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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  • Blockocheese [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    4·
    7 hours ago

    I do feel really bad for the innocent Ukrainians who aren’t Nazis and have to deal with all this shit for the west to just abandon them

  • sneak100 [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    10·
    12 hours ago

    Maybe this is my own mistake for subbing to a uk_politics comm on feddit.uk, but the libs treating the inevitable labour election win today as a “win” in any way for the common person is really infuriating. I have an uncontrollable urge to sit them all down and show them the labour files al jezeera doc

  • ashinadash [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    10·
    15 hours ago
    cw wh\*te south african guy, racism, very cursed, awful

    The company I worked at for five years, I knew personally the vice president of operations, basically the head of the whole corp since the actual company president or whatever was like 120 years old. Was a friend of my mother’s.

    One of the memories I have is this guy giving an anecdote about having to flee his country, on account of gangs of roving bandits commiting Lindisfarne style rapine and slaughter. At the time I was like 17 had no fucking idea what this guy was talking about, and assumed he was just having a senior moment, (the guy is like 80 now) but once I got on bear website I connected the dots and realised… oh, he’s talking about fleeing South Africa after apartheid ended down there. Man’s was doin’ a racism sadness-abysmal at the fucking dinner table, with family and friends.

    Ain’t seen the guy in ages but holy shit the psychic damage, remembering this incident oh-shit

  • ComradePlatypus [fae/faer]@hexbear.netEnglish
    11·
    15 hours ago

    Okay so the writing in Fallout 4 is dogshit. But I really got thrown by this thing Deacon said yesterday while I was playing:

    Love the job you’re doing with the Minutemen. But, historically, they’ve been little better than policemen, though.

    And it’s like what the fuck man? It’s more than 200 years since the bombs dropped and you live in an area which has never had a formal organised state (and have said you’ve visited DC another place like that), let alone one that had policemen.

    Like guards, security, militia etc. But not police. And like I get that maybe policemen became just a synonym for those things, but Deacon being one of the more anarchist members of Railroad is clearly using it in the historic sense.

    Also policemen that might exist in the NCR (on the complete opposite coast) probably do suck some of the time (like if they are putting down striking workers for Brahmin Barons) but the act of rebuilding a functioning nation-state like the NCR for all it’s flaws is kind of historically progressive compared to just being settlements and raiders.

  • AlpineSteakHouse [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    14·
    16 hours ago

    I’m submitting a new lathe request for funniest outcome of the election:

    Kamala Harris becomes the nominee, Biden becomes the VP. Kamala beats Trump and becomes president. Then, she dies from a brain aneurysm and we get Biden again. I just think it would be funny if Biden’s health somehow outlasts hers.

  • Rojo27 [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    10·
    15 hours ago

    -Everyone celebrating the United States of Amerikkka tomorrowvisible-disgust

    -Working tomorrowobama-sad

    -Crush off tomorrow (well, good for her of course)kiryu-dame-da-ne