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
Author Archive | Sylvia Rivera Law Project
SRLP Office Closed Monday 10/29
Dear SRLPers, the office will be closed Monday the 29th because of Hurricane Sandy. Be safe and stay tuned about Tuesday!
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!
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 […]
COMMUNITY FORUM ON NYPD PATROL GUIDE CHANGES
Want to know more about recent changes to the NYPD’s policies for interactions with transgender & gender non conforming people? Join us for a community forum on October 25th at 7pm! Find out what these changes mean for our community! What: a history of the community organizing and advocacy that has led to this victory […]
Help Raise the Indiegogo Bar!
Thanks to your support SRLP has raised nearly $3,000 since we launched our indiegogo campaign. Today we are hoping to push beyond the 3,000 dollar mark! We only need 10 people to donate 20 dollars each, please consider being one of those ten. And if you can’t donate, please help spread the word! Click here […]
Staking Our Claim: Trans Women’s Literature in the 21st Century
By Sylvia Rivera Law Project on October 16, 2012 in Events, News, SRLP 10, SRLP In The Media, SRLP News
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 […]
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, […]
SRLP Honoree Janet Mock and Supporter Stephen Ira stop by
Honoree Janet Mock & SRLP supporter Stephen Ira stopped by the office today to help us get ready for SRLP10! Attend the Celebration on November 8th! Join us in commemorating our 10 year milestone. Buy your tickets here If you aren’t in NYC you can still support SRLP10 too by helping us raise $15,000 BY […]
Sylvia Rivera Law Project: Making a Grasssroots Fundraising Strategy Come Alive
By Sylvia Rivera Law Project on October 10, 2012 in Events, News, SRLP 10, SRLP In The Media, SRLP News
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, […]