This morning, members of the Sylvia Rivera Law Project participated in a direct action at HX Refactored, a health care conference in New York City, attended by the new NY State Department of Health Commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker. We went to stop business as usual at the Department of Health. 16 years…
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Join ALP, FIERCE, SAS, and SRLP for #GiveOUTDay Happy Hour on May 15!
SRLP is excited to partner with our comrades in the Miss Major-Jay Toole Building for Social Justice, the Audre Lorde Project, FIERCE, and Streetwise and Safe, to host a Give OUT Day happy hour on May 15! When: Thursday, May 15, 7 PM – 10 PM Where: Franks Lounge, 660…
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Read SRLP collective member Katherine Cross on trans women, prison, and the limits of tolerance
Read Katherine Cross’s most recent piece on Feministing on Monica Jones, Jane Doe, and the prison industrial complex. From “I Hear Them Breathing: Trans women, prison, and the limits of tolerance:” 2014 has been a decidedly double edged-sword of a year for trans women thus far. “Awareness,” that maddeningly vague but precious…
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What is life like in prison? The unsimple answer. (Part 1)
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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Thursday 5/8: SRLP Drop In Hours Are Back!
SRLP’s Thursday drop-in hours will resume their regular schedule today! Come in for a free intake meeting (more information on our services below) and meet with SRLP staff attorneys Pooja Gehi and Elana Redfield. Below, Pooja and Elana are leaving Civil Court after filing names changes for SRLP clients. SRLP…
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Groundbreaking Report Co-Authored by SRLP Collective Member Dean Spade and Streetwise and Safe Coordinator Andrea Richie
Check out this groundbreaking report, A Roadmap for Change: Federal Policy Recommendations for Addressing the Criminalization of LGBT People and People with HIV, co-authored by Catherine Hanssens, Aisha-Moodie Millis, Andrea Ritchie, Dean Spade and Urvashi Vaid, with input from more than 50 legal, advocacy and grassroots organizations working on LGBT and…
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A Good Sign for SRLP’s Trans Healthcare Campaign!
SRLP is excited to hear that with an independent panel review coming to a close, the Department of Health and Human Services is expected to end Medicare’s blanket ban on gender-affirming surgery for transgender people. If passed, this decision will send an important message in support of SRLP’s argument that repealing…
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SRLP’s Pooja Gehi on the Criminal-Immigration System on Out-FM
The rapidly expanding collaboration between police and immigration authorities has a devastating impact on low-income queer and transgender immigrant communities. Federal programs such as “Secure Communities” (S-Comm) and the Criminal Alien Program, which effectively bring immigration authorities into every precinct and jail, have greatly increased the risk of deportation. Because…
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PHOTOS: May Day 2014
SRLP marched with our comrades at FIERCE!, Audre Lorde Project, Streetwise and Safe, and Queer Detainee Empowerment Project to demand an end to criminalization and stop deportations on May Day! View more photos on our Facebook page!
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TODAY 5/1/14: SRLP Office and Drop-In Hours Are Closed for May Day
Tomorrow, May 1, the SRLP office and our Thursday Drop-In hours will be closed for May Day. Drop-in will resume its normal schedule on Thursday, May 8. For more about SRLP’s free legal services and how to get legal help, visithttp://srlp.org/legal-services Join SRLP in solidarity with immigrants, undocumented people, people in…