Being Seen: It's Complicated with Raquel Willis

Raquel Willis' resume is long: the first trans lead editor at Out magazine, a TIME 100 awardee, memoirist (The Risk It Takes To Bloom), and co-founder of the group Gender Liberation, whose direct actions at the US capitol calling for basic needs like trans healthcare reverberate far outside the DMV. We discuss the limitations of mainstream visibility in saving trans lives, and her podcast series AFTERLIVES, whose first two seasons cover the lives and passings of Layleen Polanco and Marsha P. Johnson. Raquel's site https://www.raquelwillis.com/ AFTERLIVES podcast https://www.afterlivespod.com/ Episode: Tourmaline on Marsha P. Johnson https://www.patreon.com/posts/129316368 Support the show and get new episodes early on Patreon: https://patreon.com/sadfrancisco  SAD FRANCISCO hats and shirts have landed: https://sadfrancis.co/?post_type=product