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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I started learning violin a few weeks ago, it's hard but being an adult learner means you get to make crazy fast progress (compared to 8 year olds lol).
I learned to play the star wars theme on my own, jurassic park, that one song the creepy ass young scholars on Renalas boss fight.
This has been really fun! Learning a new skill as an adult is cool. Also, renting a 2 grand violin is like $20 a month. Way affordable.
Iβve been getting back into learning the keyboard.
Iβve got Silent Night down.
that's so cool. I've been thinking about getting back into writing music and this might be what finally pushes me to do it
It's fun! Violin also feels way more literal than woodwind (I used to play Tuba), like you only have your bowlength, you shrink the strings length to raise pitch, etc. Woodwind was more direct for me to produce good tones, it takes so much work to not sound like trash on violin π©
I used to teach violin to elementary kids as part of an after school program. Super cool!
I was a cellist as a kid and I've been low-key wanting to buy a cello or bass and get back into it. I wish orchestra instruments weren't so much more expensive than electric guitars/basses. I'm afraid of renting because some act of God would cause me to destroy it somehow.
Where do you get your sheet music?
My teacher but also just the standard RCA (I'm canadian) books for like early beginners