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".
-
Remember the radicalism of Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P Johnson
-
“Our armies are rising:” Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson
Megathreads and spaces to hang out:
- 📀 Come listen to music and Watch movies with your fellow Hexbears nerd, in Cy.tube
- 🔥 Read and talk about a current topics in the News Megathread
- ⚔ Come talk in the New Weekly PoC thread
- ✨ Talk with fellow Trans comrades in the New Weekly Trans thread
reminders:
- 💚 You nerds can join specific comms to see posts about all sorts of topics
- 💙 Hexbear’s algorithm prioritizes comments over upbears
- 💜 Sorting by new you nerd
- 🌈 If you ever want to make your own megathread, you can reserve a spot here nerd
- 🐶 Join the unofficial Hexbear-adjacent Mastodon instance toots.matapacos.dog
Links To Resources (Aid and Theory):
Aid:
Theory:
Dora and the Lost City of Gold was a chore to sit through on a portable dvd player while the power was out.
It’s a fish-out-of-water story like George of the Jungle, Addams Family, and the Brady Bunch movies. Except Dora is obnoxiously meta and her Sneako-lookalike cousin Diego is now the guy who’s too cool for Dora.
I find it hard to believe that Dora ten years older would still act like a 6 year old child. It makes sense with the other movies because those characters have grown and the younger cast always accepted who they were and were still children.
And of course her arch-nemesis is a virtue-signaling feminist who goes on random rants about misogyny over the smallest things. It’s clear that she’s meant to be an “easily offended” feminist archetype.
I know the reason to make it was every fan fantasy of a “dark” and “sexy” grownup Dora existing but this isn’t even that.