Last week Gabriel Foster, Elana Redfield and Reina Gossett presented at Queer Dreams and Nonprofit Blues: Dilemmas of the Nonprofit Tradition in LGBT Politics. To watch Elana Redfield plenary presentation on Building Alternative Queer/Trans Social Justice Infrastructure click here To listen to Gabriel Foster’s panel presentation on Can Philanthropy and Democracy be Reconciled? click here […]
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Get your SRLP 10 t-shirt before they’re gone!
Get your SRLP 10 t-shirt before they’re gone! For sizes L and XL, you can place your order here: http://srlp.org/get-involved/merchandise/merchandiseorderform/ For other sizes, a handy online tutorial and a sewing machine will make it happen. Email avi@srlp.org or reply to this message.
New Membership Orientation October 17th at 7PM!
Thanks for Supporting SRLP!
Thanks to our generous hosts Urvashi Vaid, Kate Clinton, and Michael Harrell, and a special shout out to SRLP core collective member Alysan McCann for her heartfelt and beautiful words about SRLP’s crucial work at last night’s fundraiser. Thanks also to Gotham Wines and Liquors and El Dorado Rum for their in-kind donations. To […]
SRLP Former & Current Staff Presenting at Queer Dreams and Nonprofit Blues Conference!
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 work of alternative leadership and […]
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!
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 of color, trans people with […]
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. He learned the ropes of […]
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!
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 Project, FIERCE, Queers for Economic […]