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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Anyone here like to see Nazis' private communications get leaked? The artist Luke Turner was the target of an antisemitic harassment campaign by DC Miller and Nina Power, and it got to the point where he took them to court and actually won. The evidence from the case was apparently just now made public and Turner has excerpted the best/worst parts of their chats and secret twitter accounts: (content warnings for Nazism, antisemitism, racism, transphobia, ableism, really lots of stuff): https://luketurner.com/Nina_Power/
I think my favorite part is Nina Power writing in private that feminist academia has made her a Nazi while publicly claiming that support for trans people is misogyny. Really laying bare the TERF-to-Nazi pipeline there. On that note, her brave defender Kathleen Stock has reacted to this reveal of her commitment to fascism by reiterating that she has her full support. All in all, it's good to see that the courts sometimes can do the right thing and that another Nazi has gone bankrupt.
I think any ideology that espouses rigid rules and hierarchies is well on the road to fascism.
Holy shit these people are such absurd hacky larpers
No surprise the most inbred looking english woman is a nazi terf