Transgender Gendervariant Intersex Justice Project (TGIJP) Collection, circa 2005-2016

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Title:: Transgender Gendervariant Intersex Justice Project (TGIJP) collection
Dates:: circa 2005-2016
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Extent:: 2.4 linear feet (one manuscript box and one medium oversized box)
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Preferred citation:: Transgender Gendervariant Intersex Justice Project (TGIJP) collection . GLBT Historical Society

Scope and content:: The collection includes issues of the TGIJP newsletter, Stiletto, as well as publications, pamphlets, zines, posters, clippings, and other ephemera. GSSO linked terms: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_000130; http://2Fpurl.obolibrary.org/obo/LifO_0000064; http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_008503
Biographical / historical:: The Transgender Gendervariant Intersex Justice Project (TGIJP) is an organization of transgender, gender-variant, and intersex people – most of them low-income transgender women of color who have been imprisoned or targeted by police – whose mission is to end transphobic human rights abuses in California prisons and jails. Formed primarily to provide legal services, it now focuses on peer advocacy and community-building as well. Miss Major Griffin-Gracy was its longtime executive director. This collection was assembled and donated by longtime employee Woods Ervin.
Acquisition information:: The collection was donated to the GLBT Historical Society by Woods Ervin in 2018.

Collection Guide Author:: Finding aid created by GLBT Historical Society staff.
Date Prepared:: circa 2005-2016
Date Encoded:: This finding aid was produced using Record Express for OAC5 on July 14, 2025, 2:55 p.m.

Access and use

Restrictions:: Collection is open for research.
Terms of access:: Copyright to material has not been transferred to the GLBT Historical Society. All requests for reproductions and/or permission to publish or quote from material must be submitted in writing to the GLBT Historical Society Archivist. Permission for reproductions and/or permission to publish or quote from material is given on behalf of the GLBT Historical Society as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.

Preferred citation:: Transgender Gendervariant Intersex Justice Project (TGIJP) collection . GLBT Historical Society

Location of this collection:: GLBT Historical Society

989 Market Street, Lower Level

San Francisco, CA 94103, US