Media & Press
Selected interviews, profiles, and coverage featuring Raquel Willis across print, broadcast, and digital media.
Featured Profiles & Covers
Recent cover stories and long-form interviews.
Atmos: The Fruits We Bear—An Ode to Trans Life—Then, now, always
Featured among trans leaders, artists, and organizers; contributor of both the cover story and an original poem reflecting on trans futurity and collective care. → Read it
Everything is Political #7: Trans Liberation is Collective Liberation
An interview on power, movement strategy, and how culture shapes political possibility. → Read it
GAYTIMES: Raquel Willis on life, liberation, ego death
A wide-ranging conversation on memoir, ego death, vulnerability, and the politics of self-authorship in public life. → Read it
Featured In
In-depth conversations on gender, power, culture, and public narrative.
Major Profiles & Interviews
Photography by
Justin J. Wee
& Richie Shazam
TIME
TIME100: The 100 Most Influential People of 2025 → Read it
TIME Women of the Year — “Raquel Willis’s Fearless Fight for Bodily Autonomy” → Read it
The Cut
Raquel Willis on Writing, Power, and The Risk It Takes to Bloom
A literary and political interview on memoir, legacy, and visibility. → Read it
How I Get It Done
A personal-professional profile examining labor, discipline, and creative process. → Read it
Mother Jones — Why Democrats Are Failing Trans Communities: A political interview analyzing electoral strategy, abandonment, and resistance. → Read it
InStyle — Get Ready With Raquel Willis: A cultural profile exploring ritual, beauty, and trans self-fashioning as power. → Read it
GQ — The Future Sounds Like Raquel Willis → Read it
Out — The Undeniably Radical Impact of Raquel Willis → Read it
Allure — My Beauty Ritual
An essay-interview on embodiment, care, and beauty as survival practice. → Read it
CERO Magazine — On Writing The Risk It Takes to Bloom
A long-form literary conversation on craft, movement memory, and personal archive. → Read it
News & Movement Coverage
Photography by Cole Witter
Television & Video
Willis has appeared on national television and digital platforms discussing culture, politics, and gender liberation.
Trans Youth Town Hall (Logo)
A nationally broadcast forum hosted and executive-produced by Raquel Willis, amplifying transgender youth voices and policy dialogue. It was honored with a Gold distinction in the Shorty Impact Awards.
Podcasts & Audio
Raquel is a founding executive producer of OutSpoken, iHeartMedia’s first LGBTQ+ podcast network. This landmark platform is dedicated to amplifying diverse queer voices and stories in long-form audio.
Afterlives — Host & Executive Producer
Gold Signal Award–winning podcast series exploring legacy, memory, and Black queer history. → Listen here
Queer Chronicles — Host
Conversations on identity, culture, and collective imagination. → Listen here
Reckoning with Raquel Willis — Host
Dissections of culture, media, and politics through a Black, trans, queer, and feminist lens. → Listen here
Media Inquiries
For media, publicity, and interview requests, please contact:
The Katz Company at mgmt@raquelwillis.com