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In 2014, TJLP collective member Monica James went to Geneva, Switzerland and spoke with the UN Commission Against Torture about the criminalization of trans women of color
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In 2014, activist Monica Jones joined us to celebrate the release of Hidden Expressions v.2
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TJLP kicked off Summer 2014 by throwing a Prison Abolition Picnic as an alternative to Pride.
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In 2013, our legal team argued a clemency petition on behalf of a client serving a life sentence without possibility of parole.
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In 2012, TJLP celebrated the holidays by sending snowflakes to folks on the inside.
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In 2011, we celebrated the release of our trans prisoner 'zine Hidden Expressions, volume 1.
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The Transformative Justice Law Project of Ilinois is deeply committed to:
Prison Abolition | Transformative Justice | Gender Self-Determination
Legal Services
We provide free, zealous, life-affirming, and gender-affirming holistic criminal legal services to low-income and street based transgender and gender non-conforming people targeted by the criminal legal system.
Hidden Expressions
Hidden Expressions is an annual ‘zine publication created exclusively with the contributions, wisdom, and creativity of transgender and gender non-conforming people who have been or are currently incarcerated.
Name Change Mobilizations
Our goal is simple: we want to help as many people as possible legally change their names as part of our long-term goal of gender self-determination for all, free of government limitation.
Write to Win
Write to Win is a penpal project for transgender, transsexual, gender self-determining, and gender-variant people who are living and surviving inside Illinois prisons.
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