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 | ![]() | | Photo: Ben Fractenberg/THE CITY | | | | In December 2021, as Christmas was approaching, a trio of trans women decided to bring some holiday cheer to their dorm at the Rose M. Singer Center, a jail complex on the northern edge of Rikers Island. They were going to have a ball. The stage was nothing special, a small beige floor in front of rows of cold metal benches in the dorm's common area. But the room had good light. From one window where the sun crept in, the women could look out and watch the planes soaring in and out of La Guardia. | | On the day of the performance, Venus, a Latina with bleached-blonde hair, was clearly the star. She draped a jail blanket across her legs to serve as a skirt and knotted her white facility T-shirt into a crop top. In one hand, she shook a pink streamer. Somehow, she'd even found glitter. Her turn at the Christmas ball at Rikers was made possible by a recent, unlikely ally for incarcerated trans women in New York City: the Department of Correction's own LGBTQ+ Affairs Unit. It was employees of that team, never more than a handful of policy experts and social workers, who had helped make the Pride posters and organize the show. | | | Continue reading » | | Want more on city life, real estate, and design? Subscribe now for unlimited access to Curbed and everything New York. | | | |
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