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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βOur armies are rising:β Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson
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transmasc confusion
sadly masculinize (sp?) doesn't fit the meme's meter as well :'(
meme meter vs transmasc inclusion, tough choice indeed /s
masculate
and just while I'm here, the complete rejections of masculinity and testosterone by some trans femmes i've seen online feels really unhealthy and unhelpful, even as a joke
its a weird contradiction of accidentally veering into anti masc territory by being super transfem. i've seen transfem pages do it a lot and now i realize why there had to be concerted efforts to bridge oppressed groups into united fronts.
What if you did some kind of masc... uhh. Whatever the evil Dr. WHo robots are called?
Also I had a funny image of "the gender wars" where everyone has gender rays for some reason and when you get zapped your clothes change so you're wearing a bosozuko biker's greaser outfit complete with pompadore or a super-bimbocore barbie pink powersuit, because those are the two genders.
This is canon!