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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We don't even have mitts, we just use clothes.
at that point I would honestly just buy my own to bring and use, like I'm sure you're like "skill issue" and good enough to not need them but for me it is a luxury that I would want to have. I really do not like fucking around with towels to handle hot things in a hurry
Oh, we should totally have mitts, it's really really stupid we don't. These are fucking bar rags too, not even real clothes and we go through them crazy fast cause they're probably made of mostly plastic so exposure to VERY extreme heat (trad pizzas, 620 or higher oven) and being washed each night. Our chef sucks at spending money cause he's a coward, which cuts well both ways at times. We haven't replaced our deep fryer that broke over a year ago and have been using a pot of oil on a convection burner. It's not great.
yeahhh that's a good way to get bad burns, I don't think synthetic fabrics are supposed to be used in kitchens because they pretty much melt under heat, then burn
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well at least you don't have a big ass deep fryer to clean out, but I bet that's real fun to deal with a lot of orders with
do you use pizza crispers/steels or whatever to put them in the oven on or do the pizzas just go straight in the oven? When I did the pizza station here we used what were basically special short tongs that clasp onto the steel, that might be something that works better to get them out safely
We don't do pan pizzas, those boys go straight on the stone with those bigass pizza paddles. We only really need clothes for pans that get baked in the pizza oven