SRLP Membership Director Reina Gossett spoke to ABC News about why she identifies as queer. Reina Gossett, a 30-year-old transgender woman who identifies as “queer,” said the term is “political” and has a “legacy of resistance.” “There is a long history of people who identified on the margins of culture,” she said. “It’s about naming […]
SRLP Closed for Election Day!
SRLP will be closed on Tuesday, November 5, 2013 in honor of election day. SRLP se cerrará el Martes, 05 de noviembre 2013 en honor del día de las elecciones.
Alisha Williams passes New York State Bar!
After having passed both New Jersey Pennsylvania bars Alisha Williams, Prisoner Justice Project director, went on to take the New York State bar and found out today that she passed! This is great news for SRLP and our community because it allows Alisha to represent incarcerated members and members of the Prison Advisory Committee in […]
SRLP joins instagram!
Follow us at @sylviariveralawproject in order to keep up with all of our photogenic gender self determining work!
Support Sylvia Rivera’s Outlaws bowling for FIERCE!
Help us help FIERCE meet their fundraising goal and continue their incredible work building power and leadership among LGBTQ youth of color in NYC! We’re bowling on Saturday, October 26, and have five days to reach our $3,000 fundraising goal. So far we’ve raised $1,847. Can you help us in the home stretch? Click here […]
Director of Grassroots Fundraising, Ola Osaze, says goodbye to SRLP!
Director of Grassroots Fundraising Ola Osaze will have his last day on SRLP staff this Thursday. Over the past two years Ola has raised both the visibility and grassroots power of the Sylvia Rivera Law Project through tireless work and organizing events like SRLP10, Small Works 4 Big Change, SRLP Gala, legal receptions […]
SRLP director of immigrant justice Pooja Gehi presenting at ‘Echoes of Ghadar’ Conference!
Organized by South Asia Solidarity Initiative (SASI), the Echoes of Ghadar convergence aims to revive the often forgotten history of the Ghadar movement, through: a celebration of music, films, and conversations among grassroots activists from South Asia and the U.S.. These activities will provide grassroots activists with a unique opportunity to learn from the history of […]
Al Jazeera America reports on police profiling trans people and what we are doing to stop it!
Al Jazeera America recently spotlighted the NYPD practices of profiling trans and gender non conforming people and the resistance that organizations such as Streetwise and Safe, Trans Justice of the Audre Lorde Project and the Sylvia Rivera Law Project are doing to stop it. Check out the article here !
Tomorrow! New Member Orientation at 7 PM
SRLP’s Elana Redfield presents for first ever Judicial Institute training on transgender litigants
Today SRLP’s staff attorney Elana Redflied presented with Judge Moulton and retired Judge Hepner about providing affirming legal services in the courts. Elana’s presentation was the first of a three part program to educate judges, court officers, and attorneys about transgender and gender non conforming people in the judicial system. Day two of the Judicial […]