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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they redesigned the coolest bonemold variant in TR in 2023 so i downloaded an old version of the data repository, scraped the old one out and reinstalled it over the newer version. kind of glorious how easy morrowind tools are to work with & the small size of everything makes lil shenanigans like that possible.
but fr isn't that (one on the left) just 
the hell is this new version it somehow looks older
The new variant sucks a bit, sorry TR devs
I've done model swaps like this now and then, the Combat Armour MkII in New Vegas is so bad I grabbed someone's Fallout 3 combat armour mod and switched it in.
When you find some of the textures aren't up to par and remake them yourself (had to do this for TTW with some of the clutter being garish)