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What You Can Do To Bring TGNCI Prisoners Home
Chelsea Manning will be released from prison in 95 days, on May 17, 2017. For so many people who are allies and supporters of Chelsea, her release marks an important end to the trauma she underwent for the past three and a half years in a military prison that refused to recognize her basic humanity. […]
How to Take Care of Yourself as a TGNCI Immigrant
For English, please see below. Estimada comunidad, Quiero reconocer cómo difícil que ha sido esta semana, cómo difícil que han sido las semanas para usted. Quiero reconocer cuánto ha estado lastimando las noticias, cómo el miedo, la duda y la confusion que han afectado su sentido de pertenencia en los Estados Unidos como un inmigrante. […]
SRLP Gets a Shout Out from Fader as a Local Org to Support
By Kimberly Mckenzie, Director of Outreach and Community Engagement on February 2, 2017 in SRLP In The Media
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Tell the American Bar Association to End Its Attack on Disabled People
In the past month, the American Bar Association’s Section of Litigation announced a “roundtable” on the Americans with Disabilities Act that would focus on so-called “drive-by ADA lawsuits.” The American Bar Association is one of the largest membership organizations for lawyers in the United States and claims to be committed to “defending liberty, […]
Resourcing Our Communities is Resistance
The Sylvia Rivera Law Project is committed to growing the ability of trans, gender non-conforming, and intersex community members who are people of color and low-income to advocate for themselves and better navigate state systems that are designed to marginalize and divide us. To assist our folks and their allies, we are pleased to release […]
Trans Prisoner Day of Solidarity
“It’s revolutionary to connect with love” – Reina Gossett Today is Trans Prisoner Day of Action and Solidarity. For the past 10 years, the Sylvia Rivera Law Project’s (SRLP) movement building work has been fortified by our Prisoner Advisory Committee (PAC), a group of over 100 formerly and currently incarcerated trans, gender non-conforming, and intersex […]
Order Your 2017 SRLP Prisoner Advisory Committee Calendar!
By Sylvia Rivera Law Project on January 20, 2017 in Publications and Resources, SRLP Prisoner Advisory Committee
Order your 2017 calendar today! SRLP’s beautiful 12-month calendar showcases the artwork of SRLP Prisoner Advisory Committee members who are locked away in New York state detention facilities. Even while existing under some of the most violent and isolating conditions, our PAC members continue to find ways to survive, resist, and break down physical barriers created to […]
SRLP’s Kyle Rapinan Speaks to Courthouse News on Surge of TGNCI Folks Seeking Name Changes
By Kimberly Mckenzie, Director of Outreach and Community Engagement on January 20, 2017 in SRLP In The Media
Kyle Rapinan, SRLP Survival and Self-Determination Project Director, talks to Courthouse News on trans people rushing to change their name and/or gender marker before the Trump administration and the difficulties and discrimination often faced during that process. Read more about this here.
New Year, Continued Resistance
“This year I want to see the whole city be powerful together” – Sheneeneh Smith, SRLP Movement Building Team member The urgency for continued resistance this New Year has a lot of us thinking, dreaming, and fearing what’s next. In the last year, our struggle to support the rights, leadership, and lives of trans, gender […]