SMNTY Interviews: Raquel Willis

Stuff Mom Never Told You

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Society & Culture

4.0 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Award-winning activist, writer and podcaster Raquel Willis joins us once again to talk about trans rights, radical defiance and tackling the history and complexity of Marsha P. Johnson in the second season of the podcast Afterlives.

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:09.4	Hey, this is Annie.
0:10.6	And Samantha.
0:11.3	And welcome to Steffo Never Told You, a production of IHeart Radio.
0:26.0	And y'all, we are so excited to welcome back.
0:27.4	All right, I'm going to have to list these off,
0:32.5	and I know I'm going to miss award-winning activist, writer, journalist, podcaster.
0:40.1	One of Times Women of the Year and friend of the show, obviously, Raquel Willis.
0:41.3	Welcome back.
0:43.1	Thanks for having me on.
0:44.6	It's good to be back.
0:48.7	Congrats on the well-deserved, hard-earned title of all the things,
0:51.1	but including Times Women of the Year.
0:51.5	Hello?
0:52.6	Yeah.
0:58.1	I mean, it's been a wild year. So it's actually interesting because they name me one of times women of the year. And then like a few weeks later, we're like,
1:04.2	we also want to name me to the time 100. And I was like, okay, sure, let's just get it all out of
1:10.0	the way this year and leave nothing for the rest of my life.
1:14.3	Nothing for the rest of my life.
1:16.0	I know, honestly, like, just the fact that I'm much older than you and you have all of these accolades, I'm like, I'm really behind.
1:23.6	But also, I love being able to say, I know her.
1:26.7	So, you know, it feels like I won just by being able to do that.
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