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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 Legal Defense & Education Fund—they […]

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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 Toole Building for Social Justice in […]

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Right Now: Alisha Williams, SRLP Prisoner Justice Director On Huffpost Live!

Tune in this morning at 10:51 here to hear SRLP’s own Prisoner Justice Director Alisha Williams on Huffpost Live talk about the realities for trans and gender non conforming people in prison, jail and detention centers. Also check out SRLP’s piece on Chelsea Manning and trans & gender non conforming people navigating healthcare while incarcerated […]

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Chelsea Manning and the realities for transgender and gender non-conforming people in prison, jails and detention centers.

Chelsea Manning and the realities for transgender and gender non-conforming people in prison, jails and detention centers. The Sylvia Rivera Law Project has been working tirelessly for the past ten years to support transgender people who are incarcerated and experience various forms of state violence and as an organization that supports racial and economic justice we […]

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Impossibility Now, a video and slideshow by Dean Spade via BCRW

“Impossibility Now” is a trans* politics manifesto by Dean Spade. This video was created for the February 2013 conference “Gender Talents: A Special Address,” which asked invited speakers to perform a manifesto. The video takes themes from Dean’s book, Normal Life, and illustrates them with images. See more at: http://sfonline.barnard.edu/gender-justice-and-neoliberal-transformations/impossibility-now/#sthash.wjm6Pu0h.dpuf via S&F Online, published by […]

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LGBTQ Organizations Urge NYC Council to Override Mayor Bloomberg’s Opposition to Ban Discriminatory NYPD Profiling

From Streetwise & Safe and the New York City Anti-Violence Project, for more info check out the Streetwise & Safe post here! — Dear New York City Council, We commend the New York City Council for leading the way toward putting an end to discriminatory policing of all of our communities by passing a comprehensive […]

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TGI JUSTICE ANNOUNCES SUPPORT FOR THE DEMANDS OF THE CA PRISONER HUNGER STRIKE

Check out this statement about the CA hunger strike from our sibling organization the Transgender Gender Varient Intersex Justice Project! TGI JUSTICE ANNOUNCES SUPPORT FOR THE DEMANDS OF THE CA PRISONER HUNGER STRIKE July 25, 2013                         ·          Oakland, CA TGI JUSTICE stands in solidarity with the mass hunger strike action inside of the California […]

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