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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Posting my Ls today
One time someone I knew online was going to school for computer science (I think they still are but I haven't spoken to them in a while) and they were taking a math class ofc. I have a lot more practical experience than them but they were telling me something about Cauchy sequences or something and I thought it was some kind of obscure math they were teaching or something and I didn't understand why and completely embarrassed myself as they tried to explain to me that this is foundational stuff
WHY DIDN'T THEY TEACH ME ANY MATH BEYOND THE MOST BASIC SHIT IN PRIMARY/SECONDARY SCHOOL
Shout out to one of the best teachers I ever had in high school though, she was from Poland and implied to me that she was a communist lol
She let me take a calculator home so I could implement what we were learning as a program and use it on tests, also she somehow found time to teach me how to use matrices to solve some problem I was having at the time, sadly didn't stick in my head though
The main advantage of a standardized state/federal education curriculum paired with standardized testing is it decreases the "I had a good teacher" lottery a bit. You might get poorer instruction, but generally everyone will have a basic familiarity with key topics. Lots of disadvantages, but hearing second hand stories from areas that don't have this always makes me a bit more standardization-pilled. Disclaimer: i mean testing as a meand to evaluate schools and school boards, not students and teachers. Standardized testing for the latter two tends to have more negative consequences.