Happy Birthday Marsha “Pay It No Mind” Johnson! Guest Post by Reina Gossett Marsha “Pay It No Mind” Johnson A few months ago I took the PATH train to Hoboken with my artistic collaborator Sasha Wortzel to interview Randy Wicker for a film we are making about Sylvia Rivera.…
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Join SRLP at the 9th Annual Trans Day of Action!
Bring your best cheers, jazz hands, chants or spirit as we take it to the streets, together! For those of you nearby, please join us for this year’s 9th Annual Trans Day of Action, hosted by the Audre Lorde Project’s TransJustice! We’ll be meeting here at SRLP this Friday, June…
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SRLP Welcomes Olivia Jones, Our Newest Movement Building Intern!
Olivia is a queer Afro-Latina and the 2013 MBT summer intern at SRLP. Currently a senior at Mount Holyoke College, studying politics and sociology, she is fortunate enough to be leading MHC’s prison abolition cultural organization, Students Against Mass Incarceration (SAMI), this year also. Before her arrival at SRLP,…
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Five in One, on 24th: LGBTQ Activism Thrives Article
A quick elevator trip at 147 reveals that the building is home to a unique community of activists. From the third floor to the sixth, the facilities are dedicated — in one way or another — to advocating for the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, two spirit, trans and gender non-conforming people.…
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SRLP Contributes to Social Security Victory!
For the past ten years SRLP has worked tirelessly to urge local, state and federal government agencies to change their onerous gender marker policies. Just two weeks ago, SRLP participated in a groundbreaking meeting with the Social Security Administration about LGBT issues coordinated by the National Center for Transgender Equality,…
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SRLP Presents at Philly Trans Health Conference!
SRLP Prisoner Justice Project director Alisha Williams and former SRLP staff member Chase Strangio will be presenting today at the Philly Trans Health Conference! Their workshop, Transgender Injustice: Police Encounters and Incarceration, A Know Your Rights Workshop runs from 2:20 to 3:40 in room 102A. Check it out! To find…
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SRLP Attorney Pooja Gehi Honored by UCLA’s Williams Institute!
The Williams Institute at University of California Los Angeles awarded SRLP attorney Pooja Gehi with the 2012 Dukeminier Award & The Ezekiel Webber Prize for her recent law review article. Pooja’s article, Gendered (In)Security: Migration and Criminalization in the Security State was originally published in by Harvard’s Journal of Law…
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SRLP Mentioned On BuzzFeed!
Both grassroots fundraising director Ola Osaze & membership director Reina Gossett made it into BuzzFeed last week. Ola’s studious subway reading was captured here and Reina was profiled about her blog, which you can read here!
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Angela Davis on Dean Spade’s Normal Life, Miss Major, Trans Activism & Abolition
Check out this amazing speech by Angela Davis, during which she names the importance of disability justice and trans activism in the prison abolition movement. She also holds up the work & lives of Miss Major Eric A Stanley, Cece McDonald, Beth Ritchie, and our very own Dean…
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Success: Protest at City Hall to End Secure Communities & Stop and Frisk
Thanks to SRLP community for sharing the news about the press conference this morning to end Secure Communities and Stop and Frisk! It was a great success, with many organizations sharing their visions and strategies to end policing practices that harm low income, people of color communities!