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Guide For Making Evacuation Shelters Safe for Trans & Gender Non Conforming People

Hurricane Sandy could displace thousands of trans and gender non conforming people on the eastern seaboard.  To create safety for our comunity, The National Center for Transgender Equality put together this invaluable resource designed to make evacuation shelters more accessible.  Please read and pass the information along! http://transequality.org/Resources/MakingSheltersSafe_Aug2011_FINAL.pdf

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SRLP Collective Member Gabriel Arkles Publishes Article in NYU Law Review

SRLP collective member and former staff attorney Gabriel Arkles (center) published Correcting Race and Gender: Prison Regulation of Social Hierarchy Through Dress in this month’s issue of New York University Law Review, where Gabriel is also a law professor.  To read the article, click here Congrats Gabriel! Like What You See? Donate Here!

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Streetwise & Safe’s Andrea Ritchie Talks about NYPD Discriminatory Policing

Andrea Ritchie of Streetwise and Safe (pronounced SASS!) wrote this amazing op-ed in the Gay City News.  To get involved in the campaign, join us tomorrow night for a community forum on patrol guide changes.  details here from the Gay City News Unfinished Business: Community Safety Act Needed to End Discriminatory Policing of LGBT New […]

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Staking Our Claim: Trans Women’s Literature in the 21st Century

  Writers Imogen Binnie, Ryka Aoki, Donna Ostrowsky, and  Red Durkin will be joined by SRLP staff member Reina Gossett at the historic event Staking Our Claim: Trans Women’s Literature in the 21st Century at Barnard College on Thursday, October 18th. From Barnard Center For Research on Women: As our notions of feminism have evolved […]

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SRLP10 Honoree Profile: When Janet Mock talks about Sylvia Rivera on Twitter

SRLP supporter Stephen Ira will be profiling the honorees for SRLP10, this profile of Janet Mock is the first in the series! When Janet Mock talks about Sylvia Rivera on Twitter By Stephen Ira   When Janet Mock talks about Sylvia Rivera on Twitter, people ask her who Rivera is.  She doesn’t give them context, […]

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Sylvia Rivera Law Project: Making a Grasssroots Fundraising Strategy Come Alive

  Theo Yang Copley, a writer and fundraising consultant who blogs at GIFT and Resource Generation, profiled SRLP’s grassroots fundraising strategy! Sylvia Rivera Law Project: Making a Grasssroots Fundraising Strategy Come Alive —————————-   The Sylvia Rivera Law Project is about to celebrate a huge milestone, their tenth anniversaryand there is a lot to celebrate, […]

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