Beyond Trans Visibility with Raquel Willis
Unladylike
Unladylike Media
4.8 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Activist Raquel Willis is on the frontlines of the trans rights movement 24/7. We follow Raquel's journey to becoming a modern-day movement leader. Plus, we dig deeper into trans inclusion in feminism, the weaponization of womanhood and the onslaught of anti-trans laws that are sweeping the US.
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| 0:00.0 | We have been told that we are not enough to parents, to family, to lovers, to giants, |
| 0:18.1 | to organizations, to schools, to our governments, to the world. |
| 0:27.6 | The truth is, as we are more than enough. |
| 0:31.4 | Federciation of the Ladies underwear |
| 0:37.1 | Federals laugh |
| 0:50.2 | Hey y'all and welcome to Un Ladylike. |
| 0:52.3 | I am Cristin, I am Caroline, and you all just heard today's guest, double |
| 0:57.0 | Speaking at the Brooklyn Liberation March, last June. |
| 1:00.7 | It felt like the era was like electric, like something new was happening here. |
| 1:09.5 | Like we were entering a new era. |
| 1:13.1 | By day, Rekelis the Communications Director for the Mizz Foundation for Women. |
| 1:18.0 | But for the past five years, she has been working 24-7 on the frontlines of the Transrights |
| 1:24.3 | Movement. |
| 1:25.8 | Last summer, as historic numbers of protesters flooded the streets in response to George Floyd's |
| 1:31.4 | murder, a group of multi-racial, gender-expansive activists, including Rekel, organized the Brooklyn |
| 1:38.6 | Liberation March. |
| 1:40.3 | They wanted to call attention to the fact that police brutality disproportionately harms |
| 1:45.0 | Black trans people. |
| 1:46.7 | The March was quite possibly the largest protest for Black trans lives ever. |
| 1:53.1 | The bigger estimates are around 20,000 folks, which is huge. |
| 1:58.7 | We thought, okay, well, maybe we'll get a few hundred folks, maybe a few thousand folks. |
| 2:05.5 | But when we were speaking at the Brooklyn Museum and we were kind of on this balcony level, |
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