Exposed for the first time to the realities of life for those less privileged than herself
she sifts the past to bring existences deemed `marginal' into communion with each other
including on large scales
`Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage
Please be Authentically You
The Risk It Takes to Bloom : On Life and Liberation - Raquel Willis Pages:384 pages, Includes 4 black-and-white photographs Exposed for the first timeOne of TIME magazine's 2025 WOMEN OF THE YEARWINNER of the LGBTQ+ Nonfiction, 2024 Best Book Awards Born in Augusta, Georgia, to devout Black Catholic parents, Raquel Willis grew up yearning for belonging in a world that offered little language for queerness and transness. Though surrounded by love, she felt isolated adrift between faith, expectation, and a truth she couldn't yet name. At the University of Georgia, she discovered her first glimpses of