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 […]
“Slapfight aftermath (handprints) Deelo & Katrina 2012” by Katrina del Mar
Katrina del Mar “Slapfight aftermath (handprints) Deelo & Katrina 2012” 2012 Medium: Digital Cprint on metallic paper Dimensions: 8″W x 10”H Minimum Bid: $150 Value: $500 Katrina del Mar is a New York-based art and commercial photographer, as well as an award winning film director. Her work has been described as beautiful exuding an intimate […]
“VENUS XTRAVAGANZA” by Adee Roberson
Adee Roberson “VENUS XTRAVAGANZA” Minimum Bid: $50 http://blackpineappleadee.tumblr.com/ http://blacksaltcollective.tumblr.com/
“Untitled (Pearls & Hair)” by Tuesday Smillie
Tuesday Smillie “Untitled (Pearls & Hair) 2009 Medium: Ink, watercolor, plastic pearls, wool on paper Dimensions: 8 7/8″ x 23 5/8″ Minimum Bid: $25 Value: $300