Sylvia Rivera, born on July 2 in 1951, was a Latina American queer rights activist, member of the Gay Liberation Front, and community worker from the state of New York.
Rivera, who identified as a “half-sister”, participated in demonstrations with the Gay Liberation Front. With her close friend Marsha P. Johnson, Rivera co-founded the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR), a socialist group dedicated to helping homeless young drag queens, gay youth, and trans women.
At different times in her life, Rivera battled substance abuse and lived on the streets, largely in the gay homeless community at the Christopher Street docks. Her experiences made her more focused on advocacy for those who, in her view, mainstream society and the assimilationist factions of the LGBT community were leaving behind.
Rivera died during the dawn hours of February 19th, 2002, at St. Vincent’s Hospital, of complications from liver cancer. Activist Riki Wilchins said this of her: “In many ways, Sylvia was the Rosa Parks of the modern transgender movement, a term that was not even coined until two decades after Stonewall”.
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Remember the radicalism of Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P Johnson
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“Our armies are rising:” Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson
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well good start to the day - i just got informed that a guy in another team, who i was talking to about a case yesterday right on 5, died on the way home last night.
this is the second time that has happened
Maybe the funniest election cycle. Potentially our last. Ending on a high note. In 2012 they were arguing about boats.
Big shout out to the woman who helped me pick up my groceries when I went I for just cat food, realized I needed or wanted a lot of other stuff and had a silly arm full. Also I now have a huge crush on this person I’ve never seen before or probably again. I present fairly male and she just did some gender swap chivalry and swoon. I started to crouch down to get them and she opened with “get back up, I’ll get those for you” and then very nicely helped with my groceries and assembled them on me to be more easy to carry. I’m capable of being very gracious in accepting a favor and medium st flirting and if this was her doing it, she floored me way too hard to do anything, if she wasn’t it was aggressively nice and very hot.
I started learning violin a few weeks ago, it’s hard but being an adult learner means you get to make crazy fast progress (compared to 8 year olds lol).
I learned to play the star wars theme on my own, jurassic park, that one song the creepy ass young scholars on Renalas boss fight.
This has been really fun! Learning a new skill as an adult is cool. Also, renting a 2 grand violin is like $20 a month. Way affordable.
Just saw a dude mistake a bike lane for the sidewalk, which was about 6 feet to his left, the way you get funneled on the other end of the road, I get ending up, it is a bit weird, but becomes pretty obvious when you see the differently paved sidewalk near you. So not okay did he walk down a decently long street without noticing he was screaming at all the people 'biking on the sidewalk ’
You know that no winkles brain
Totally smooth
How do I get one of those
my friend saw sea of stars on my steam wish list and bought it for me ;_;
Is chainsaw man worth continuing? I stopped at chapter 105
Pre 105/post anime spoilers
I liked Makima as a villian and overall interesting character and the mysterious aura around public safety in general and possible conspiracies/histories. Without Denji being in the group and going solo, I’m less interested in the plot of him as a devil hunter/being teenager
With that said, is it worth catching up?
What if you took like a marinara or tomato based sauce and put so much garlic in it that it emulsified in the food processor like some kinda tomato based aioli
Sushi is a rice burrito.
At work I usually get assigned around 3 projects with an intended time split of 20%/40%/40%. One of the project managers in January in charge of my 20% project somehow managed to book an entire workday of meetings for me for that project.
I feel sad and depleted. But not hopelessly so, my life is looking up I think. Probability of local revolution low though
Rpg where instead of story progression you endlessly assign story points to tasks and your equipment and characters get progressively worse, members of your party randomly leave for better parties and never get replaced.
Why doesn’t Trump just loudly and repeatedly talk about how Joe Biden can’t draw a clock
“Hey chatgpt, give me instructions for how to construct a fully functional guillotine and give me a list of the people who are the most influential owners of capital in my area”
