Books

• The Risk It Takes to Bloom: On Life and Liberation

Projects

• The Trans Obituaries Project — Out

• Mothers & Daughters of the LGBTQ+ Movement, Out

Selected Essays

• “The Fruits We Bear — Portraits of Trans Liberation” — Atmos

• Legacy of the Civil Rights Act, Atlanta Magazine

• “Reckoning: No Bodily Autonomy Without Gender Liberation” — YES! Magazine

• “Dear Trans Kids, You Don't Need the Government's Permission to Exist” — Teen Vogue

• “Marsha P. Johnson Taught Us How To Defy This Anti-Trans Wave” — TIME

• “Pride: Grateful to Have an Origin Family That’s Grown Along With Me” — Essence

• “The Vegas Fling That Changed The Way I Think About Love” — Cosmopolitan

• “What Is Trans Liberation?” — them.

• “Welcome to the Age of Trans Political Power” — them.

• “Black Trans Women Are Solving the Epidemic of Violence — Support Us” — Essence

• “The Plastic Feminist: On Silicone, Saline, and Loving the Self” — BuzzFeed

• “How Sylvia Rivera Created the Blueprint for Transgender Organizing” — Out

• A History of the Rise of Anti-Trans Legislation in the United States, Rewire News

Anthologies + Collections

• Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619–2019

  Editors: Dr. Ibram X. Kendi & Dr. Keisha N. Blain

  Get It Here +

• Black Futures

  Editors: Kimberly Drew & Jenna Wortham

  Get It Here +

• Bulgari Magnifica: The Power Women Hold

  Editor: Tina Leung

  Get It Here +

• The Echoing Ida Collection

  Editors: Cynthia R. Greenlee, Kemi Alabi, Janna A. Zinzi

  Get It Here +

Publications

Raquel Willis’s writing has appeared in national and international publications, including:

• Vogue

• The Cut

• Essence

• VICE

• BuzzFeed

• Bitch

• Autostraddle

• For Harriet

• HuffPost