➡️ Step 1

✍️ Fill out the short form to the right to get access to free event registration. After confirming your email address, you'll get an email with the Zoom registration link. Please be patient; an actual human is manually approving registrations!

➡️ Step 2

📚 Pre-order the paperback before its release on June 9 (hardback also available). Buying through 👉this Bookshop.org link👈 benefits independent book stores and Parents of Trans Youth at no extra cost to you. Also available anywhere books are sold.

➡️ Step 3

🗣️ Show up live on June 30 and be ready with your questions for Raquel!
(Recording will be available for members of the Parents of Trans Youth online community only.)
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Raquel Willis is an award-winning activist, writer, and media strategist dedicated to collective liberation. She is the co-founder and strategic director of the Gender Liberation Movement, host of the podcasts Afterlives and Queer Chronicles, and author of The Risk It Takes to Bloom: On Life and Liberation. A former national organizer for the Transgender Law Center, Raquel made history as the first openly Black transgender woman in a senior editorial role at a major U.S. magazine (Out). A TIME Woman of the Year and TIME100 honoree, she continues to shape culture through storytelling, strategy, and advocacy for Black trans freedom.
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Mandy Giles (she/her) is the parent of two transgender young adults and the founder/CEO of Parents of Trans Youth, a social impact business providing learning, support, and community to parents and caregivers of transgender, nonbinary, and gender-diverse kids. She has been heavily involved in advocacy work since 2021 and has testified before the Texas Legislature dozens of times. Mandy is the 2026 Pride Houston Ally Grand Marshal, the recipient of the Equality Texas 2025 Business Champion Award, and a past president of PFLAG Houston.