Olivia is a queer Afro-Latina and the 2013 MBT summer intern at SRLP. Currently a senior at Mount Holyoke College, studying politics and sociology, she is fortunate enough to be leading MHC’s prison abolition cultural organization, Students Against Mass Incarceration (SAMI), this year also. Before her arrival at SRLP, Olivia graduated from Naugatuck Valley […]
Five in One, on 24th: LGBTQ Activism Thrives Article
A quick elevator trip at 147 reveals that the building is home to a unique community of activists. From the third floor to the sixth, the facilities are dedicated — in one way or another — to advocating for the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, two spirit, trans and gender non-conforming people. – See more at Chelsea […]
SRLP Contributes to Social Security Victory!
For the past ten years SRLP has worked tirelessly to urge local, state and federal government agencies to change their onerous gender marker policies. Just two weeks ago, SRLP participated in a groundbreaking meeting with the Social Security Administration about LGBT issues coordinated by the National Center for Transgender Equality, the Transgender Law Center, and […]
SRLP Presents at Philly Trans Health Conference!
SRLP Prisoner Justice Project director Alisha Williams and former SRLP staff member Chase Strangio will be presenting today at the Philly Trans Health Conference! Their workshop, Transgender Injustice: Police Encounters and Incarceration, A Know Your Rights Workshop runs from 2:20 to 3:40 in room 102A. Check it out! To find out more information click here!
SRLP Attorney Pooja Gehi Honored by UCLA’s Williams Institute!
The Williams Institute at University of California Los Angeles awarded SRLP attorney Pooja Gehi with the 2012 Dukeminier Award & The Ezekiel Webber Prize for her recent law review article. Pooja’s article, Gendered (In)Security: Migration and Criminalization in the Security State was originally published in by Harvard’s Journal of Law & Gender and was selected […]
SRLP Mentioned On BuzzFeed!
Both grassroots fundraising director Ola Osaze & membership director Reina Gossett made it into BuzzFeed last week. Ola’s studious subway reading was captured here and Reina was profiled about her blog, which you can read here!
Angela Davis on Dean Spade’s Normal Life, Miss Major, Trans Activism & Abolition
Check out this amazing speech by Angela Davis, during which she names the importance of disability justice and trans activism in the prison abolition movement. She also holds up the work & lives of Miss Major Eric A Stanley, Cece McDonald, Beth Ritchie, and our very own Dean Spade! Brilliant!
Success: Protest at City Hall to End Secure Communities & Stop and Frisk
Thanks to SRLP community for sharing the news about the press conference this morning to end Secure Communities and Stop and Frisk! It was a great success, with many organizations sharing their visions and strategies to end policing practices that harm low income, people of color communities!
New videos for SRLP’s 8th Annual Small Works for Big Change
The Sylvia Rivera Law Project Collective is thrilled to celebrate our 8th Annual Small Works for Big Change! Check out these new videos by Luce Capco Lincoln. Saturday, May 18th, 2013, 5-9PM. Bidding ends at 8pm sharp! Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square S., NYC *Wheelchair accessible* VIDEO: SRLP’s 8th ANNUAL SMALL WORKS for BIG CHANGE! VIDEO: SRLP’s […]
Buy your after party tickets now – Small Works for Big Change is Saturday!
This Saturday is Small Works for Big Change, SRLP’s 8th annual art benefit, which will be held from 5-9pm at Judson Memorial Church in Manhattan. Head to Brooklyn after the art auction for the official after party sponsored by Hey Queen. Get your advanced tickets for the after party today! HEY QUEEN! presents: 3rd Annual […]