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Interview with Raquel Willis

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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.

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