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 […]
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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 […]
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!
SRLP Annual Report 2012
2012 was an exciting year for all of us involved in SRLP! We provided free, respectful and affirming legal services, advice, and referrals to over 350 community members. We reduced discrimination and violence by reaching over 1,500 service providers, attorneys, judges, students, and activists at 26 trainings and speaking engagements across the country. We also offered 10 community […]
Exciting Week At SRLP: Life Chances, Pack the Courts and Mailing Party!
Tonight Life Chances: HIV Criminalization and Trans Politics In Conversation with Che Gossett, Dean Spade, Mitchyll Mora, and Sean Strub Hosted by Laverne Cox April 24th, 2013 @ 7pm Leslie Lohman Museum 26 Wooster Street Free https://www.facebook.com/events/514413998623156/ “How can we build real safety in communities and achieve universal access to material well being?” – Dean […]
This Weekend: SRLP Presenting at the Civil Liberties Public Policy Conference!
SRLP collective & staff members Katherine Cross, Reina Gossett and Gabriel Foster will be presenting at the 27th annual CLPP Conference this year! The conference is free and open to the public so if you are in the are come join us! Directions and conference info can be found here Saturday 1:15-2:45pm Queering Reproductive Justice […]
SRLP staff, collective members, community named to Trans 100
The inaugural Trans 100 list was released today, and SRLP was well represented on the list. SRLP staffers Reina Gossett and Ola Osaze and SRLP collective member Katherine Cross were named to the list, as were many past and present SRLP volunteers, interns and collective members. SRLP 10 honoree Janet Mock was also named to […]
APRIL 18// NEW MEMBER ORIENTATION & FILM SCREENING!
Exciting New, SRLP Community! Next week we will be hosting both a new member orientation from 6-7 PM and then a Toilet Training & Discussion with film director, Tara Mateik from 7.15-8PM on the 4th Floor. Both events are free and open to everyone! Light refreshments will be served and metro cards provided. Hope […]
Dare To DREAM Bigger
Pooja Gehi, Director of Immigrant Justice As an attorney at the Sylvia Rivera Law Project I feel an urgent need to reflect upon President Obama’s promise of Comprehensive Immigration Reform (CIR) and what this means for our community. Most of our trans immigrants clients flee their homes in search of safety; most have little […]