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The Risk It Takes to Bloom : On Life and Liberation - Raquel Willis Pages:384 pages, Includes 4 black-and-white photographs `Tea began as a medicineOne 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