Introduction to Lennea Elizabeth Stevens. Lennea plans to submit regularly to the PAC blog, to document and share her experiences as an incarcerated trans woman. In her first post, Lennea also shares some of her experience and thoughts on beginning to discover and come to terms with her inner voice.…
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SRLP is Hiring a Director of Outreach & Community Engagement!
SRLP’s dear Gabriel Foster is taking on new and exciting challenges with the Trans Justice Funding Project after four years of amazing work as SRLP’s Director of Outreach and Community Engagement. It is with deep gratitude and, of course, sadness that we say goodbye to him, but we are excited…
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Thanks to Krissy, SRLP’s Bathrooms are Disability Accessibile!
Last week, Krissy Mahan came to our offices with a toolbag and supplies in hand. After a couple of hours of de-installing, installing, tweaking, and remodeling, SRLP’s bathroom is more accessible to people with disabilities. Krissy has a couple more plans up her sleeve, but check out what she’s already…
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New prison mail: Being trans is a journey, but not a choice!
Making the leap to affirm our genders can be challenging for anyone in this predominantly heteronormative and cissexist society. Incarcerated trans woman Jakaelynn tells us why doing so behind bars is especially trying, and likens the experience of transition to Alice’s fabled journey down the rabbit hole. Warning: The…
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Build and Learn with SRLP at the Philly Trans Health Conference 2014!
Madness Mapping with Gabriel Arkles, SRLP Collective Member, and Ofelia del Corazón Thursday, June 12, 4:05-5:25, Room 107A This workshop is primarily by and for members of trans* and queer communities who consider themselves mad, psychiatric survivors, mental health consumers, people with psychiatric disabilities, or people who experience extreme states. In…
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Video: KOKUMO uses her voice to support trans and gender non-conforming prisoners
SRLP is thrilled to launch our community-led video series featuring work by trans and gender nonconforming people in prison and readings by community members on the outside. Take a look at our first video, with a powerful reading by the enormously talented singer and media producer, KOKUMO, who lends her voice…
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BREAKING: New York State Updates Birth Certificate Policy, Removing Surgical Requirement
The Sylvia Rivera Law Project is excited to announce that after ten years of hard work and negotiations New York State has made an important policy change that eliminates barriers to identity documents by allowing transgender New Yorkers to change the gender marker on their birth certificate without undergoing surgery.…
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SRLP Drop-In Closed Tomorrow (June 5)
SRLP’s drop-in hours are cancelled for Thursday, June 5 (tomorrow). Our next open drop-in hours will be Thursday, June 12 from 1-5 with Spanish interpretation from 3-5. See you then! Our office is located at 147 WEST 24TH STREET, 5TH FLOOR, NEW YORK, NY 10011. Walk-ins are welcome, but please…
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What is life like in prison? The unsimple answer. (Part 4)
In what may be the most extensive entry ever submitted to our blog, Jessica – an incarcerated trans woman – attempts to answer the question, “What is life like in prison?” She shares with us an entry that is chock-full of thoughts and stories, drawing from decades of personal experience.…
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Check Out the 2013 SRLP Annual Report!
Dear Community, It’s been an exciting year for the Sylvia Rivera Law Project! Our Prisoner Advisory Committee, made up of transgender people in prison, collaborated with SRLP staff and volunteers to launch Blogging from the Inside: Writings by Transgender People in Prison. In collaboration with partner organizations, we also launched…