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Meet Lorena Borjas, SRLP 10 Honoree

By Stephen Ira   Lorena Borjas has years of work trailing behind her like the train of a gown.  Work in Queens, in her neighborhood of Jackson Heights, work with the trans folks she calls her chicas, who follow her into Sylvia Rivera Law Project’s intake sessions on Thursdays. I’m often the youngest person in […]

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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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Over 1,000 Dollars in the First 24 Hours!

We had an incredibly successful first day of our campaign, thank you SRLP Community! Help fund the next 10 years of @srlp‘s groundbreaking work: ow.ly/ejbB1 #trans #girlslikeus — Janet Mock (@janetmock) October 8, 2012 With your incredible support -spreading the word & donating- you raised over $1,000 for SRLP in the first 24 hours of […]

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