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Transgender Gendervariant Intersex Justice Project (TGIJP) collection
2018-36
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Title: Transgender Gendervariant Intersex Justice Project (TGIJP) collection
Dates: circa 2005-2016
Collection Number: 2018-36
Creator/Collector:
Extent: 2 linear feet (one medium oversized box)
Repository:
GLBT Historical Society
San Francisco, California 94103
Abstract: 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. The collection includes issues of the TGIJP newsletter,
Stiletto, as well as publications, pamphlets, zines, posters, clippings, and other ephemera.
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research.
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.
[Identification of item]. Transgender Gendervariant Intersex Justice Project (TGIJP) collection . Collection Number: 2018-36.
GLBT Historical Society
The collection was donated to the GLBT Historical Society by Woods Ervin in 2018.
Biography/Administrative History
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.
Scope and Content of Collection
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
Transgender people
Law
Law enforcement