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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mushroom memec/mycology is lockedMycology is socialist propaganda, why would they share resources without maximizing profits?
You see the tree consciousness is actually far more developed than our own human consciousness. They're able to anticipate and plan into the, to us, incomprehensibly distant future β far beyond the event horizon we experience known as "the next quarterly report to shareholders"
Finding out that trees are maybe smart and have feelings, but they just do it real slow compared to the animal kingdom, has really shaken up how I think about things.
hey well said, that's a very cool thought. along similar lines, i've always liked to imagine that "seeing" from a tree's perspective might be like watching really fast time-lapse video, in whatever way and to whatever extent a tree can perceive its external environment. chilling on a totally different time scale. the rise and fall of empires, just a day in the life of a bristlecone pine
I think this picture is the best of this format because with this one I can feel the hot breath on my ear when I look at it