Director of Grassroots Fundraising Ola Osaze will have his last day on SRLP staff this Thursday. Over the past two years Ola has raised both the visibility and grassroots power of the Sylvia Rivera Law Project through tireless work and organizing events like SRLP10, Small Works 4 Big Change, SRLP Gala, legal receptions […]
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Al Jazeera America reports on police profiling trans people and what we are doing to stop it!
Al Jazeera America recently spotlighted the NYPD practices of profiling trans and gender non conforming people and the resistance that organizations such as Streetwise and Safe, Trans Justice of the Audre Lorde Project and the Sylvia Rivera Law Project are doing to stop it. Check out the article here !
SRLP’s Elana Redfield presents for first ever Judicial Institute training on transgender litigants
Today SRLP’s staff attorney Elana Redflied presented with Judge Moulton and retired Judge Hepner about providing affirming legal services in the courts. Elana’s presentation was the first of a three part program to educate judges, court officers, and attorneys about transgender and gender non conforming people in the judicial system. Day two of the Judicial […]
Legal Drop In Hours are Cancelled 10/10/2013
Please spread the word that SRLP will be CLOSED for drop in hours on 10/10/2013. Our next legal drop in hours will be the following Thursday 10/17/2013. Please note SRLP will be closing drop in hrs from 11/1/2013 until 2/1/2014
SRLP and the Judicial Institute present a three part continuing legal education
SRLP present with Judge Moulton and retired Judge Hepner about providing affirming legal services in the courts.
Listen to SRLP Staff Present at the Queer Dreams Non Profit Conference!
Last week Gabriel Foster, Elana Redfield and Reina Gossett presented at Queer Dreams and Nonprofit Blues: Dilemmas of the Nonprofit Tradition in LGBT Politics. To watch Elana Redfield plenary presentation on Building Alternative Queer/Trans Social Justice Infrastructure click here To listen to Gabriel Foster’s panel presentation on Can Philanthropy and Democracy be Reconciled? click here […]
Thanks for Supporting SRLP!
Thanks to our generous hosts Urvashi Vaid, Kate Clinton, and Michael Harrell, and a special shout out to SRLP core collective member Alysan McCann for her heartfelt and beautiful words about SRLP’s crucial work at last night’s fundraiser. Thanks also to Gotham Wines and Liquors and El Dorado Rum for their in-kind donations. To […]
SRLP Former & Current Staff Presenting at Queer Dreams and Nonprofit Blues Conference!
This Friday & Saturday SRLP former and current staff members Elana Redfield, Gabriel Foster, Dean Spade, Ezra Berkley Nepon and Reina Gossett will gather with many other brilliant activists to explore the dilemmas and contradictions created within social movements run by nonprofit based leaders and organizations expand on the work of alternative leadership and […]
Prisoner Advisory Committee Postcard Party Pictures!
Thank you to all our amazing community members who came out to break down the isolating walls of incarceration and connect with SRLP incarcerated members of the Prisoner Advisory Committee! We made out over 70 postcards, which will be deeply appreciated by everyone on PAC!
SRLP’s Reina Gossett talks trans people in the media with Laverne Cox, Kye Allums and Tiq Milan
Reina Gossett, SRLP’s membership director, Laverne Cox and Kye Allums spoke on a panel about trans people in the media moderated by Tiq Milan. Growing Visibility: Transgender People in the Media was held on September 25, 2013, in New York City. “Historical erasure of trans people, specifically trans people of color, trans people with […]