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The Risk it Takes to Bloom

Raquel Willis

A passionate, powerful memoir by a trailblazing Black transgender activist, tracing her life of transformation and her work towards collective liberation. In 2017, Raquel Willis took to the National Women’s March podium just after the presidential...

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Opening Credits

1/26/2024
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Dedication

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Introduction

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Part I: Rooting

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1: Four Blue Walls

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2: My Interior World

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3: Revelations

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4: The Playground of Gender

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5: An Ill-fitting Frame

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6: Letter to My Father

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7: Death to Expectations

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8: Seen, Differently

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9: Chrysalis

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10: For Women Who Had a Boyhood

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Part II: Building

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11: Destiny’s Detour

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12: Plausible Deniability

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13: The Labyrinth of Desire

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14: Letter to Leelah Alcorn

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15: Awakening to Black Liberation

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16: Between Visibility and Vitality

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17: Slouching Toward Liberation

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18: Nobody’s Savior

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Part III: Pruning

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19: An Era of Reckoning

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20: Testing My Faith

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21: Letter to Chyna Gibson

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22: Womanhood, Expanded

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23: Girls’ Night Outing

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24: I Have a Right to Show My Color

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Part IV: Blooming

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25: A Peach in the Big Apple

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26: This Ain’t No Chick Flick

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27: Our Ancestors’ Wildest Nightmare

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28: Letter to Layleen Polanco

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29: Falling Pillars

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30: Revolution’s Knockin’

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Epilogue: Welcome to the Garden

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Acknowledgements

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Closing Credits

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