TGI Justice Project
@tgijp
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Fighting for justice for trans, gender variant & intersex people in California prisons, jails, detention centers and beyond.
San Francisco, CA
Joined March 2009
SF’s own Stonewall happened at Compton’s Coalition in 1966. Now the Compton’s Coalition wants the city to stop hosting a Geo Group jail at 111 Taylor in the Tenderloin, the site where the uprising took place. #queerhistory #comptonscafeteriariot #stonewallriots #sfqueerhistory
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Organizations like @tgijp and @TransLawCenter are leading the way by providing vital resources like legal support, reentry toolkits, know-your-rights guides, and socio-economic opportunities. But the work doesn't stop there… you can help too‼️ (4/7)
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Our staff just left court support in Alameda County for a Black trans man who is currently in custody. He is having a difficult time in Santa Rita Jail facing discrimination from the sheriffs. We’ll be back for court support next week.
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Prop. 36 would lock more people up—and undermine proven solutions that break the cycle of crime and incarceration.
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Prop. 36 would lock more people up—and undermine proven solutions that break the cycle of crime and incarceration.
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📣 Mark your calendars for CURB’s #CloseCAPrisons Campaign Update & Call to Action! 🗓 Tuesday, October 22nd ⏰ 6:30-7:30pm PST 📍Zoom (RSVP here 📲 https://t.co/AzL2AYJsbz to receive a zoom link) 🌱The Close California Prisons Campaign, anchored by CURB, is a growing coalition
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Hurricane headed directly for Flordia -- where Coleman Federal Bureau of Prisons is located the surrounding public has been advised to evacuate. EVERYONE BUT THE DAMN PRISON POPULATION #burntheprisons
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She graduated re-entry program 8/24 now our Re-Entry Case Mgr. Her focus is bringing our TGI family home from prisons & other locked facilities, nurturing opportunities for women who have had her experience, and introducing them to healing, life-affirming, & sustaining resources.
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Upon her release in April 2024, she was hired with Miss Major Alexander L. Lee TGIJP Black Trans Cultural Center’s Melanie Eleneke Socio-Economic Justice Re-Entry Program.
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During her time surviving the PIC on the inside, she became the voice for many incarcerated trans women by remaining on the front lines of a war against the PIC that she continues to fight present day through her work with our Abolitionist Black Trans Queer Feminist organization
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She participated in the Alternatives to Violence Program (AVP) and after two years of completing the program became a facilitator for workshops.
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While incarcerated, she provided support to her peers by becoming an active member of the “Inmate Advisory Council”, where she advocated for rehabilitative programming on behalf of the incarcerated transgender, gender variant, and intersex (TGI) community.
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D’Andrea is a Black woman from Los Angeles, CA who has experienced the prison industrial complex (PIC) from juvenile facilities to prison.
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We are excited for our re-entry case manager D’Andrea to get on the panel and share her story with you all for @blkwomenradical Part Two: Is There (Really) A Black Feminist Movement? On Diasporic Black Trans Politics, Praxes, and Perspectives https://t.co/O0c9OYVKY7
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Miss Major Alexander L. Lee TGIJP Black Trans Cultural Center’s Melenie Eleneke Socio-Economic Re-Entry Program has helped FIVE transgender women get free from jail over the past month. Four of those women are Black. Decarceration Now! #FreeThemAll #BlackAugust
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It saddens us that there are organizations led by transgender people supposedly to serve TGI communities, yet are fascinated with being legitimized by the same institutions that facilitate our oppression.
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