This Friday & Saturday SRLP former and current staff members Elana Redfield, Gabriel Foster, Dean Spade, Ezra Berkley Nepon and Reina Gossett will gather with many other brilliant activists to explore the dilemmas and contradictions created within social movements run by nonprofit based leaders and organizations expand on the…
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Prisoner Advisory Committee Postcard Party Pictures!
Thank you to all our amazing community members who came out to break down the isolating walls of incarceration and connect with SRLP incarcerated members of the Prisoner Advisory Committee! We made out over 70 postcards, which will be deeply appreciated by everyone on PAC!
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SRLP’s Reina Gossett talks trans people in the media with Laverne Cox, Kye Allums and Tiq Milan
Reina Gossett, SRLP’s membership director, Laverne Cox and Kye Allums spoke on a panel about trans people in the media moderated by Tiq Milan. Growing Visibility: Transgender People in the Media was held on September 25, 2013, in New York City. “Historical erasure of trans people, specifically trans people…
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SRLP Welcomes New Director of Grassroots Fundraising Avi Cummings!
SRLP is pleased to introduce our new Director of Grassroots Fundraising, Avi Cummings! Before joining SRLP, Avi spent several years organizing for racial justice and white anti-racist education, prison abolition, economic justice and wealth redistribution, and queer and trans liberation from Western Massachusetts to Madison, Wisconsin, and now in NYC.…
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The Dubious Distinction of Being the First Out Trans Woman in Military Prison
Check out SRLP supporter Victoria Law’s informative article about Chelsea Manning, the prison industrial complex and the dubious distinction of being the first out trans woman in military prison. You can read it here!
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Check out these beautiful pictures from the Miss Major Jay Toole Building Naming Ceremony!
Thanks to Syd London for these wonderful photographs and to NGLTF and GLAAD for co-sponsoring the event ! Miss Major Jay Toole Building Dedication Click here to see the many wonderful photos of the event. The Miss Major Jay Toole Building for Social & Economic Justice Housing: The Audre Lorde…
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Beck Witt’s speech honoring Miss Major during the MMJT Naming Ceremony
“I’m honored to be able to speak to you all tonight at this building dedication for Miss Major and jay Toole. It’s been a tremendous privilege having Major at the center of my life for the past 8 years, first as her partner and later as her political comrade and…
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Dean Spade in Buzzfeed: What’s wrong with the campaign for transgender inclusion in the military?
Buzzfeed’s Chris Geidner talks to Dean Spade about the campaign for transgender inclusion in the military: http://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/meet-the-trans-scholar-fighting-against-the-campaign-for-out
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OITNB’s Laverne Cox mentions SRLP in new interview in The Nation
Star of Orange Is The New Black Laverne Cox mentioned SRLP’s work on trans incareceration during her recent interview with The Nation. What some nonprofits that you support in terms of the transgender community? I’ve been lucky to be affiliated with a few organizations over the years. I’ve worked with the Transgender…
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Reina Gossett pays tribute to Jay Toole at Miss Major-Jay Toole Building naming
The building housing the Sylvia Rivera Law Project at 147 W. 24th Street, which houses five of the city’s longest standing LGBTQ people of color and low income people-led organizations including the Audre Lorde Project, FIERCE, Queers for Economic Justice, Streetwise and Safe in addition to SRLP, was officially named the Miss Major-Jay…