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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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.
Oceania was always at war against the Uyghurs
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It’s upsetting. Evidence doesn’t matter. Maybe it’s all ideological and they know and are trying to keep others from finding out the truth, idk.
I really despise how MSM and the state department are now turning this into another green capitalism thing where you buy “uyghur cruelty free products.” I especially despise the “there’s a letter sewn into this product you bought from China how scary!”
Like if there was actually anything happening to even a tiny degree of what’s happening in Gaza in Xinjiang I would still hate the US for its cynical campaigning.
The only things Amerikans know how to do is buy product and lie.
I think they’re unable to believe that any government, except maybe the nordics, is less hated and less cruel and less violent than their government. Like even with all this, they’re still high on American Exceptionalism. So however bad their government is, China must be worse, so they’ll eat up any pig shit that falls in front of them.