705 S. RAMPART ST.
LOS ANGELES, CA 90057
(213) 382-4207 info@imprentala.org
A Forum on Transgender Community - Police Interaction
June 20, 1 - 4 p.m.
What are your experiences with law enforcement agencies in Los Angeles? COME OUT AND TELL US YOUR STORY. This is the community’s chance to provide valuable input and help formulate Trans-positive policy recommendations.
LA City College Faculty & Staff Room
855 N. Vermont Ave.
Los Angeles, California 90029
Metro Red Line Accessible
Organized by the LA City Human Relations Commission's Transgender Working Group. For more information, contact Karina Samala at karinala@aol.com or (213) 999-0456
ITLP's Misson
The Imprenta Transgender Law Project (ITLP) is a free monthly legal clinic dedicated to serving low-income transgender, intersex, and gender non-conforming people, with a focus on immigrants and people of color. ITLP works to provide legal services, referrals, education, and advocacy to our communities in order to nourish and empower social justice movements.
ITLP was founded in January 2009 out of the need for an initiative that directly addresses transgender communities in Los Angeles. ITLP is a collaboration between IMPRENTA, UCLA School of Law, and Southwestern Law School. Our goal is to create a center that connects pre-existing trans-friendly services, and develops a platform where free, quality, respectful, and affirming services for low-income transgender, intersex, and gender non-conforming people are an explicit priority. We are inspired by the conceptual framework of Sylvia Rivera Law Project that uses the law as a tool for building broader social justice initiatives. We share in the belief that the right to self determine gender identity and expression and to be free from violence is only one facet of a multi-issue movement for justice and self-determination of all people.
IMPRENTA is a space organized by Michelle Dizon, Camilo Ontiveros, Wu Ingrid Tsang, and Nicolau Vergeiro. Located in the MacArthur Park area of Los Angeles and housed in a former printshop next door to the Silver Platter, Imprenta functions as a platform for projects, workshops, discussions, and screenings; an HIV and legal clinic for trans communities; and a quarterly publication.