Since SRLP launched our campaign for safe and affordable healthcare in New York nearly 2,000 people have signed the petition calling on Governor Cuomo and NYS Health Com. Shah to repeal Medicaid’s discriminatory regulation that prevents trans and gender non conforming people from accessing healthcare. Thank you for your support! This past week Al Jazeera America interviewed […]
Trans Day of Remembrance #TDOR at The Miss Major-Jay Toole Building for Social Justice
Join Transjustice and the The Miss Major – Jay Toole Building for Social Justice as we come together to create a space for healing, grieving, and celebrating the resiliency of our Trans and Gender Non-Conforming People of Color communities Wednesday, November 20th, in honor of Trans Day of Remembrance. This year we will have an art space, […]
PAC Members show support for Chelsea Manning
For background, in 2010 the anti-secrecy organization WikiLeaks published classified U.S. Army intelligence files determined to have been supplied by former U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning. Following her arrest, Manning plead guilty to leaking military information and was convicted of twenty-two related offenses. This debacle, along with her recent coming out as a transgender […]
Reflections on new GID policy, from PAC
“A Win For Transgender Prisoners,” by R. Cepeda. There has been a recent victory for transgender prisoners in the New York State Prison system regarding hormone treatment for those with GID (Gender Identity Disorder). In the past, transgender prisoners could not get hormones unless they could prove that they were getting treatment from a doctor […]
New GID Policy for NYS Prisons, Yet Healthcare Still Inaccessible
At the end of last month, The Private Manning Support Network posted a letter that details Ms. Chelsea Manning’s intentions to fight for hormone replacement therapy (HRT), gender-consistent “real life experience” (RLE) and “sex-reassignment surgery” (SRS) within the correctional facility she will be serving her thirty-five year sentence, the United States Disciplinary Barracks at Fort […]
Introducing the Prisoner Advisory Committee Blog!
The Sylvia Rivera Law Project’s collective model prioritizes the voices of the people most affected by the systems of violence and oppression we fight daily. This model of community involvement led to the creation of our Prisoner Advisory Committee (PAC); a committee of trans, intersex, gender non-conforming people and allies who are currently incarcerated in […]
SRLP’s Reina Gossett talks to ABC News about queer identity, Sylvia Rivera
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!