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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Radlibs when Joe Biden kills about a hundred thousand Palestinian children and a hundred thousand adults:
Radlibs when Keir Starmer is in talks with GCs:
Why is the lesser evil tolerable when they’re committing genocide against Palestinians, but when they’re a TERF that’s too far? And it’s crazy because as we’ve pointed out in here about 100 times, Joe Biden does not care about trans people and has done absolutely nothing about the transphobic policies being enacted in red states. Why does he get a pass? Does Labor just not have bot farms?
For once this meme doesn’t even make sense cause they were shitting on trans people the whole pride month anyway
Nationalism, dehumanization, and self-interest
Ok probably this too yeah
More seriously on the bot farm point, maybe it’s not so much the bot farms but American radlibs are incredibly naive while British radlibs can recognize that Labor is a dead end?
They can always vote for the radlibdems
Labour isn’t even the lesser evil at this point they’ve just straight up usurped the greater evil position from the tories who are now seemingly irrelevant
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