Allies
TJLP works with many organizations in Chicago and throughout the U.S. in movements for prison abolition, self-determination, and transformative justice.
Locally, TJLP collaborates with our allies to reach trans and gender non-conforming people on the South, West, and North Sides of Chicago, in the collar counties, and in prisons throughout Illinois. For example, TJLP conducts trainings and provides legal services in some of our allies’ spaces. Our allies provide TJLP’s clients with advocacy, support, guidance, resources, and advice. We also collaborate with some of our allies on policy initiatives, planning events, and issuing public statements.
TJLP’s allies include:
- Access Living
- Action Committee for Women in Prison
- Advancement Project
- Affinity
- All of Us or None (Bay Area Chapter)
- Alternatives for Community and Environment
- American Friends Service Committee (Chicago Chapter)
- Assata’s Daughters
- Association for Conflict Resolution (Chicago Chapter)
- Association of Raza Educators
- Audre Lorde Project
- Brave Space Alliance
- Broadway Youth Center
- Cabrini Green Legal Aid
- California Coalition for Women Prisoners
- California Prison Focus
- Center for Transformative Change
- Certain Days (Canada)
- Chicago Freedom School
- Chicago Gender Society
- Community United Against Violence
- Critical Resistance National Office
- Drug Policy Alliance Network
- Education for Liberation Network
- Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
- FIERCE
- Generation 5
- Harm Reduction Coalition
- Howard Brown Health
- Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
- Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health
- Illinois Coalition for Justice, Peace, and the Environment
- Illinois Gender Advocates
- Imperial Windy City Court of the Prairie State Empire
- INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence
- Invisible to Invincible
- Lambda Legal
- Lambda Legal (Midwest Chapter)
- National Center for Transgender Equality
- National Clearinghouse for Defense of Battered Women
- National Immigrant Justice Center
- Northwestern Law: Children and Family Justice Law Center
- People’s Law Office
- Prison Activist Resource Center
- Prisoner Correspondence Project (Canada)
- Prisoners HIV/AIDS Support Action Network (Canada)
- Project NIA
- Real Cost of Prisons Project
- Right to the City Alliance
- Safe Horizon
- Sanctuary for Families
- Sex Workers Outreach Project
- Social Justice Sexuality Initiative
- Southerners on New Ground
- Southside Together Organizing for Power
- Southsiders Organizing for Unity and Liberation!
- Story Telling and Organizing Project
- Sylvia Rivera Law Project
- Teachers for Social Justice
- The Sentencing Project
- Trans Oral History Project
- Transgender Law and Policy Institute
- Transgender Law Center
- Transgender, Gender Variant, and Intersex Justice Project
- UCAN
- Uncommon Law
- Voices of Women Organizing Project
- Women’s Prison Association
- Youth Justice Coalition
- Youth Law Center