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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So speaking of covid shit. Is it possible to get a bunch of those new fangled UV lights just for personal use? Can I wear them on a hat brim and walk around? Can I get a lamp for my desk and keep my room safe from my roommates? Has anyone heard of such a thing?
My understanding is you need UV-C to disinfect stuff and UVC IS VERY BAD FOR YOUR EYES. VERY VERY VERY BAD.
Remember that cryptobro show where they burned everyone's eyes out? It was apparently because they sourced sketchy UV lights with no UV filters.
If you're going to fuck with it do your reading, get your lights from a reputable (whatever that means anymore) seller, and be very careful about eye safety. Part of the problem with UV is that you can't see it, so your eyes don't have the reflex to squint or closed when you're looking at a dangerously brigh UV source. You don't know you're being harmed until you start getting swimmies in your vision.
Afaik it's not a portable thing. If you want to clean the air in a house you're going to want to install UV-C lights in a vent or something that moves air through it so the virus gets burned out of the air as it passes through the vent. There are disinfecting wands but I think they're mostly for germs on surfaces and Covid doesn't really spread much from surfaces.
Overall I think it's mostly a solution for large buildings, or for an entire building if you have some kind of central HVAC system and could convince the building owner to install a UV system.
I'm a big fan of Corsi-Rosenthal boxes. Get a 20in x 20in box fan, four furnace filters that are HEPA or better, and make a box by taping them together then just leave it running all the time. It'll clean all kinds of crap out of the air in a home or appartment very quickly.
probably would be much safer and effective to do air filtration with the rosen corn whatever box
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