LAVENDER RIGHTS PROJECT
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Mission Statement
Lavender Rights Project elevates the power, autonomy, and leadership of the Black intersex & gender diverse community through intersectional legal and social services. We utilize the law as an organizing principle to affirm our civil rights and self-determination. Our organization disrupts oppressive systems that target Black gender diverse and intersex communities of color and lead to disproportionate levels of poverty, housing disparities, and gender-based violence, especially among Black and Indigenous people.
About This Cause
Lavender Rights Project (LRP) elevates the power, autonomy, and leadership of the Black trans and gender diverse (TGD) community through intersectional legal, housing, and social services. Our organization disrupts oppressive systems that target Black TGD and communities of color and lead to disproportionate levels of poverty, housing disparities, and gender-based violence, especially among Black and Indigenous people. Our most well known program, Washington State Black Trans Task Force (WA BTTF), is an intersectional, multi-generational project of community building, research, and political action addressing the crisis of violence against Black trans women and femmes. While LRP’s work is multi-faceted and branched into different liberation movements through the state, our three main program areas are: • Legal services: One branch of disrupting systemic violence is by providing low to no-barrier access to TGD competent legal services. Our legal services team understands first-hand the problems faced by community members who challenge heteronormativity and cissexism—barriers typically only exacerbated when seeking and receiving legal services. We offer representation, education, and ongoing workshops throughout the calendar year, both online and in-person (when it is safe to do so). • Community-Led Advocacy and Direct Services by-and-for Black TGD: LRP provides life-saving direct support and advocacy for Black TGD people across King County in order to broaden safety nets and increase avenues for justice that are typically only available for white TGD people. Since the onset of the COVID pandemic, we have given out $130,000 to our community for bill and rent assistance, food, housing, mental health services, and medical support. Our rental assistance program continues to this day, providing our Black TGD community with a much needed reprieve from the continuing economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic. • Housing: LRP disrupts systemic violence by providing access to housing to Black TGD communities through direct service funds (above) and our upcoming housing initiative in Seattle. In collaboration with government officials, community leaders of color, and BTTF staff, we are co-creating a housing facility intended to serve 40 Black TGD individuals year round with single occupancy rooms, private restrooms, fresh food, and wraparound services designed by and for the needs of the residents. LRP is accountable to the communities most impacted by the carceral state because we are literally led by those who are significantly harmed by actions of police, incarceration, and judicial violence. Our board and senior leadership is 85% comprised of BIPOC who identify as queer or TGD, and our executive and deputy director are Black gender diverse people with significant personal experience surviving systemic oppression while co-building community liberation.