As we mourn the death of Kalief Browder and the many other New Yorkers who die through State-induced violence, SRLP joins activists from across the city in calling on the Board of Corrections to make wholly new and meaningful changes to how suicidality is cared for in the City jails. We request that outside experts […]
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The fight for trans-inclusive healthcare continues!
On Friday June 26, the Christopher Street Pier was alive with trans* and gender non-conforming advocates, community members, survivors, and organizers rallying with the Audre Lorde Project’s TransJustice demanding an end to state violence in detention centers, prisons, and psychiatric hospitals at the hands of police and other state actors. We were demanding that the […]
SRLP legal intakes are now open!
Our walk-in legal intakes are now re-opened! Walk-in hours takes place on Thursdays between 1:30 PM to 4:30 PM. Spanish interpretation will be available.
Introducing the Summer 2015 SRLP Intern Team!
Name, Position and Team at SRLP: Andy Escobar, Reproductive Rights Activist Service Corps (RRASC) Intern, Movement Building Team Pronouns: He/Him/His What school do you go to/what school did you go to? The University of Texas at Austin What are you studying? I’m graduating in December with a B.A. in Latin American Studies, a B.A. in […]
Black trans love is revolutionary: SRLP’s Sasha Alexander and their wife Olympia Perez speaks on NBC News
Love is indeed a revolutionary act when you are black and transgender. In this powerful and healing clip on NBC News titled Living Color: Love is Revolutionary When You’re Black and Transgender, SRLP’s Sasha Alexander and their wife and SRLP movement organizer Olympia Perez speak about loving and finding strength in each other amidst a […]
SRLP’s recommendations to the Board of Corrections on PREA
One of SRLP’s mission is to fight the violence our communities experience, which requires resisting against the Prison Industrial Complex. Part of this process involves addressing and mitigating some of the most harmful effects of institutional violence experienced by those who are incarcerated. Recently our staff attorney and Director of Prisoner Justice Project, Mik Kinkead, […]
Thank you for raising money for SRLP on Give OUT Day!
We did it! Thank you so much for helping the Sylvia Rivera Law Project surpass its Give OUT Day fundraising goal this year! This year, not only have we raised more money than last year’s Give OUT Day, we also ranked second in total number of donors in New York City, which won us additional […]
SRLP’s Zahyr Lauren spoke about being a civil rights attorney
Zahyr Lauren, SRLP’s Director of Survival and Self-Determination Project, was recently interviewed in IndyKids about zir’s role as an attorney for SRLP and what inspired zir to work in civil rights. Read the full interview here
SRLP’s remarks on PREA at the Board of Correction’s monthly meeting
By Sylvia Rivera Law Project on May 14, 2015 in Legal, News, Prisoner Rights Project, SRLP Prisoner Advisory Committee
On May 12th, advocates from SRLP attended the monthly meeting of the Board of Correction – the body charged with monitoring all city correctional facilities – and spoke in favor of the Board adopting Rules enforcing compliance with the Prison Rape Elimination Act for the city jails. SRLP went further than the PREA standards and […]
HRA Now Issuing Common Benefit Identification Cards WITHOUT gender marker!!
By Sylvia Rivera Law Project on May 13, 2015 in Legal, News, Policy Advocacy, Survival and Self Determination Project
Most New Yorkers will know CBIC’s (pictured below) as their benefits or food stamps cards. The Human Resources Administration (HRA) has undergone a policy change allowing them to issue CBIC’s (Common Benefit Identification Cards) without gender markers on them. CBIC’s are commonly used to access services like (TANF) Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Medicaid, and […]