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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CW: meatloaf
so this public safety officer (school cop) was eating at work again and I told her I made the meatloaf if she'd wanna try it and she was like aww yeah! and ate some, and came back later to tell me how delicious it was, saying it was so good, but she like went to hi five me and we hi fived and then she like grasped my fingers??? I like went with it because what else am I gonna do???? but it was very weird 😔 i have literally never had that happen before. so weird.also does this really need a content warning (CW: meatloaf again)
saying "CW: meatloaf" is just as much mention of meatloaf as saying "I cooked some meatloaf" so I don't really see what the point isI was more blindsided by the school pig
yeahhhhh, she seems nice though and it's hard for me to not be nice to someone who is kind to me. She said my marsala was the best ever a few days ago which was why I was like, hey I made this stuff tonight
at least she's not a cracker u_u