Cambridge Women’s Center

The Cambridge Women’s Center is a community space, both physical and online, open to anyone for whom woman is a meaningful identifier or lived experience, including trans women and gender-nonconforming people comfortable in a women-centered space. It offers a safe place for learning, emotional support and empowerment through self-determination. Its drop-in day center program provides a safe space for all who identify as women.

The center provides in-person emotional support and referrals on issues such as homelessness, poverty, domestic violence, sexual abuse, substance use and mental health. It also offers information on housing, employment and legal services, plus material help including food, clothing and computer lab access. More than 20 classes, workshops and groups run each month, covering creative arts, trauma support, financial planning, LGBTQ+ support and English-Spanish conversation.

What to Know

• The center was founded in 1971 after a women’s movement building takeover.
• It describes itself as the oldest continuously operating community center for women in the United States.
• All programs and services are free and confidential.
• Its approach to feminism is explicitly intersectional.