PAquel Willis is not afraid of risk. I have organized wide rallies to protest against violence against black spirits and gathered outside the Supreme Court to support transit youth in the midst of the ongoing case. United States against skrmettifor Who will decide if it is Certified health care between the sexes The prohibition of minors is constitutional. Last December, Willis was arrested in the Capitol due to the launch of A. Pigeons sit -in It limits a proposal to ban transit women from the toilets in federal property. The title of its notes 2023, The risks required by prosperityfor It confirms her fear.
But for Willis, “Southern Woman, Black, Transient, Strange” from Augusta, Georgia, the most dangerous thing she has done so far is to choose to live in an original way. “Our society is not ready to honor anger or transport,” she says.
Willis, 33, is the co -founder of Sex liberation movement (GLM), the popular group responsible for Brooklyn’s liberation marches that attracted thousands of people in 2020 and 2021. In 2024, GLM organized an editorial Sex editing march In Washington, DC, in an attempt to highlight the ways in which the battles are linked to abortion and transit rights. “For us, the liberation of the sexes revolves around physical autonomy, self -determination, and the pursuit of loyalty, and collective,” she explained. “We want to be glue between these different battles and make people talk about the impact of restrictions about sex with us all.” The way Willis sees, the restrictions imposed on the options surrounding our bodies are a danger to everyone, regardless of how to get to know you.
“Many institutions have failed and will continue to do this,” she says. Since the opening of President Trump, a number of executive orders Targeting people who are not a gender match It has already been signed – one of them states that the United States will only get to know “two sexes, male and female”. But thinking about the long path forward, Willis tries to maintain a feeling of calm. “We have to remember that societies on the margins have witnessed conflicts and difficulties in every era. We will discover the solutions that serve us.” Perhaps not surprisingly, she adds: “I will find ways to bear the risks to bring us closer to collective liberation.”
