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  1. "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 ...
  2. 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...
  3. Update to AIDS Advocacy Groups on Transgender Healthcare at CMF

     
    Collection: Trans People and Prisons
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Greenspan, Judy
    Date: Jul. 26, 1996
    Topics: AIDS activists, HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ+ prisoners, LGBTQ+ support groups, Transgender people
    Subject: California Medical Facility (CMF), Catholic Charities Prison HIV Pro, Joseph Bick, Ken Topper, Laurie McBride, Rand Martin, Robert Rios, Scott Cozza, Sheila Enders
    Description: Update by Judy Greenspan to multiple AIDS advocacy organizations on the state of Scott Cozza's work in the California Medical Facility, urging them to discuss the limiting of access to resources in...
  4. Warden at Vacaville Prison Holds Historic Meeting with Bay Area Transgender Prisoner Advocates

     
    Collection: Trans People and Prisons
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator:
    Date: May 1, 1998
    Topics: Health care for LGBTQ+ people, Hormones, LGBTQ+ imprisonment, LGBTQ+ prisoners, Police interactions with LGBTQ+ people, Transgender political activists
    Subject: California Department of Corrections, California Medical Facility (CMF)
    Description: Press release for the Ad Hoc Committee on Prison Health Care Reform on a meeting with Warden Ana Ramirez Palmer to discuss the lack of services and care for transgender inmates within CMF-Vacaville.
  5. Who Is There for Me?

     
    Collection: Trans People and Prisons
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Farmer, Dee
    Date: Aug. 8, 1992
    Topics: BIPOC, Black transgender people, Lesbian authors, Lesbian fiction, Lesbian survivors of rape, Lesbianism, Lesbians, LGBTQ+ domestic violence, LGBTQ+ fiction, LGBTQ+ people of color, LGBTQ+ prisoners, LGBTQ+ victims of rape
    Subject: Dee Farmer, Judy Greenspan
    Description: This item contains potentially sensitive content related to sexual assault and domestic violence. Dee Farmer's fictional story about a lonely lesbian seeking refuge in religion. Attached at the end...