The breakout star talks to Salon about her career path and the need for more portrayals of trans women on TV http://www.salon.com/2013/07/25/laverne_cox_on_her_orange_is_the_new_black_character_shes_a_survivor/
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Watching Laverne Cox in Orange Is The New Black #OITNB ? SRLP Gives You the Facts on #Trans Incarceration!
Are you following trans actress Laverne Cox’s incredible performance in Netflix’s Orange Is The New Black series? This diagram illustrates how over policing and profiling of low income people and of trans and gender non-conforming people intersect, producing a far higher risk than average of imprisonment, police harassment, and violence for low income trans […]
SRLP Seeks Director of Grassroots Fundraising (Part-Time)
SRLP Seeks Director of Grassroots Fundraising (Part-Time) Mission: The Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP) works to guarantee that all people are free to self-determine their gender identity and expression, regardless of income or race, and without facing harassment, discrimination, or violence. SRLP is a collective organization founded on the understanding that gender self-determination is […]
Reina Gossett – Reflections on Marsha P. Johnson’s Birthday !
Happy Birthday Marsha “Pay It No Mind” Johnson! Guest Post by Reina Gossett Marsha “Pay It No Mind” Johnson A few months ago I took the PATH train to Hoboken with my artistic collaborator Sasha Wortzel to interview Randy Wicker for a film we are making about Sylvia Rivera. Randy is one of the […]
Join SRLP at the 9th Annual Trans Day of Action!
Bring your best cheers, jazz hands, chants or spirit as we take it to the streets, together! For those of you nearby, please join us for this year’s 9th Annual Trans Day of Action, hosted by the Audre Lorde Project’s TransJustice! We’ll be meeting here at SRLP this Friday, June 28th at 12 noon to […]
SRLP Welcomes Olivia Jones, Our Newest Movement Building Intern!
Olivia is a queer Afro-Latina and the 2013 MBT summer intern at SRLP. Currently a senior at Mount Holyoke College, studying politics and sociology, she is fortunate enough to be leading MHC’s prison abolition cultural organization, Students Against Mass Incarceration (SAMI), this year also. Before her arrival at SRLP, Olivia graduated from Naugatuck Valley […]
Five in One, on 24th: LGBTQ Activism Thrives Article
A quick elevator trip at 147 reveals that the building is home to a unique community of activists. From the third floor to the sixth, the facilities are dedicated — in one way or another — to advocating for the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, two spirit, trans and gender non-conforming people. – See more at Chelsea […]
SRLP Contributes to Social Security Victory!
For the past ten years SRLP has worked tirelessly to urge local, state and federal government agencies to change their onerous gender marker policies. Just two weeks ago, SRLP participated in a groundbreaking meeting with the Social Security Administration about LGBT issues coordinated by the National Center for Transgender Equality, the Transgender Law Center, and […]
SRLP Attorney Pooja Gehi Honored by UCLA’s Williams Institute!
The Williams Institute at University of California Los Angeles awarded SRLP attorney Pooja Gehi with the 2012 Dukeminier Award & The Ezekiel Webber Prize for her recent law review article. Pooja’s article, Gendered (In)Security: Migration and Criminalization in the Security State was originally published in by Harvard’s Journal of Law & Gender and was selected […]
SRLP Mentioned On BuzzFeed!
Both grassroots fundraising director Ola Osaze & membership director Reina Gossett made it into BuzzFeed last week. Ola’s studious subway reading was captured here and Reina was profiled about her blog, which you can read here!