We are Lavender Rights Project

Lavender Rights Project is a Black Trans feminist organization committed to dismantling oppressive systems that disproportionately harm Black communities. We believe that those most impacted by injustice are the architects of liberation, and we ground our work in their lived experiences, resilience, and leadership. Through policy and legal advocacy, movement lawyering, community organizing, and wraparound supportive housing, we build pathways to justice, empowerment, and systemic change.

Our Vision of Liberation & Leadership Council

Lavender Rights Project is creating a world in which the Black and Indigenous gender diverse communities are at the forefront of liberation and recognized for our power to build. By following their wisdom and nuanced understanding of community needs, we will build decolonized systems of care and support for our people.

Our staff leadership council, formerly known in the community as the WA State Black Trans Task Force, is an intersectional, multi-generational project of community building, research, and political action addressing the crisis of violence against Black trans women and femmes.

Since 2019, they have been providing financial, emotional, and strategic resources for Black trans women and femmes in order to broaden safety nets & increase avenues for justice. Made up of Black trans and non-binary staff members in the Puget Sound, our leadership council guides both the vision and the day-to-day operations of the organization as a whole. Their work is integrated into every key element of LRP. As a result, WA-BTTF is now, in essence, Lavender Rights Project.

We are 100% committed to by-and-for advocacy that provides life-saving legal and social services for Black gender diverse communities in Washington State and beyond.

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