We wish to express deep gratitude to friend of Sylvia Rivera Law Project Antony Hegarty. Antony will donate the proceeds from a Ten Thousand Things jewelry auction to SRLP. The current issue of V Magazine features both a portrait of Antony taken by Inez and Vinoodh as well as…
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SRLP Listed As Among Top 19 Biggest Impact National Non Profits
The Sylvia Rivera Law Project is pleased to announce that we were listed as among the top 19 national non profits “advancing the equality of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals and supporting the issues that the LGBT community tackles—including discriminatory policies, violence against members of the community,…
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New Member Orientation January 17th!
Happy 2013, SRLP Community! We’re excited about the work we’ll be doing this new year. This month we will host another the second new member orientation on January 17th at 6 PM. Orientations are a chance for you to learn how to become more involved with SRLP. For more information…
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Dean Spade: GritTV interview
GritTV recently posted an interview that Laura Flanders did with me.
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Sylvia Rivera Law Project Year End Greetings!
For 10 years, the Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP) has been working to make gender self-determination a reality for all people. We are grateful for all the clients, community members, activists, artists, donors and volunteers like YOU who continue to enrich and sustain this organization. As 2012 draws to a close, we invite you…
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NYC Secure Communities Bill Fails Transgender Immigrant Communities
CONTACTS: Pooja Gehi: (202) 491-7665 Tiloma Jayasinghe: (917) 669-0696 NYC Secure Communities Bill Fails Transgender Immigrant Communities *December 13, 2012 New York, NY* – A coalition of anti-violence advocates who work with immigrant survivors of family and intimate partner violence, human trafficking, sexual assault, and survivors of homophobic and transphobic…
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Debating ‘Gender Identity Disorder’ and Justice for Trans People
“The pushback from trans people around the inclusion of GID in the DSM seems to fail to incorporate a larger assessment of why we are so afraid of ‘disorder’ and who enjoys the benefit of avoiding stigma and pathologization. I want to think about the DSM and other medical and…
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New Video of Staking Our Claim: Trans Women’s Literature in the 21st Century!
From Barnard Center For Research On Women “Celebrating the release of The Collection: Short Fiction from the Transgender Vanguard (Topside Press, 2012), four of the volume’s contributors, Ryka Aoki, Imogen Binnie, Red Durkin, and Donna Ostrowsky come together to discuss future of literature, the complex ways that literary trans…
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Jueves: De rememoración a acción
El equipo del desarrollo de movimiento del Proyecto Legal Sylvia Rivera presenta: De rememoración a acción, transformando nuestro miedo, dolor, y luto en acción colectiva para cambio social Cuando: Jueves, 29 de noviembre, 6:30 a 8:30 pm Donde: Proyecto Legal Sylvia Rivera, 147 W. 24th St., quinto piso Edificio tiene…
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From Remembrance to Action, Thursday Evening at SRLP!
This Thursday SRLP’s Movement Building team presents: From Remembrance to Action: Turning Our Fear, Pain & Mourning into Collective Actions for Social Change. A community discussion. We want to end the violence and oppression experienced by our communities. How do we work towards a day when violence against trans and gender nonconforming…