Help us help FIERCE meet their fundraising goal and continue their incredible work building power and leadership among LGBTQ youth of color in NYC! We’re bowling on Saturday, October 26, and have five days to reach our $3,000 fundraising goal. So far we’ve raised $1,847. Can you help us in the home stretch? Click here […]
Director of Grassroots Fundraising, Ola Osaze, says goodbye to SRLP!
Director of Grassroots Fundraising Ola Osaze will have his last day on SRLP staff this Thursday. Over the past two years Ola has raised both the visibility and grassroots power of the Sylvia Rivera Law Project through tireless work and organizing events like SRLP10, Small Works 4 Big Change, SRLP Gala, legal receptions […]
SRLP director of immigrant justice Pooja Gehi presenting at ‘Echoes of Ghadar’ Conference!
Organized by South Asia Solidarity Initiative (SASI), the Echoes of Ghadar convergence aims to revive the often forgotten history of the Ghadar movement, through: a celebration of music, films, and conversations among grassroots activists from South Asia and the U.S.. These activities will provide grassroots activists with a unique opportunity to learn from the history of […]
Al Jazeera America reports on police profiling trans people and what we are doing to stop it!
Al Jazeera America recently spotlighted the NYPD practices of profiling trans and gender non conforming people and the resistance that organizations such as Streetwise and Safe, Trans Justice of the Audre Lorde Project and the Sylvia Rivera Law Project are doing to stop it. Check out the article here !
Tomorrow! New Member Orientation at 7 PM
SRLP’s Elana Redfield presents for first ever Judicial Institute training on transgender litigants
Today SRLP’s staff attorney Elana Redflied presented with Judge Moulton and retired Judge Hepner about providing affirming legal services in the courts. Elana’s presentation was the first of a three part program to educate judges, court officers, and attorneys about transgender and gender non conforming people in the judicial system. Day two of the Judicial […]
Legal Drop In Hours are Cancelled 10/10/2013
Please spread the word that SRLP will be CLOSED for drop in hours on 10/10/2013. Our next legal drop in hours will be the following Thursday 10/17/2013. Please note SRLP will be closing drop in hrs from 11/1/2013 until 2/1/2014
SRLP Strategizes With Ugandan Trans & AIDS Activists
Last week Beyonce Amooti of Transgender Equality Uganda and Flavia Kyomukama of Global Coalition of Women against AIDS in Uganda visited SRLP to generously share strategies around trans liberation and HIV/AIDS organizing in Uganda. The meeting was a part of their visit to the Miss Major Jay Toole Building prior to the Queer Dreams and […]
Next Week! SRLP Staff Attorney Elana Redfield & Gabriel Foster at Trans Out Loud!
Next week Callen-Lorde’s Transgender Community Advisory Board will host an expert panel about accessing and negotiating health insurance as transgender and gender non-conforming identified people on October 16th, from 7-9pm at the Judson Memorial Church. SRLP’s own Elana Redfield will present healthcare and the impact of insurance on trans and gender non conforming communities! And […]
SRLP and the Judicial Institute present a three part continuing legal education
SRLP present with Judge Moulton and retired Judge Hepner about providing affirming legal services in the courts.