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

InStyleGet 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

AllureMy Beauty Ritual
An essay-interview on embodiment, care, and beauty as survival practice. → Read it

CERO MagazineOn Writing The Risk It Takes to Bloom
A long-form literary conversation on craft, movement memory, and personal archive. → Read it

News & Movement Coverage

The New York Times

  • Brooklyn Liberation March Draws Thousands for Black Trans Lives (2020) → Read it

  • Black Trans Lives Matter (2020)→ Read it

  • Black Trans Lives March During Pride (2021)→ Read it

  • Trump Executive Orders and the Future of Trans Rights (2025) → Read it

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