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Raquel Reyes and The Goddess Recordings

Raquel Reyes and The Goddess Recordings

By: Signal Found Productions The Trans Wiki Project and Raquel Reyes
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The Trans Wiki Project and Signal Found Productions presents The Goddess Recordings—an audio/spoken word series chronicling the life, legacy, and myth of Raquel Reyes, the pioneering trans model, artist, and early-internet icon who redefined beauty in the digital age. Once the world’s most downloaded transsexual model and author of the 2005 cult-classic memoir Goddess, Reyes is now regarded as a foundational figure in digital self-creation—her work anticipating the influencer that would later dominate social media. Two decades after her digital disappearance, this series explores her place in trans literature and cyber-culture—tracing the influence of Goddess and what that first wave of online fame revealed about creation, endurance, and the echoes we leave behind.

©2025 Raquel Reyes
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Episodes
  • Goddess Ascending
    Dec 22 2025

    Episode 3 of The Goddess Recordings traces the moment Raquel Reyes crosses the threshold from presence to phenomenon. As dial-up America gives way to global visibility, what began as a handful of images becomes an economy of attention—circulating through early websites, print media, and an ever-widening international circuit long before the age of platforms. This episode follows the instant the myth takes hold, and the private costs that rise alongside it.

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    10 mins
  • Dial-Up Dreams—The Digital Emergence of a Persona
    Dec 15 2025

    Episode 2 of The Goddess Recordings follows Raquel Reyes as she steps into the early digital frontier and begins shaping a sophisticated online presence at a time when most of the internet was still raw and experimental. Against the backdrop of dial-up connections, emerging web culture, and a circle of creative collaborators, she constructs a digital persona that stood apart from the amateur landscape of the era. Through archival context and narrative analysis, this episode traces how vision, technology, and identity converged to launch a new kind of visibility.

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    12 mins
  • Early Life—Before the Online Legend
    Dec 8 2025

    Episode 1 of The Goddess Recordings explores the early life of trans icon Raquel Reyes, before public visibility and online identity reshaped her world. Coming of age in 1980s and 1990s Florida, her childhood was marked by family instability, early gender awareness, and the survival instincts that shaped her long before recognition arrived. Through archival context and narrative reflection, this opening chapter documents the human story beneath the digital record that would later surround her.

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    9 mins
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