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 women without inviting them to […]
SRLP Members Help HALT Solitary in NYS Prisons
By Sylvia Rivera Law Project on April 8, 2016 in Action Alert, Everyday Abolition, Legal, Policy Advocacy, Prisoner Rights Project
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 of advocates on April 12 […]
Reducing Sexual Violence on the Road to Abolition
By Sylvia Rivera Law Project on March 29, 2016 in Action Alert, Everyday Abolition, Legal, Prisoner Rights Project
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 Public Advocate Letitia James, submitted […]
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; your logo and hyperlink on […]
Mayor de Blasio Requires City Buildings to Give Bathroom Access to TGNCI Folks
By Kyle Rapiñan, Director of Survival and Self-Determination on March 9, 2016 in Legal, News, Policy Advocacy
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 for our safety and the […]
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 may be very treacherous. SRLP […]
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
Last chance to make noise for trans healthcare to the Feds!
By Sasha Alexander, SRLP Director of Membership on January 19, 2016 in Action Alert, Legal, Membership, Policy Advocacy
This is a call to action to support trans health! Tonight, comments are due at 11:59 pm on a new proposed rule from the federal housing agency, HUD (Housing and Urban Development) for a change in regulations regarding “Equal Access to Housing in HUD Programs Regardless of Sexual Orientation or Gender Identity (Equal Access Rule)“. Our communities […]
NYC Commission on Human Rights Announces Stronger Protections for Trans and Gender Non-Conforming People
Yesterday, the NYC Commission on Human Rights announced their commitment to strengthen protections for trans and gender non-conforming people under the NYC Human Rights Law through the release of clearer guidelines. As mentioned in the press release below “…discrimination based on gender identity and expression has been illegal under the City’s law since 2002, previous […]
Trans Health Care Now Campaign Part 2. – Implementation and Updates
Trans Health Care Now Campaign Part 2. – Implementation and Updates In response to litigation filed in federal court in Manhattan by Sylvia Rivera Law Project, Legal Aid Society, and Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, the New York Department of Health amended a state regulation to provide Medicaid coverage for certain surgeries and procedures for […]