Free Legal Services for Black and Indigenous Communities

Lavender Rights Project proudly offers FREE affirming, supportive legal services for Black and Indigenous communities in Washington State, with a focus on uplifting Black trans women and femmes.

Our new legal services include free direct representation, consultations, and legal clinics for issues related to civil law and more.

Call for legal support:
(253) 325-1416

Or click her to submit a legal request

Our Programs

Free Legal Advice Consultations — Black and indigenous community members can call us with any legal issue, and our team is here to support you. We offer free legal advice on LGBTQ+ and race discrimination issues, referrals, expungements, and navigation around former convictions and current incarceration issues including legal financial obligations, identification, gender identity documents, hearing support, and more. Our team prioritize Black trans femmes, but we serve the entire Black community.

Issue-Based Legal Clinics — Beginning Fall 2023, we will be hosting regular legal clinics on urgent issues facing Black & indigenous trans communities, including matters related to decriminalization. There will be food, community building, workshops, and a chance to connect with attorneys who are experts in their field. It’s a different model designed to empower our communities. Our first clinics will be focused on arrest support and warrant quashing, and there will be a virtual/zoom option for those who can’t attend in-person.

Direct Legal Representation — We offer Direct Legal Representation for Black and Indigenous community members in areas such as expungements, legal financial obligations, consequences of arrests, pre-detention trial, bail issues,  and more. We utilize a Movement Lawyering Model which understands the ways the legal system produces harm, thus we seek to build collective power to transform such systems while empowering our clients to be their own advocates. 

How To Request Legal Support

The first step receiving legal services is by filling out an intake form. There are two ways to do this. You can fill out the form on-line by simply clicking here, or you may contact our paralegals on the phone at 253-325-1416.

If you have any questions about legal services, please email us at intakes@lavrights.org. We’d love to hear from you!

If you are experiencing an active arrest or emergency situation, please email our lead attorney at ikal@lavrights.org in order to receive urgent support.

 Our Values

Our all-BIPOC trans legal team is now accepting new clients and committed to:

• Abolitionism

• Harm reduction and trauma informed care

• Client-centered decision making

• Collective care and mutual aid

• Community and Movement based lawyering

• Self-determination

• Political education

• Black Trans Femme liberation

We believe legal systems are fundamentally racist and designed to incarcerate and discriminate against Black communities. Our goal is to disrupt this harm through fierce legal advocacy and affirming, supportive services every step of the way in the legal process.