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The risk it takes to bloom : on life and liberation / Raquel Willis.

by Willis, Raquel, author.

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New York : St. Martin's Press, 2023.

Willis, Raquel.

Transgender women -- United States -- Biography.

African American transgender people -- Biography.

Transgender people -- Civil rights -- United States.

Gay rights -- United States.

Civil rights -- United States.

9781250275684 (hardcover) :

1250275687 (hardcover) :

xvii, 363 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm

"Born in Augusta, Georgia, to Black Catholic parents, Raquel spent years feeling isolated, even within a loving, close-knit family. There was little access to understanding what it meant to be queer and transgender. It wasn't until she went to the University of Georgia that she found the LGBTQ+ community, fell in love, and explored her gender for the first time. But the unexpected death of her father forced her to examine her relationship with herself and those she loved. These years of grief, misunderstanding, and hard-won epiphanies seeped into the soil of her life, serving as fertilizer for growth and allowing her to bloom within. Upon graduation, Raquel entered a career in journalism against the backdrop of the burgeoning Movement for Black Lives, intersectional feminism going mainstream, and unprecedented visibility of the trans community. After hiding her identity as a newspaper reporter, her increasing awareness of the epidemic of violence plaguing trans women of color and the heightened suicide of trans teens inspired her to come out publicly. Within just a few short years of community organizing in Atlanta, Oakland, and New York, Raquel emerged as one of the most formidable Black trans activists in history."-- Provided by publisher.

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