Transgender Gendervariant Intersex Justice Project (TGIJP) collection
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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.
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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