SRLP’s drop-in legal clinic will be closed on Thursday 3/26. We will reopen the following Thursday 4/2. To make an appointment or ask about our legal services, you can call SRLP’s legal intake line at 212-337-8550 ext. 308 and someone will return your call within 48 hours. For more information, visit: http://srlp.org/legal-services/ If you are interested in getting involved in […]
SRLP’s Sasha Alexander spoke of the necessity of trans healthcare access for survival in CBS article
SRLP’s Director of Membership Sasha Alexander was interviewed in a CBS article regarding Caitlyn Jenner’s surgery. While much of the media’s focus on Caitlyn Jenner’s transition has been sensationalistic, Sasha used this opportunity of wide media coverage to draw attention to the diversity of trans experiences, the lack of access to trans healthcare due to discrimination and institutionalized barriers, and the […]
SRLP’s Sasha Alexander at NY LGBT Health Month Press Conference
This week, Sasha Alexander, SRLP Director of Membership, joined the Empire State Pride Agenda for the kickoff of LGBT Health Month focusing on healthcare access issues for LGBT New Yorkers, and the new options available under the Affordable Care Act. Sasha represented SRLP at the LGBT Health Month press conference. Read SRLP’s statement below: The […]
Thank You for Supporting SRLP, ALP, and GLOBE’s Demands for Fully Inclusive Trans Healthcare!
With only 36 hours before the deadline, we mobilized more than 300 people to sign our letter to the NY Health Department letting them know just how important #transhealthcarenow is to our communities. Thank you for joining us in telling them that, while the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, TransJustice of the Audre Lorde Project, and GLOBE: […]
Celebrate SRLP’s Everyday Abolition series Movement Building Team Organizers Aviva and Olympia!
The Sylvia Rivera Law Project is excited to uplift and celebrate the leadership of our Movement Building Team organizers Aviva and Olympia who are both helping develop and launch our new “Every Day Abolition” series. Last night was the first event of the series“Practices of Every Day Abolition” which was a huge success! Thanks to […]
Resisting violence with everyday abolition
Dear Community, I can barely bring myself to keep writing and editing this letter because our people keep being murdered. Friday night in New Orleans, we lost another community member, Penny Proud. We’ve already lost 6 trans women of color to violence in 2015. Michelle Vash Payne was murdered in Los Angeles, Ty Underwood in […]
Photos: SRLP is in Denver at Creating Change #CC15
The Sylvia Rivera Law Project is at the Creating Change conference in Denver. Visit us at the Trans Justice Funding Project table in the exhibitor hall. You can support SRLP’s work by buying one of our new t-shirts in three colors: green, gray, or blue. Stop by and talk to our staff!
Thursday 2/5/15: Join SRLP at the Digital Strategy Institute at Creating Change
Will you be at Creating Change in Denver? SRLP’s Juana Peralta and Avi Cummings and GLAAD’s Dani Heffernan will be sharing history and lessons learned in developing a media organizing strategy in our trans healthcare campaign. Join us for our session, “#transhealthcarenow: How We Ended Medicaid Exclusions for Trans Healthcare in New York” on Thursday 2/5 from 2:45-3:30. […]
Tell the Dept. of Health we need trans healthcare for ALL
The Sylvia Rivera Law Project, TransJustice of the Audre Lorde Project, and GLOBE: The LGBTQ Justice Organization of Make the Road New York are celebrating New York State’s proposed Medicaid regulation as an important step towards safe and affirming healthcare for all trans people. But we still have work to do. We need to push for real access to […]
1/27 Snow Day! SRLP office is closed, member orientation postponed
SRLP will be closed on 1/27/15. Tomorrow’s new member orientation is canceled. Our regular membership events will resume next Tuesday, February 2 and the next new member orientation will be held on Tuesday, February 24. To stay connected with our upcoming events, visit http://srlp.org/events or check out the list below. We hope to see you this Friday, January […]