was a student in the closet and
how a space like this on campus could have helped me as I was struggling with
my identity, my faith and how I fit into the community,” says Moosman. “Knowing
a space like this exists for students helps them find ownership,
representation, likeness and value in a community space that often makes them
feel invisible, unwanted and alone. My goal is that students will know that
they are at an institution that values them and all of their beautiful
identities enough to fight for their success by providing them resources,
programming and a space to be them; lightening their load by providing
education for the broader college community so they don’t need to do all the
educating; and advocating for/with them on an institutional level to ensure
they feel like an essential part of this college.”
For more information, call 801-957-3143.