Mission Statement: 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. The following blog post is from Ms. Rona Sugar Love, an SRLP Prisoner Advisory Committee member for over five years.

SRLP has lightly edited the post, with Ms. Love’s consent. The organization was formed in August 2002 by attorney and transgender civil rights activist, Dean Spade. The Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP) is a legal aid organization based in New York City at the Miss Major-Jay Toole Building for Social Justice that serves low-income or people of color who are transgender, intersex and/or gender non-conforming. How to Get Involved: The Sylvia Rivera Law Project has three main groups within the organization: the Survival and Self-Determination Project, …

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. Ms. Love is also a member of our Advisory Committee for our re-launch of It’s War in Here … By Sylvia Rivera Law Project on July 17, 2018 in Prisoner Rights Project, SRLP Prisoner Advisory Committee.

The Mission Statement: "The Sylvia Rivera Law Project works to guarantee that all people are free to self-determine gender identity and expression, regardless of income or race, and without facing harassment, discrimination or violence." As an organization that centers racial and economic justice in our work and that understands mass imprisonment as a primary vector of violence in the lives of our constituents, we believe that hate crimes legislation is a counterproductive response to the violence faced by LGBT people. The Sylvia Rivera Law Project does not see this as a victory.

The project has released this mission statement: The Sylvia Rivera Law Project 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.

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. The project was named for Sylvia Rivera, … Tweet.