Center on Halsted hosts several peer-led Community Groups who meet regularly for discussion, activity, and socializing. The Center provides a supportive space for these groups to gather and collaborate within the LGBTQ and Allied communities.
This group meets every Thursday.
Mission: CommunityCave Chicago is a peer led group for individuals that were Assigned/Designated Female at Birth (A/DFAB) AND ALSO who identify as trans, i.e., as anything other than cisgender. We seek to provide a safer space for meeting, discussing, learning, collaborating, socializing, mentorship, and the building of community.
In addition to hosting dedicated safer spaces for our core membership, we are also intentionally inclusive of our larger trans, queer/questioning, and intersex (TQI) communities by holding regular open meetings and attending a wide variety of events. Please visit our website for more info, as well as to view our topic and event schedule and history: www.CommunityCaveChicago.org
Group Values: diversity, intersectionality, respect for others, accessibility, harm reduction, social and economic justice, the abolition of systems of oppression, real gender equity beyond the binary, feminism, reproductive justice, anti-ableism, anti-bigotry, and #BlackLivesMatter
In order to foster this safer space and to protect our members' privacy, all meetings and events are closed to students and reporters that are attending under those functions. If one would like to attend any of our open events as an ally, they will be asked to please participate, as attending only to observe is not allowed.
OBSERVER POLICY FOR THIS GROUP
This community group is closed to researchers, journalists, students attending in an academic capacity, and other observers. If you fall into one of these categories, Center On Halsted may be able to support your project in other ways; please email communitygroups@centeronhalsted.org . You also may be interested in the educational opportunities posted here: http://www.centeronhalsted.org/requestspeaker/ .
