As we enter this Pride weekend it is important to remember that many people – in particular transgender women of color – still struggle to meet their basic human needs such as health care. Despite ongoing litigation in Cruz v. Zucker, the NYS DOH continues to suggest amendments to the current regulation…
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SRLP speaks to the Board of Correction about implementing meaningful PREA standards
May 10 was a big day for advocacy to end sexual violence in New York City jails. Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP) members and staff spent the morning at the Board of Correction’s public meeting, where punitive segregation for young people, harassment during visitations, and the Prison Rape Elimination Act…
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SRLP Members Discuss Housing, Employment Discrimination at Commission on Human Rights Workshop
On Tuesday night, Daryl Cochrane of the Commission on Human Rights led a Know Your Rights workshop for a packed room of SRLP members and staff. The workshop provided an overview of New York City’s Human Rights Laws and how they apply when it comes to housing, employment, and…
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Leaving Trans Women out of the Women and Criminal Justice System Convening
To mark the end of Women’s History Month, Attorney General Loretta Lynch issued remarks at the White House Women and the Criminal Justice System Convening Wednesday, March 30. Her remarks stand out for mentioning and specifically addressing transgender women caught inside the Criminal Justice System. Yet naming transgender…
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SRLP Members Help HALT Solitary in NYS Prisons
On any single day about 4,000 people are held in solitary confinement in New York State prisons. This is a fact that Marci, a member of the Sylvia Rivera Law Project’s Movement Building Team, knows all too well. Having survived solitary confinement herself, Marci is now joining a group…
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Reducing Sexual Violence on the Road to Abolition
Next Monday, April 4, SRLP is thrilled to be joining survivors, loved ones of survivors and advocates in the beginning of a campaign to address sexual violence and sexual harassment in the NYC jails. Around this time last year SRLP, along with other allied organizations and New York City’s…
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Help SRLP with in-kind donations for Small Works for Big Change!
Please consider making an in-kind donation to support SRLP’s 10th annual art benefit Small Works for Big Change. SRLP acknowledges in-kind donations on all of our print and online materials, increasing the visibility of local organizations and companies. For your donation, you will receive an ad projected at the event;…
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Mayor de Blasio Requires City Buildings to Give Bathroom Access to TGNCI Folks
Last Monday, I had the privilege of joining advocates and allies at the signing of an important executive order barring city facilities from harassing and intimidating transgender people and their use of city-owned restrooms and sex-segregated facilities. For trans, gender nonconforming and intersex (TGNCI) communities, there is often a fear…
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Know Your Rights in this Winter Weather!
For many TGNCI people, especially low-income TGNCI people of color, access to housing is a road filled with oppressions and phobias, disproportionately leaving TGNCI people of color homeless or not stably housed. For those in our communities who are homeless or not housed in a consistent, stable way, this weekend…
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Attend the city-wide trans forum to discuss our community’s needs on 2/8!
SAVE THE DATE! SRLP is working with the Audre Lorde Project, Translatina Network, the Anti-Violence Project, Lorena Borjas Community Fund, and more to host a Queens Trans Forum on February 8th! RSVP at ysafdie [at] avp.org or call 212-714-1184