SRLP Collective Member Gabriel Arkles examines the recently rescinded Title IX guidance on sex-segregated facilities, the effect it will have on trans students, and what protections still remain for TGNCI youth in schools. Read more here.
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SRLP’s Mik Kinkead Speaks to AlterNet on Involvement in Nationwide Walkout Against Trump
Mik Kinkead, SRLP Prisoner Justice Project, talks to AlterNet about the role of legal professionals and organizations in the mass strike against the Trump Administration and the broader movement for social justice. Read more about it here.
SRLP’s Hate Crime Stance Mentioned in Analysis on Intersections of Disability Justice and Racial Justice
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What You Can Do To Bring TGNCI Prisoners Home
Chelsea Manning will be released from prison in 95 days, on May 17, 2017. For so many people who are allies and supporters of Chelsea, her release marks an important end to the trauma she underwent for the past three and a half years in a military prison that refused to recognize her basic humanity. […]
How to Take Care of Yourself as a TGNCI Immigrant
For English, please see below. Estimada comunidad, Quiero reconocer cómo difícil que ha sido esta semana, cómo difícil que han sido las semanas para usted. Quiero reconocer cuánto ha estado lastimando las noticias, cómo el miedo, la duda y la confusion que han afectado su sentido de pertenencia en los Estados Unidos como un inmigrante. […]
Tell the American Bar Association to End Its Attack on Disabled People
In the past month, the American Bar Association’s Section of Litigation announced a “roundtable” on the Americans with Disabilities Act that would focus on so-called “drive-by ADA lawsuits.” The American Bar Association is one of the largest membership organizations for lawyers in the United States and claims to be committed to “defending liberty, […]
Resourcing Our Communities is Resistance
The Sylvia Rivera Law Project is committed to growing the ability of trans, gender non-conforming, and intersex community members who are people of color and low-income to advocate for themselves and better navigate state systems that are designed to marginalize and divide us. To assist our folks and their allies, we are pleased to release […]
Trans Prisoner Day of Solidarity
“It’s revolutionary to connect with love” – Reina Gossett Today is Trans Prisoner Day of Action and Solidarity. For the past 10 years, the Sylvia Rivera Law Project’s (SRLP) movement building work has been fortified by our Prisoner Advisory Committee (PAC), a group of over 100 formerly and currently incarcerated trans, gender non-conforming, and intersex […]
Order Your 2017 SRLP Prisoner Advisory Committee Calendar!
By Sylvia Rivera Law Project on January 20, 2017 in Publications and Resources, SRLP Prisoner Advisory Committee
Order your 2017 calendar today! SRLP’s beautiful 12-month calendar showcases the artwork of SRLP Prisoner Advisory Committee members who are locked away in New York state detention facilities. Even while existing under some of the most violent and isolating conditions, our PAC members continue to find ways to survive, resist, and break down physical barriers created to […]
15 Systematic Policies and Legal Rules That SRLP Helped Change
By Sylvia Rivera Law Project on December 20, 2016 in Birth Certificates, Identification, Immigrant Rights Project, Legal, News, Newsletter, Policy Advocacy, Prisoner Rights Project, SRLP News, Survival and Self Determination Project
It’s been almost 15 years since SRLP was founded as a multi-racial, trans-led collective organization working for economic, racial, and gender justice. You might not know that over the last 15 years SRLP has worked to win the following important victories: Morrill v. Morrill, establishing a transgender parent’s right to visit her children. Doe v. […]