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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Libs are literally babies. I’m so sick of hearing about this project 2025 stuff. “it will be the end of democracy if trump wins” and then you try to engage them with like “If this is such a big threat, does it compel the Biden administration to take extraordinary steps to prevent Trump from taking office” or “should they take any steps to hinder a trump administration, like dismantling security and surveillance apparatuses that could be used to target the vulnerable, or installing democrat loyalists with marching orders to hinder trump’s goals” and it’s not even that they think that’s absurd, they literally don’t understand how those things are connected to trump, day 1, flipping the switch to dictatorship.
I asked a big Democrat career state department guy who was shouting Trump will be the end of democracy what we should do if Trump none the less wins: engage in alternative or insurrectionary politics or just vote harder next time in a environment where he’s saying now it won’t matter. Guess which he said.
Its so wild to me that libs still believe in this made up atrocity, when we’ve had an actual atrocity livestreamed to us for the past 8 months. Honestly kind of infuriating.
The President is an elected dictator who can kill anyone he wants, but his regulatory agencies can’t do anything. Interesting theory of executive power.
