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100 1  Willis, Raquel,|eauthor. 
245 14 The risk it takes to bloom :|bon life and liberation /
       |cRaquel Willis. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bSt. Martin's Press,|c2023. 
264  4 |c©2023 
300    xvii, 363 pages :|billustrations, portraits ;|c22 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references. 
505 00 |gIntroduction --|gPart I: Rooting --|tFour blue walls --
       |tMy interior world --|tRevelations --|tThe playground of 
       gender --|tAn ill-fitting frame --|tLetter to my father --
       |tDeath to expectations --|tSeen, differently --
       |tChrysalis --|tFor women who had a boyhood --|gPart II: 
       Budding --|tDestiny's detour --|tPlausible deniability --
       |tThe labyrinth of desire --|tLetter to Leelah Alcorn --
       |tAwakening to Black liberation --|tBetween visibility and
       vitality --|tSlouching toward liberation --|tNobody's 
       savior --|gPart III: Pruning --|tAn era of reckoning --
       |tTesting my faith --|tLetter to Chyna Gibson --
       |tWomanhood, expanded --|tGirls' night outing --|tI have a
       right to show my color --|gPart IV: Blooming --|tA peach 
       in the Big Apple --|tThis ain't no chick flick --|tOur 
       ancestor's wildest nightmare --|tLetter to Layleen Polanco
       --|tFalling pillars --|tRevolution's knockin' --|gEpilogue
       :|tWelcome to the garden. 
520    "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 election of Donald Trump, 
       primed to tell her story as a young Black transgender 
       woman from the South. Despite having her speaking time cut
       short, the appearance only deepened her commitment to 
       speaking up for communities on the margins. 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. In The Risk It Takes to 
       Bloom, Raquel Willis recounts with passion and candor her 
       experiences straddling the Obama and Trump eras, the 
       possibility of transformation after tragedy, and how 
       complex moments can push us all to take necessary risks 
       and bloom toward collective liberation"--|cProvided by 
       publisher. 
600 10 Willis, Raquel. 
650  0 Transgender women|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 African American transgender people|vBiography. 
650  0 Transgender people|xCivil rights|zUnited States. 
650  0 Gay rights|zUnited States. 
650  0 Civil rights|zUnited States. 
650  0 Civil rights workers|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  7 Trans women.|2homoit 
650  7 Transgender people of color.|2homoit 
650  7 LGBTQ+ people.|2homoit 
650  7 Gay rights.|2sears 
650  7 Civil rights|zUnited States.|2sears 
655  0 Autobiographies. 
655  7 Transgender autobiographies.|2homoit 
655  7 Transgender literature.|2homoit|0https://homosaurus.org/v3
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