Digital Transgender Archive
Raquel Willis is a Black trans woman from Augusta, Georgia. At the time of this interview Willis was living in Oakland, CA. She is a writer, activist, and media maker, and, starting in 2018, the Executive Editor of Out Magazine. Prior to her work at Out magazine, Willis received a Soros Equity Fellowship to start the Black Trans Circles at the Transgender Law Center, where she was a national organizer. In this oral history, Willis describes she describes her childhood, relationships with family, religion, dating experiences, and complex relationships to issues of passing and sexuality. In addition, she discusses her work as a activist and media maker, including her work as the host of the podcast Black Girl Dangerous, as well as her vision for LGBT movements that celebrate and centralize the leadership of Black trans women.
Item Actions
- Identifier
- tm70mv419
- Collection
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Oral Histories with People of Color
- Institution
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Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
- Creator(s)
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Willis, Raquel
- Contributor(s)
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Jenkins, Andrea
- Publisher
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University of Minnesota Minneapolis Libraries
- Date Created
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Jun. 7, 2017
- Genre
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Oral Histories
Transcriptions
- Subject(s)
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Black Girl Dangerous
RuPaul
Trans Advocacy Organization
Transgender Law Center
Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
- Places
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California
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Alameda County
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Oakland
Georgia > Richmond County > Augusta
Georgia > Morgan > Madison
South
West Coast
- Topic(s)
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Activists
Art
Assigned gender
Black LGBTQ+ people
Black people
Coming out
Counseling
Dating
Drag
Drag kings
Family members
Family relationships
Femininities
Feminism
FtMs
Gay identity
Gender dysphoria
Gender identity
Gender role
Homophobia
Hormone therapy
LGBTQ+ activism
Love
Masculinities
MtFs
Passing (Gender)
Queer people
Race
Religions
Religious texts
Role behavior
Sex
Sexism
Social movements
Southern States
Sports
Trans women
Transgender people
Transitioning (Gender)
Transphobia
Writers
- Resource Type
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Moving image
Text
- Language
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English
- Related URL
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https://umedia.lib.umn.edu/
- Rights
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In copyright
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