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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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.
As anyone tried this?
I’m as conservative as they come, but the way the government is telling my daughter she can’t go by her own name at school is wrong.
or
I’m as conservative as they come, but I’m fucking sick and tired of my boss taking 50% of my hard earned wage as his own profit so he can put his kids through college
or
I’m as Christian as they come, which is why I render unto Caeser what is Caeser’s and I take care of the sick and the refugees
(👆 zero chance that’d ever work, but I hope you get the gist at least)
It couldn’t be done by me, you’d have to be one of those conservative-to-socialist people to really figure anything that’d even come close to working.
Job security is realistically the only plus of my job, and generally it’s a good thing but psychologically it’s hard to talk yourself into thinking that it’s good I’m guaranteed to keep the job I hate lol.
They actually repaired the rowing machine at my gym. I thought it’d be gone forever
Glidin with Biden
Folks. Drunken sailors - they’re a menamce! But what do you do with a drunken sailor? What do you do with a drunken sailor, early in the morning?
I kinda get r&d or software engineer working at some ambitous startup getting a little high on their own supply, but sometimes ill see data “scientists” talking like they’re curing cancer and I know they’re probably just predicting clickthrough rates or making quarterly earnings reports. You’re not going to change the world, you’re probably not going to even change your plotly theme.
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-Everyone celebrating the United States of Amerikkka tomorrow
-Working tomorrow
-Crush off tomorrow (well, good for her of course)
Guy at McKinsey losing his hair from stress and pulling an all-nighter to make a powerpoint that says “have you tried paying people less?”
Sometimes I’m like maybe i should get a another phd in like condensed matter physics or electrical engineering. Them im like nah i should instead get a second math phd, make the abstract nonsense in this one even more abstract and nonsensical
Hearing the charges getting read and shaking my head so the jury knows I don’t approve of crime
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.
It’s funny how push notifications are so annoying I just instinctively click no whenever my phone or browser asks anything. Fuck off, don’t want it.
Breaking: Kamala has requested that Biden commit seppuku by sunset tomorrow.
