“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 […]
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SRLP’s Kyle Rapinan Speaks to Courthouse News on Surge of TGNCI Folks Seeking Name Changes
By Kimberly Mckenzie, Director of Outreach and Community Engagement on January 20, 2017 in SRLP In The Media
Kyle Rapinan, SRLP Survival and Self-Determination Project Director, talks to Courthouse News on trans people rushing to change their name and/or gender marker before the Trump administration and the difficulties and discrimination often faced during that process. Read more about this here.
New Year, Continued Resistance
“This year I want to see the whole city be powerful together” – Sheneeneh Smith, SRLP Movement Building Team member The urgency for continued resistance this New Year has a lot of us thinking, dreaming, and fearing what’s next. In the last year, our struggle to support the rights, leadership, and lives of trans, gender […]
Transformation from the Inside Out: SRLP Attends the Women’s Building Opening
By Sasha Alexander, SRLP Director of Membership on January 17, 2017 in Everyday Abolition, Membership, News, Policy Advocacy, SRLP News
Yesterday, SRLP Members and Staff attended the Women’s Building opening, “Transformation from the Inside Out”, at the former Bayview Women’s Correctional Facility in NYC, hosted by the Women and Justice Project. This historic opening symbolizes the importance of abolishing prisons and jails everywhere – the Bayview Facility opened in 1978, driven by racist War […]
SRLP Gets a Shout Out from Wear Your Voice as an Org to Support This Holiday Season
By Kimberly Mckenzie, Director of Outreach and Community Engagement on December 22, 2016 in SRLP In The Media
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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. […]
SRLP Pushes to Reduce Hurdles to Obtaining Gender-Affirming Documents
By Kyle Rapiñan, Director of Survival and Self-Determination on December 20, 2016 in Identification, Legal, News, Newsletter, Policy Advocacy, SRLP News, Survival and Self Determination Project
On December 19th, the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s Bureau of Vital Statistics held a public meeting of the NYC Gender Marker Change Advisory Board, where SRLP testified that the Board should permit fee waivers, gender self-attestation, and non-binary designations on birth certificates issued by New York City. Joining SRLP in coalition were […]
Meet the Newest SRLP Staff Members of 2016!
It’s hard to believe 2016 is almost coming to an end. This year has been filled with many transitions and changes. As a collective, we continue to move and rise in solidarity with our community behind the wall, on the front lines, and all trans, gender non-conforming, and intersex (TGNCI) folks who are surviving, resisting, and […]
PBS Covers SRLP’s Cruz Case and the Fight for Affirming Care for Trans Youth
By Kimberly Mckenzie, Director of Outreach and Community Engagement on November 27, 2016 in SRLP In The Media
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Vice Media Covers “How Homelessness is Killing Trans People”
By Kimberly Mckenzie, Director of Outreach and Community Engagement on November 22, 2016 in SRLP In The Media
On Trans Day of Remembrance, Vice profiles several community members (including a former SRLP client) on the factors that place TGNCI people at risk and lead to disproportionate homelessness in our communities. Read more about this here.