Roxanne Ma, a graduate of the International Development Studies program at UTSC, recalls her experience working at the UTSC Women’s and Trans Centre as a student, and explains what that experience meant to her as someone who is passionate about gender equity and activism.
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A highlight I can say of my experience at UTSC really was working, I think I was so lucky, so fortunate, and I again feel very humbled to have had that opportunity to work with the UTSC Women’s Centre
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because that’s when I really discovered how passionate I can be about something. I never — I don’t think before that I really felt
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that passion in anything I had done previously. I mean I have my interests, but really that position and the Women’s Centre, I could feel it. And it was a lot of work, I mean I did a lot of stuff outside of school.
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Like so I mean the Women’s Centre, you’re supposed to work like 15 hours. I easily put twenty or more hours every week into just doing extra stuff and that was, but like I didn’t feel like it was a burden. It was a nonstop year, it was very, very busy but I was really, really engaged in it and I was really passionate about it, so that whole experience, it’s not necessarily a moment, but that whole experience is very important to me. So that is a very important experience I take away from UTSC,
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and I think the reason why it’s so significant is not only because I’m very passionate about gender equity and social justice issues, but
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it really kind of…I engaged in the UTSC community in ways that I had never before.
