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  1. A Real Nightmare - Transgender Behind Bars

     
    Collection: Trans People and Prisons
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: T
    Date: Jun. 25, 2001
    Topics: Anti-LGBTQ+ violence, Fairies (Gay culture), Harassment, Homosexuals, Hormone therapy (Gender), LGBTQ+ discrimination, LGBTQ+ prisoners, Transphobia
    Description: Letter from a transgender inmate recounting her experience of harassment and difficulty navigating the California prison system through the narrative of an unlikely love-story.
  2. Clippings on Issues Facing the Incarcerated Transgender Community

     
    Collection: Trans People and Prisons
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Cozza, Scott
    Date: Dec. 9, 1996
    Topics: AIDS activists, AIDS education, Allies, Coming out, Gender-affirming surgery, HIV/AIDS, Hormones, LGBTQ+ discrimination, LGBTQ+ prisoners, Medicalization, Prostitution, Sexual assault, Stealth (Transgender), Transgender community, Transphobia
    Subject: American Educational Gender Information Service, Inc. (AEGIS), California Medical Facility (CMF), Cindy Chandler, Inprisonment Law Moderator, International Conference on Transgender Law & Employment Policy (ICTLEP), Jackie Thorne, Judy Greenspan, Laura Elizabeth Skaer, Loren Jones, Martine Aliana Rothblatt, Phyllis Randolph Frye, Scott Cozza, Sharon Ann Stuart
    Description: Correspondence between Scott Cozza and Judy Greenspan, with clipped articles covering various aspects of incarcerated transgender experiences.
  3. Email on Protest for Transgender Prisoner Rights

     
    Collection: Trans People and Prisons
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1997
    Topics: Deadnaming, Harassment, LGBTQ+ activists, LGBTQ+ demonstrations, LGBTQ+ prisoners, MtFs, Sexual assault, Transphobia, Transsexual people
    Subject: Crystal Marie Schwenk, Donald Merlyn Snook, Gary Locke, John Cambell, Looney Liberation Army, Nancy J Krier, Prison Activist Resource Center, Robert Mitchell, The Crystal Foundation
    Description: Mailing list entry from Prison Activist Resource Center on a planned protest for the rights of transgender people in prison, specifically focused on Crystal Schwenk and the development of her case.
  4. Fighting for the rights of transsexuals

     
    Collection: Trans People and Prisons
    Institution: Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections
    Creator: Farmer, Dee
    Date: Nov. 24, 1991
    Topics: Butches, FtMs, Gender-affirming surgery, Letters to the editor, LGBTQ+ prisoners, MtFs, Transphobia, Transsexual people, Wimmin, Women's music festivals, Womyn
    Subject: Gay Community News, Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, Nancy Burkholder, Sr. Mary Elizabeth
    Description: A letter to the editor responding to another letter regarding Nancy Burkholder's ejection from the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival. Farmer defends Burkholder's right to attend and also offers legal...
  5. Letter Offering Support and Guidance for Transgender Prison Health Care Reform

     
    Collection: Trans People and Prisons
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Nangeroni, Nancy
    Date: Nov. 18, 1997
    Topics: Anti-transgender discrimination, Anti-transgender violence, LGBTQ+ activists, LGBTQ+ imprisonment, LGBTQ+ prisoners, Police harassment of LGBTQ+ people, Police interactions with LGBTQ+ people, Prison reform, Transgender people, Transphobia
    Subject: GenderPAC, International Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE), Judy Greenspan, Scott Cozza
    Description: Letter from Nancy Nangeroni to Scott Cozza and Judy Greenspan, offering support and guidance in their work towards reform for trans people in prison. Nangeroni suggests conducting a survey of trans...
  6. "Trapped" in Sing Sing: Transgender Prisoners Caught in the Gender Binarism

     
    Collection: Trans People and Prisons
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Rosenblum, Darren
    Date: Sep. 19, 2002
    Topics: AIDS phobia, Anti-LGBTQ+ violence, Anti-transgender discrimination, Anti-transgender legislation, Anti-transgender violence, Attitudes of LGBTQ+ people toward police , Bathroom bans, BIPOC, Birth certificates, Castration, Cosmetics, Gender-affirming surgery, HIV/AIDS, Hormone therapy (Gender), Identification of LGBTQ+ people by police, LGBTQ+ imprisonment, LGBTQ+ personal and family law, LGBTQ+ prisoners, LGBTQ+ sexual abuse, MtFs, Police harassment of LGBTQ+ people, Post-operative, Prison reform, Prison violence, Queer transgender people, Transgender people, Transgender people of color, Transgender victims of rape, Transgender victims of sexual abuse, Transphobia
    Subject: Dee Farmer
    Description: An article about the mistreatment of trans people in prison, the barriers they face, and the law and terms surrounding it. Throughout the article, the author uses the metaphor of the miner and the ...
  7. TRIP Journal Vol. 1, No. 1

     
    Collection: Trans People and Prisons
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Shafer, Jessie
    Date: Winter 2000
    Topics: FtMs, Hormone therapy (Gender), LGBTQ+ activism, LGBTQ+ communities, LGBTQ+ persecutions, LGBTQ+ prisoners, MtFs, Pre-operative, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia, Transsexual people
    Subject: Colorado Gold Rush, Dee Farmer, TRIP Journal
    Description: Trip Journal Vol. 1, No. 1 discusses prison reform through a queer lens. Topics include transphobia, queer discrimination, transitioning, and the activism that surrounds these topics. Coverage cent...