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The Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP) works to guarantee that all people are free to determine their gender identity and expression

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@SRLP
Sylvia Rivera Law Project
4 years
Today, SCOTUS ruled that “an employer who fires an individual merely for being gay or transgender defies the law.” This is a major legal victory. Our fight to create a world without workplace discrimination for trans people, disproportionately trans people of color, goes on.
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Abolition requires that we build the conditions for resourced communities to thrive without police, incarceration, surveillance, or criminalization.
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THREAD Huge crowd at #Justice4TonyMcDade #Justice4NinaPop rally happening now at #Stonewall #NYC
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"I don't know what a world without prisons will look like, but it will fundamentally transform our relationship with other people." ~ @prisonculture
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Sylvia Rivera Law Project
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We are heartbroken and devastated by the passing last night of #LayleenPolanco , who was incarcerated at the Rose M. Singer Center on Rikers Island. We will hold space for rage & grief tonight at #BrooklynPride with @BlackTransMedia & @nonewjails_nyc #CloseRikersNOW #NoNewJails
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Sylvia Rivera Law Project
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Sylvia Rivera passed 18 years ago today, on February 19, 2002. We honor her life, leadership, and commitment to liberation for our communities: trans & gender non-conforming people of color, low-income TGNC people, sex workers, immigrants, incarcerated people, homeless people.
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Sylvia Rivera Law Project
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"Ky Peterson is a black trans man who was sentenced to 20 years for defending himself against his rapist. After 9 long years, Ky is finally coming home in July of 2020." Ky deserves to be free! Please support or share this fundraiser for his homecoming.
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Sylvia Rivera Law Project
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The Forgotten Ones: Queer and Trans Lives in the Prison System via @newyorker
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We are just learning that a trans woman was found killed in an apartment in the Bronx. She is being misgendered by the @nypost . We believe what we are hearing, and if this is accurate, she would be the 20th Black trans woman murdered in 2019 alone.
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"Trans people experience constant injustice. Behind bars it can be fatal. It’s on us to make sure no one - not one person - falls through the cracks. We can and we will."
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"International Transgender Day of Visibility can serve as a reminder that LGBTQIA+ people are incarcerated at startlingly disproportionate rates." #ChelseaResists
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Federal court halts Trump’s immigration ban
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Today is "first time SCOTUS will hear any case involving transgender rights... This is really huge, not just for the LGBTQ+ community, but for any worker who might not conform to someone else’s idea of how they should express their gender." ~ @Lavernecox
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Lawyers demand release of 20 transgender women asylum seekers in ICE custody, via @mic
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"On a day when capitalist corporations exploit love for profit, it’s important that we disrupt their narrative and affirm a revolutionary love that is rooted in our collective liberation. Love is tearing down prisons, borders, and pipelines." ~ @vrye (on IG)
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Sex workers deserve housing not handcuffs #DecrimNY #DecrimNOW
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Sylvia Rivera Law Project
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While the federal government runs immigration courts and prisons, local police departments are its eyes & ears
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“I do not want to leave my country, but I’m constantly scared that something will happen to me. I don’t want to be another number on a list of murdered trans women.”
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Today, always, we honor the humanity and preciousness of each trans woman of color whose loss we mourn. #TransDayofRemembrance
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"The onus is not on abolitionists to justify our position, it's on reformers to explain theirs." @prisonculture
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“If you’re really here for Black liberation, if you’re really here for trans liberation, then stand up for Black folks. Black trans lives matter!” ~ @SRLP Director of Membership Sasha Alexander
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Sylvia Rivera Law Project
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We created 90 packets full of cards and letters to trans people who are incarcerated. Reach out and fight the isolation of our communities!
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Sylvia Rivera Law Project
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Thank you for the shout-out @outmagazine ! We appreciate your solidarity with our work in movements for trans liberation rooted in racial & economic justice, along with these other groups, including our sister org @tgijp !
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Sylvia Rivera Law Project
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"You cannot shelter in place if the shelter is unsafe.“ ~Sasha Alexander 🚨ACTION ALERT 🚨 Visit to read our letter to @NYCDHS and take actions in solidarity with TGNCI New Yorkers living in shelter and the @SRLP Shelter Organizing Team #DHSIsAMess
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Sylvia Rivera Law Project
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Suicidal transgender boy faced discrimination in hospital
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Sylvia Rivera Law Project
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Forced To Serve 10 Years In A Men's Prison, A Trans Activist Demands Change
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Sylvia Rivera Law Project
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We will gather tomorrow evening in Brooklyn to honor the life of #YahiraNesby .
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Sylvia Rivera Law Project
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Trans Women Shouldn’t Have To Constantly Defend Their Own Womanhood via @morganmpage
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Sylvia Rivera Law Project
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“Now the cops want to march with us. Many people are buying it. But I’m not. I feel like my community is being bamboozled.” ~Tahtianna
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Abolition is the only option. Building jails will not decarcerate #NYC . Follow @nonewjails_nyc . NOW is the time to join the fight to #StopThePlan to build thousands of cages that would incarcerate our future for decades.
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SRLP Director of Outreach & Community Engagement Kimberly McKenzie, this morning in @washingtonpost ~ "The court’s decision isn’t a victory but a stance for basic human rights... Trans people deserve access to affirming health care."
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Sylvia Rivera Law Project
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Rest in power Bee Love Slater and Bailey Reeves. Through our rage, our grief, and our fear, we continue the fight in your names. Our thoughts and hearts are with their families and their communities.
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“Never forget that the freedom you have is BECAUSE of Black trans and non-binary people. Never forget that Stonewall was a riot against police brutality. Our history has always been intersectional, anti-capitalist and anti-racist.” ~Elisa Crespo
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Sylvia Rivera Law Project
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In honor of Miss Major, Sylvia Rivera, & Marsha P. Johnson, I will never forget that pride was born in a riot! -Lourdes @audrelorde #tdoa
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“People who don’t have access to a home will have to go to a shelter, or be on the streets. They say they’re calling a curfew. It’s a curfew against blackness.” ~ Olympia Perez, @BlackTransMedia
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Sylvia Rivera Law Project
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With rent almost due, we want to remind our communities evictions are NOT currently happening in New York City. Please spread the word so that TGNC people & our neighbors know their rights. If anyone is being evicted, they should call DOI's Bureau of City Marshals: (212) 825.5953
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Sylvia Rivera Law Project
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SRLP stands with @MaketheRoadNY in demanding that ICE immediately release our 25- year-old community member and trans sister, who has been detained since November 7. Please sign on to the call to #FreeYimy !
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“We need our elected officials to stand up for Black trans sex workers. We need to center Black trans sex workers’ livedexperiences.” ~TS Candii, Black Trans News LLC
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As we witness uprisings for Black liberation across the country, we are clear in the necessity to participate in building leader-full movements for trans liberation rooted in racial, social, and economic justice.
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Sylvia Rivera Law Project
7 years
Trump's Anti-Trans Action Affects Way More Than Bathroom Access
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Sylvia Rivera Law Project
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Trans & queer poc & youth take over plenary at #CC15 demanding end to police violence & solidarity w our communities http://t.co/dtZ4nRDwdq
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"Rivera wanted [queer and trans] activism to be more progressive, to include in their fight the rights of transgender individuals, including people of color, the homeless, and the incarcerated."
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“How are you using your body? How are you using your access? How are you creating space for Black TGNC people?” ~ Olympia Perez, @BlackTransMedia
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An opportunity for community to show up with @nonewjails_nyc at a crucial stage in resisting #NYC plan to build 4 new massive jails. We stand with #NoNewJailsNYC in knowing we can #CloseRikersNOW without building new jails & that the $11 billion plan should go to community.
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What To Do If You're Stopped By Police, Immigration Agents or the FBI via @aclu
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“I don’t want to change the system, I want to abolish the system. How dare you ~ to the people who have access who are standing by while we are being murdered. How dare you not say Black trans people when you are talking about Black people.” ~ Olympia Perez, @BlackTransMedia
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“We are also here to call out what they are doing to our sisters, the violence faced by Black trans women. So we are going to say her name! Nina Pop! Nina Pop! Nina Pop!” ~ @SRLP Director of Membership Sasha Alexander
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Sylvia Rivera Law Project
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What do you do when there is an ICE encounter at your home? Check out these Know Your Rights Materials @ImmDefense
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😍 this powerful image of Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P Johnson thriving in the face of carcerality. #TBT
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New York expands Medicaid coverage to transgender youths
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We're currently in the midst of the largest prisoner strike in US history. #AbolitonNOW
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Sylvia Rivera Law Project
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Sex work is work! Our comrades @decrimnow in DC are working to end the criminalization and stigma attached to the sex trades. We're building on their work with @DecrimNY to decriminalize and decarcerate the sex trades in New York city and state. #DecrimNY
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#WalkingWhileTrans “'disproportionately target[s] marginalized communities, in particular LGBTQ people (including runaway & homeless youth), women of color & immigrants.' Enforcement of the law has come to be particularly harmful for transgender NYers."
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“We are here to call out racism. We are here to call out transphobia. We are here to say his name! Tony McDade! Tony McDade! Tony McDade!” ~ @SRLP Director of Membership Sasha Alexander
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Sylvia Rivera Law Project
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Aimee Stephens fought courageously all the way to SCOTUS, even while fighting for her own health because of the discrimination she faced. May her memory inspire our fight against rampant employment discrimination faced by trans people, particularly trans women of color.
@ACLU
ACLU
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More than anything, this is what we hope you'll listen to today: Aimee Stephens' fight for trans rights, the moment she realized how many people were behind her in this fight, and why we should never give up, in her own words.
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“I’m talking about reclaiming Black liberation. I’m talking about defending ourselves against police violence, and misogyny, and anti-Blackness, and ableism. We are talking about how we protect ourselves against street harassment.” ~Prof.ound
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SRLP is responding to the urgent needs of our community during this unprecedented moment by establishing a micro-grants committee to address systemic barriers for the survival and self-determination of our community.
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“Often transgender migrants are criminalized for fleeing violence and seeking safety in a new country and place into an immigration system that further exposes us to mistreatment." #FreeAlejandra
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We stand with @nonewjails_nyc in demanding @NYCMayor #ShutDownRikers NOW without building new jails. #WeKeepUsSafe
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SRLP at rally for #RighttoKnowAct for police accountability!
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“We need hotel rooms now!” This morning, SRLP joined @pthny @SafetyNetUJC @VOCALNewYork @familiesfreedom in demanding @NYCMayor @BilldeBlasio immediately stop resisting the effort to house homeless New Yorkers in hotels and save lives. #HomelessCantStayHome
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THREAD Dear Beloved Community, We write with heavy hearts and deep care for all in our communities who are holding such immense grief while caring for each other.
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New Yorkers, can you make two calls today to help decriminalize #WalkingWhileTrans ? See thread from @DecrimNY for call script & info!
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Decrim NY #decrimNY
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(1/7) URGENT ACTION TODAY: help decriminalize #WalkingWhileTrans ! Call your Senators’ and Assembly Members’ Albany offices today. Urge them to co-sponsor S2253/A0654 to repeal the harmful “loitering for the purposes of prostitution” statute #DecrimNY
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Did you know NY is the only state in the nation to explicitly legislate a rape shield exemption for sex workers? If you’ve been convicted for sex work in the last 3 years, that can be used against you if you report rape. #DecrimNY to end violence against sex workers! @DecrimNY
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Providing access to resources is a critical step in creating safe, sustainable, and affirming housing, healthcare, and leadership development for TGNCI people of color and low-income TGNCI people.
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For those in #NYC , a great opportunity from two grassroots, abolitionist organizations we love! Thank you @nonewjails_nyc @survivepunishNY for creating this opportunity to correspond with our movement leaders who are currently incarcerated.
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No New Jails NYC
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We can’t wait to see many of you tomorrow evening (Thursday August 1, 6-8pm) @PeoplesForumNYC to write SO MANY letters of solidarity and support to our incarcerated loved ones, friends, and comrades.
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Congratulations to SRLP member Sheneeneh who was just granted her legal name change after years' worth of advocacy!
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4 Self-Care Resources for Days When the World is Terrible via @colorlines
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We must end the #WalkingWhileTrans ban! On Stonewall's 50th, many electeds are invoking Marsha P Johnson & Sylvia Rivera's names without real action to protect trans communities from state violence today cc: @NYGovCuomo @CarlHeastie @AndreaSCousins @SenGianaris @CPeoplesStokes
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80% of women in jails are mothers. Help us reunite them with their families this Mother’s Day #FreeBlackMamas
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“We are out here calling for justice. And justice for me will not be handed down by the police.” ~ Olympia Perez, @BlackTransMedia
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Our liberation tote bags are back! Add a little spice in your life on Valentine's Day by purchasing a tote bag now!
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A Radical Expansion of Sanctuary: Steps in Defiance of Trump's Executive Order via @truthout
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Here are some ways you could support trans and nonbinary people right now:
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Sylvia Rivera Law Project
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SRLP is seeking a staff attorney to join our collective as Director of Prisoner Justice. People of color, trans people, women, people with intersex conditions or DSDs, people who have lived in poverty, people with disabilities, immigrants, and LGBQ people encouraged to apply!
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Today, SRLP is thrilled to announce 4 new microgrants! We are responding to the urgent needs of our community during this unprecedented moment by establishing a micro-grants committee to address systemic barriers for survival and self-determination.
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Here are 26 ways to participate in the struggle beyond the streets
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Trans women tell GLAAD about their experiences in honor of Trans Day of Remembrance
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"Black trans women experience violence, trauma, and deep losses across our community every single day. We know what we need to survive, to thrive, and to create the world we’re all fighting for." ~ Janetta Johnson @tgijp
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Shoutout to the Trans Youth Project from San Diego for swinging by SRLP to learn about our work!
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We demand the decriminalization of #WalkingWhileTrans !
@DecrimNY
Decrim NY #decrimNY
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(6/7) #DecrimNY coalition member @SRLP 's client Paz* was arrested for #WalkingWhileTrans . She was jailed in a men's facility and then faced deportation proceedings
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Join our Movement Building Team members tomorrow night for a conversation about how TGNC people self advocate and navigate disability. The event will be live-streamed via our Facebook page starting at 6pm. ASL interpretation will be provided.
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We will not forget you, #LayleenPolanco 💔 @nonewjails_nyc is continuing to fundraise for trans women in #NYC jails, including @SRLP clients & community. Link in article. $upport if you can. #justice4layleen
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Sylvia Rivera Law Project
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Our free legal intake has re-opened and we are taking walk-ins every Thursday from 1-4pm.
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See you LIVE on Facebook in 15 minutes!
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Sylvia Rivera Law Project
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Join our Movement Building Team members tomorrow night for a conversation about how TGNC people self advocate and navigate disability. The event will be live-streamed via our Facebook page starting at 6pm. ASL interpretation will be provided.
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Check out the newest edition of our newsletter, In Solidarity, a publication by and for our members who are incarcerated.
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Sylvia Rivera Law Project
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Solitary is torture. We stand with @NYCAIC in demanding #HALTsolitary now. This is long overdue, and NY State can end this despicable practice now.
@NYCAIC
#HALTsolitary — Go to bit.ly/EndSolitaryNY
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We are outside @NYGovCuomo ’s fundraiser demanding he end the torture of solitary confinement. Thousands are in solitary in NY prisons—disproportionately Black & Latinx people—for months, years, even decades. A bill to end this torture has the votes to pass. Stop blocking it!
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Don’t Be Fooled by North Carolina. There Is No Repeal of The Anti-Trans HB2, Only More Discrimination @chasestrangio
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Sylvia Rivera Law Project
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Thank you for supporting our work in movements for trans liberation rooted in racial & economic justice! Today we are launching a #DHSIsAMess campaign calling on our allies to help us uplift the demands of TGNCI people of color living in @NYCDHS shelter system #DHSisamess 🚨
@graceelavery
Grace Lavery
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Lastly, the Sylvia Rivera Law Project provides free legal services to trans people of color, people with low incomes, and immigrants, to help members of our community secure their survival. Follow @SRLP and donate here:
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Black trans love is revolutionary! SRLP's Sasha Alexander and Olympia Perez speaks on NBC News http://t.co/YtFycLMNnY http://t.co/2Fv6wDFRRa
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Close Rikers Now with #NoNewJailsNYC
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No justice, no peace, no transphobic police! #TDOA15 #Trans http://t.co/WU86pqA4gj
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