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Raquel Willis

(She/Her)
Brooklyn
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Covers:  Activism, social justice, LGBTQ+, race, gender, feminism, nonprofits, media
✦ co-founder, @genderlib4all ✦ activist ✦ media strategist

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Raquel Willis is an award-winning activist, journalist, and media strategist dedicated to collective liberation, especially for Black trans folks. She is an executive producer with iHeartMedia’s first-ever LGBTQ+ podcast network, Outspoken, and the host of Afterlives, a podcast centering the lives and legacies of trans folks lost too soon to violence. She is also the author of The Risk It Takes to Bloom: On Life and Liberation.

Raquel has held groundbreaking posts, including director of commun…

Raquel Willis’s Journalist Portfolio

Geena Rocero Is Writing Her Truth

Geena Rocero Is Writing Her Truth

With her groundbreaking 2023 memoir, Horse Barbie, Rocero recounted her rise from pageant queen in the Philip…

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Introducing the Out100 Trans Obituaries Project

Introducing the Out100 Trans Obituaries Project

A special portion of this year's Out100 details the remarkable story of Layleen Cubilette-Polanco, 20+ lives …

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Trans Youth Town Hall 2022 | Logo TV US

Trans Youth Town Hall 2022 | Logo TV US

Journalist and activist Raquel Willis moderates a town hall discussion featuring a diverse collection of voic…

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TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates

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By Raquel Willis, Alice Park Verified, Belinda Luscombe Verified
| TIME Verified
by Edward Felsenthal and Sam Jacobs
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Trans activists arrested outside HHS headquarters in D.C.

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By Raquel Willis
| meaws.com
Authorities on Tuesday arrested 24 activists outside the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services headquarters in D.C. The Gender Liberation Movement, a national organization that uses direct action, media engagement, and policy advocacy to defend bodily autonomy and self-determination, organized the protest in which more than 50 activists participated.
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Marsha P. Johnson Taught Us How to Defy This Anti-Trans Wave

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By Raquel Willis
| TIME Verified
It’s Pride Month again. But unlike recent years, when corporations flooded us with rainbow merchandise and vague nods to the Stonewall Riots, this year feels markedly different. The signs of authoritarianism are everywhere—anti-trans executive actions and legislation, Democrats scapegoating the trans community for its political failures, and corporate backpedaling on LGBTQ+ support.
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