Support Trans Safety in NYC Shelters
The Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) and Bronx Defenders are collaborating to create a visual resource for trans, gender-nonconforming, nonbinary, and intersex (TGNCNBI) people in NYC shelters. Although shelters have policies in place to protect TGNCNBI people from discrimination, many only find out about their rights after they’ve experienced transphobic harassment and violence, which often leads to their arrest.
This resource will explain how TGNCNBI people can navigate the shelter intake process, request to stay in a facility that is gender affirming, and get support if their rights are violated.
When you support this project, you’re:
- providing important information to TGNCNBI people so that they fully understand and can meaningfully advocate for their rights in shelters
- paying TGNCNBI people to be part of our collaborative design process to shape and influence the information, writing, and visual design of the project
- supporting the distribution of thousands of copies to advocacy groups like Audre Lorde Project, Legal Aid Society, Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem, Brooklyn Defenders, and New York County Defender Services to share with TGNCNBI communities
- ensuring the creation of more vital resources like this to support the well-being and power of marginalized communities in NYC
Everyone who donates will receive:
- a bundle of CUP's LGBTQ resources
- a shoutout on our Instagram for backing this project
- funder credit on the project page of our website
Donate today to support this project!
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The Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) is a design nonprofit dedicated to supporting social justice with creative civic education materials. Every year, we use our unique community engaged design model to provide free design services and educational programs to community organizations and schools working with marginalized communities to understand and influence the policies, services, and systems that make up New York City and impact them. To see our work visit our website.
The Bronx Defenders is a public defender nonprofit that is radically transforming how low-income people in the Bronx are represented in the justice system and, in doing so, is transforming the system itself. Bronx Defenders provides holistic defense and advocacy that centers each client's full personhood, circumstances, and needs—not just their court case—to make sure they get both the justice and the future they deserve. This project directly supports the Bronx Defenders LGBTQ Defense Project.
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