LRP Herstory
In 2019, this program was created in order to help end the crisis of violence against Black Trans gender diverse populations in the state of Washington through community action and research. This program now makes up the leadership council of LRP.
What is the WA Black Trans Task Force (BTTF)
The term “intersectionality” was coined by this woman in 1989 to describe how race, class, gender, and other individual characteristics “intersect” with one another and overlap in cases involving Black women. In recent years, it seems like EVERYBODY got something to add to this definition.
Who is Kimberlé Crenshaw?
Following the 1969 Stonewall Riots, Sylvia Rivera and this woman founded Street Activist Transvestite Revolutionaries (STAR), after seeing the needs of street youth and transgender youth weren’t being taken into consideration by other LGBTQ groups.
Who is Marsha P. Johnson?
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is the face of the Civil Rights Movement, but it was this man, his chief advisor and mentor, who organized the entire March on Washington and was the lead force behind peaceful protests. He’s often looked over because he was gay.
Who is Bayard Rustin?
BTAC
What is the Black Trans Advocacy Coalition?
BTAC consists of a national advocacy center and affiliate state chapters. They work daily to end poverty, health inequity, and racist housing and employment systems to improve the lived experience of transgender people. Our work is based in peace building, community education, public policy initiatives, empowerment programs and direct services.
LRP is a very young organization. If it were in Kindergarten, this would make it _____
What is 5 years old?
In 2006 this woman, as someone who experienced sexual assault, formed the Me Too/#metoo movement in order to help women and girls — particularly women and girls of color — who had also survived sexual violence.
Who is Tarana Burke?
In 2005 this woman joined the San Francisco-based Trans Gender Variant and Intersex Justice Project (TGIJP) as a staff organizer, and later as Executive Director, to lead the group’s efforts advocating for incarcerated Trans women.
Who is Miss Major Griffin-Gracy?
She is the founder of Jewel Box Revue, the first racially integrated drag touring company where she was the only drag king for 14 years.
Who is Storme DeLarverie?
BTTF
(but not the one in Washington)
What is the Black Trans Travel Fund?
Trans women of color often face extreme danger while traveling. This fund provides alternative methods of travel that are deemed safer for this community.
These areas of impact were crafted at LRP’s first in-person staff retreat during the pandemic. They now help guide and ground all of the legal and social work so that we stay on mission.
What is Poverty Law, Housing, and Gender-based Violence?
AKA - Economic Justice, Housing Justice, Trans gender-based violence prevention
Praise her name! “Coal” (1976), “The Black Unicorn” (1978), “The Cancer Journals” (1980), and “Zami: A New Spelling of My Name” are just a few of this lesbian prophet's most notable works.
Who is Audre Lorde?
She is the “Mother of Ballroom”, establishing the first Legendary house after facing discrimination in the New York pageant ball scene. You had to watch out for this Queen because she came with the quick comebacks.
Who is Crystal LaBeija?
Living openly as a Black Trans woman in the late 1800’s was a trip. This woman managed to marry two men in her lifetime but had to fight for them to be accepted as legal, making her one of the first to fight for marriage and transgender equality.
Who is Lucy Hicks Anderson?
MPJI
What is the Marsha P. Johnson Institute?
The Marsha P. Johnson Institute (MPJI) protects and defends the human rights of BLACK transgender people. We do this by organizing, advocating, creating an intentional community to heal, developing transformative leadership, and promoting our collective power.
LRP considers these organizations “siblings” or “sisters” as they all have housing initiatives of their own and/or direct services specific to the most vulnerable and marginalized.
Who are: Chief Seattle Club, Trans Women of Color Solidarity Network, Queer The Land & UTOPIA Washington?
This American prison activist, writer/singer briefly ran for the Green Party presidential nomination in 2008. She also served as the Minister of Information and Chairman of the Black Panther Party.
Who is Elaine Brown?
She may not be the lawyer/housewife played by Phylicia Rashad, but she’s a badass artist, writer, performer, DJ, and co-founder of the New York-based nightlife project Shock Value.
Who is Juliana Huxtable?
This “Electric Lady” is a singer, rapper, and actress. She played Mary Jackson, a mathematician and aerospace engineer, in the movie ‘Hidden Figures’ alongside Taraji P. Henson and Octavia Spencer.
Who is Janelle Monae?
TOP
What is The Okra Project?
Collective that seeks to address the global crisis faced by Black Trans people by bringing home-cooked meals and resources to the community.
Out of the following services, which one is no longer offered by LRP's legal team: Family law, name changes, employment disputes, immigration, incarceration, “Fee for Service”, pro bono.
What is Immigration Status?
She was a leader in the New York chapter of Daughters of Bilitis, the first lesbian civil and political rights organization in the United States.
Who is Ernestine Eckstein?
This bold beauty describes herself as Seattle’s Premiere TransFabulous, Femtastic, Draglesquing, Sass-mouthing Negro.
Who is The Lady B?
During a time when Black ballet dancers were not allowed to grace the stage, this gay man performed with the Arthur Mitchell’s Dance Theatre of Harlem, one of the first premiere classical ballet companies for Black dancers. He later relocated to WA state where he would teach at Evergreen College and created the Tacoma Urban Performing Arts Center (TUPAC). He unfortunately did not get to see the grand opening before his untimely death.
Who is Kabby Mitchell?
NBJC
What is the National Black Justice Coalition?
A civil rights organization dedicated to the empowerment of Black LGBTQ and same-gender loving (SGL) people, including people living with HIV/AIDS. As America’s leading national Black LGBTQ/SGL civil rights organization focused on federal public policy, NBJC has accepted the charge to lead Black families in strengthening the bonds and bridging the gaps between the movements for racial justice and LGBTQ/SGL equality.