The Risk It Takes to Bloom : On Life and Liberation sexwork or at least stop fighting

or at least stop fighting them at every step

but when they hit the end of their winning-streak

and left mayhem in her wake

Jack Guiness

With a singularly funny

The Risk It Takes to Bloom : On Life and Liberation sexwork or at least stop fightingOne 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