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, […]
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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 […]
Show your love: Give SRLP $5 NOW through May 21st
As a collective member of SRLP and a gender non-conforming working class person, I urge you to donate to SRLP now through Give OUT Day (May 21st) to resource the work of providing free, respectful and affirming legal services, building movement power, and struggling and living beautifully to realize a vision of trans liberation rooted […]
SRLP’s legal team breaks down what the new Medicaid regulations mean
By Sylvia Rivera Law Project on April 28, 2015 in Legal, News, Publications and Resources, Survival and Self Determination Project
Many people – ourselves included – have expressed confusion, irritation, and disappointment at the lack of substantive change in the rules that govern Medicaid coverage for low-income trans people following our 10-year struggle to end the blanket ban on trans healthcare. Mik Kinkead and I, two of SRLP’s legal advocates, have gone through the regulation […]
New York City Housing and Shelter Resources
By Sylvia Rivera Law Project on April 28, 2015 in Legal, Publications and Resources, Survival and Self Determination Project
New York City Housing and Shelter KNOW YOUR RIGHTS Under DHS policy, you have the right to be housed according to the gender you identify as. Shelter workers are required to call you by the name and pronouns you go by and to place you in a shelter that matches your gender, regardless of what […]
NO ONE IS DISPOSABLE: Stop NY from limiting visits with people in prison!
By Sylvia Rivera Law Project on April 23, 2015 in Legal, News, Prisoner Rights Project, SRLP Prisoner Advisory Committee
Advocates have been rallying against NYC Mayor de Blasio’s proposed changes to visiting conditions on Riker’s Island. While incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people, their loved ones, and advocates have been able to push for many important changes at Riker’s, these new changes almost “snuck in” amidst the better news. These proposed regulations aim to reduce violence […]
Today 4/22: SRLP at #HALTSolitaryConfinement advocacy day in Albany, NY
By Sylvia Rivera Law Project on April 22, 2015 in Everyday Abolition, Legal, News, Policy Advocacy, Prisoner Rights Project, SRLP Prisoner Advisory Committee
Today, April 22, SRLP’s Prisoner Justice Project Director Mik Kinkead and Outreach Director Juana Peralta are in Albany at the #HALTSolitaryConfinement Advocacy Day with NY Campaign for Alternatives to Isolated Confinement advocating to end the use of solitary confinement and other forms of extreme isolation in NY prison and jails. Over 3,800 people are in […]