Trans collective gets grant for prison work


by Jen Colletta | 2 days 3 hrs ago | Retrieved from the Internet on September 1, 2012 by SJ


http://www.epgn.com/view/full_story/19976674/article-Trans-collective-gets-grant-for-prison-work-


A Philadelphia group that unites transgender and gender-variant people living both inside and outside of prison walls got a vote of confidence — and a financial boost — from a local social-justice agency.

Bread & Roses Community Fund awarded Hearts on a Wire Collective a $2,000 grant as part of its Phoebus Criminal Justice Initiative, a donor-advised fund launched in 2000 that also awarded grants to 11 other area groups working on criminal-justice causes.

Hearts on a Wire was founded in 2007, when a group of trans and gender-variant people came together to send Valentine's Day cards to T/GV people who were in prisons. From that initial gathering, a conversation was sparked about the issues facing T/GV populations both during and after incarceration.