![Black Trans Lives Matter Advocacy.](https://mapped.imgix.net/images/Life-Is-Work/Lifeiswork00.png?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=max&q=80&w=500)
Life is Work is a Black trans-led social service and advocacy organization created to support and empower trans persons of color through direct services, activism, and advocacy. Life is Work is dedicated to empowering communities through educational programming, health testing, mental health services and more.
Life Is Work is the first Black and brown trans-led social services organization in the Midwest.
![Life is Work network.](https://mapped.imgix.net/images/Life-Is-Work/Lifeiswork01.png?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=max&q=80&w=500)
![Life is Work members tabling.](https://mapped.imgix.net/images/Life-Is-Work/life-is-work-6.png?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=max&q=80&w=500)
![Zahara Bassett, advocates for transgender people and the LGBTQIA community at a rally.](https://mapped.imgix.net/images/Life-Is-Work/LIFE-IS-WORK-05.png?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=max&q=80&w=500)
![Zahara Bassett the CEO and founder of Life Is Work.](https://mapped.imgix.net/images/Life-Is-Work/LIFE-IS-WORK-07.png?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=max&q=80&w=500)