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 had a very strange trip today, because I didn't feel high at all but in retrospect I was not sober. I'm currently with three friends, two of whom smoked weed with me, one who didn't. We got it from a place that my friends said had really potent weed, but when we were smoking we didn't feel anything. I felt a bit of a buzz a bit later, but that went away.
Then we spent the day together and I kinda went a bit insane without realising it by falling romantically in love with my friend (the one who was not high). Like, I had found her attractive before, but she's a) in a long-term relationship, b) not attracted to me and c) someone who I really love as a friend, but never romantically before. But everything she did, I was like "oh my god she's amazing" in my head, I felt so happy to get her attention and make contact with her. But those are never feelings I had before, and now I'm sober again and I don't feel that way. Like what the fuck was that.
Also the weed hit me about six hours later really hard, and then I actually felt high, and then I very promptly passed out. Really weird experience altogether
Where can I get this this weed, it sounds awesome
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