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Watertown, Wisconsin school board voted 7-1 to remove Omar Thomas's "A Mother of a Revolution!" — an instrumental dedicated to Marsha P. Johnson — from the May 18 concert. Thirty-two students practiced all year. The Vice President called a piece with no lyrics indoctrination. Fascism rehearses in band rooms.
https://twp.ai/4hrGLy
#LGBTQ #Trans #Wisconsin #Stonewall #MarshaPJohnson #Censorship #Queer #Education #Resistance #Pride -
#WMPG honors #BlackHistoryMonth
"WMPG recognizes Black History Month with special programming throughout the month of February, highlighting the voices, music, history, and lived experiences of Black artists, activists, and storytellers.
Tune in to hear programs that celebrate Black creativity and resilience across genres and generations, from music that shaped movements to conversations that deepen our understanding of the past and present."
Segments include:
#MarshaPJohnson, #RobertLewis, #EarthaKitt, #MalcomX, #AlvinAiley, #BobGreen, #ChadwickBoseman, #DukeEllington, #LewisLatimer, #AudreLord, #ATribeCalledQuest, #OtisRedding, #NelsonMandela, #GarzaCullorsTometi, #LeslieOdomJr, #NinaSimone, #AudraMcDonald #BelHooks, #Beyonce, #FlorencePrice, #JamesBaldwin, #MuhammadAli, #ScottJoplin, #GraceVenuzaRogers, #BobTheDragQueen, #GordonParks, #KobeBryant, #WEBDubois, #BarackObama, #AudreLorde, #Lizzo, #KatherineJohnson, #ClaudetteColvin, #RhiannonGiddens, #TaranaBurke, #TeresaKachindamoto, #ShirleyChisholm, #ThurgoodMarshall, #HarrietTubman, #JohnBrownRusswurm, #StevieWonder, #LeadBelly, #MaryMcleodBethune, #ShirleyChisolm, #LeonardCummings, #MaeJemison, #BadBrains, #CornelWest, #MaconBollingAllen, #SpikeLee, #BeverlyGlennCopeland, #AngelaDavis, #SojournerTruth, #HankAaron, #BillieHoliday, #GeraldTalbot, #TrevorNoah, #JosephineBaker, #JackieRobinson, #ArethaFranklin, #ToniMorrison, #RobertLewis, #IndigoArtsListen:
https://www.wmpg.org/wmpg-honors-black-history-month/#BlackHistory #BlackArtists #BlackMusicians #BlackActivists #CommunityRadio #CollegeRadio
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#WMPG honors #BlackHistoryMonth
"WMPG recognizes Black History Month with special programming throughout the month of February, highlighting the voices, music, history, and lived experiences of Black artists, activists, and storytellers.
Tune in to hear programs that celebrate Black creativity and resilience across genres and generations, from music that shaped movements to conversations that deepen our understanding of the past and present."
Segments include:
#MarshaPJohnson, #RobertLewis, #EarthaKitt, #MalcomX, #AlvinAiley, #BobGreen, #ChadwickBoseman, #DukeEllington, #LewisLatimer, #AudreLord, #ATribeCalledQuest, #OtisRedding, #NelsonMandela, #GarzaCullorsTometi, #LeslieOdomJr, #NinaSimone, #AudraMcDonald #BelHooks, #Beyonce, #FlorencePrice, #JamesBaldwin, #MuhammadAli, #ScottJoplin, #GraceVenuzaRogers, #BobTheDragQueen, #GordonParks, #KobeBryant, #WEBDubois, #BarackObama, #AudreLorde, #Lizzo, #KatherineJohnson, #ClaudetteColvin, #RhiannonGiddens, #TaranaBurke, #TeresaKachindamoto, #ShirleyChisholm, #ThurgoodMarshall, #HarrietTubman, #JohnBrownRusswurm, #StevieWonder, #LeadBelly, #MaryMcleodBethune, #ShirleyChisolm, #LeonardCummings, #MaeJemison, #BadBrains, #CornelWest, #MaconBollingAllen, #SpikeLee, #BeverlyGlennCopeland, #AngelaDavis, #SojournerTruth, #HankAaron, #BillieHoliday, #GeraldTalbot, #TrevorNoah, #JosephineBaker, #JackieRobinson, #ArethaFranklin, #ToniMorrison, #RobertLewis, #IndigoArtsListen:
https://www.wmpg.org/wmpg-honors-black-history-month/#BlackHistory #BlackArtists #BlackMusicians #BlackActivists #CommunityRadio #CollegeRadio
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#WMPG honors #BlackHistoryMonth
"WMPG recognizes Black History Month with special programming throughout the month of February, highlighting the voices, music, history, and lived experiences of Black artists, activists, and storytellers.
Tune in to hear programs that celebrate Black creativity and resilience across genres and generations, from music that shaped movements to conversations that deepen our understanding of the past and present."
Segments include:
#MarshaPJohnson, #RobertLewis, #EarthaKitt, #MalcomX, #AlvinAiley, #BobGreen, #ChadwickBoseman, #DukeEllington, #LewisLatimer, #AudreLord, #ATribeCalledQuest, #OtisRedding, #NelsonMandela, #GarzaCullorsTometi, #LeslieOdomJr, #NinaSimone, #AudraMcDonald #BelHooks, #Beyonce, #FlorencePrice, #JamesBaldwin, #MuhammadAli, #ScottJoplin, #GraceVenuzaRogers, #BobTheDragQueen, #GordonParks, #KobeBryant, #WEBDubois, #BarackObama, #AudreLorde, #Lizzo, #KatherineJohnson, #ClaudetteColvin, #RhiannonGiddens, #TaranaBurke, #TeresaKachindamoto, #ShirleyChisholm, #ThurgoodMarshall, #HarrietTubman, #JohnBrownRusswurm, #StevieWonder, #LeadBelly, #MaryMcleodBethune, #ShirleyChisolm, #LeonardCummings, #MaeJemison, #BadBrains, #CornelWest, #MaconBollingAllen, #SpikeLee, #BeverlyGlennCopeland, #AngelaDavis, #SojournerTruth, #HankAaron, #BillieHoliday, #GeraldTalbot, #TrevorNoah, #JosephineBaker, #JackieRobinson, #ArethaFranklin, #ToniMorrison, #RobertLewis, #IndigoArtsListen:
https://www.wmpg.org/wmpg-honors-black-history-month/#BlackHistory #BlackArtists #BlackMusicians #BlackActivists #CommunityRadio #CollegeRadio
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#WMPG honors #BlackHistoryMonth
"WMPG recognizes Black History Month with special programming throughout the month of February, highlighting the voices, music, history, and lived experiences of Black artists, activists, and storytellers.
Tune in to hear programs that celebrate Black creativity and resilience across genres and generations, from music that shaped movements to conversations that deepen our understanding of the past and present."
Segments include:
#MarshaPJohnson, #RobertLewis, #EarthaKitt, #MalcomX, #AlvinAiley, #BobGreen, #ChadwickBoseman, #DukeEllington, #LewisLatimer, #AudreLord, #ATribeCalledQuest, #OtisRedding, #NelsonMandela, #GarzaCullorsTometi, #LeslieOdomJr, #NinaSimone, #AudraMcDonald #BelHooks, #Beyonce, #FlorencePrice, #JamesBaldwin, #MuhammadAli, #ScottJoplin, #GraceVenuzaRogers, #BobTheDragQueen, #GordonParks, #KobeBryant, #WEBDubois, #BarackObama, #AudreLorde, #Lizzo, #KatherineJohnson, #ClaudetteColvin, #RhiannonGiddens, #TaranaBurke, #TeresaKachindamoto, #ShirleyChisholm, #ThurgoodMarshall, #HarrietTubman, #JohnBrownRusswurm, #StevieWonder, #LeadBelly, #MaryMcleodBethune, #ShirleyChisolm, #LeonardCummings, #MaeJemison, #BadBrains, #CornelWest, #MaconBollingAllen, #SpikeLee, #BeverlyGlennCopeland, #AngelaDavis, #SojournerTruth, #HankAaron, #BillieHoliday, #GeraldTalbot, #TrevorNoah, #JosephineBaker, #JackieRobinson, #ArethaFranklin, #ToniMorrison, #RobertLewis, #IndigoArtsListen:
https://www.wmpg.org/wmpg-honors-black-history-month/#BlackHistory #BlackArtists #BlackMusicians #BlackActivists #CommunityRadio #CollegeRadio
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#WMPG honors #BlackHistoryMonth
"WMPG recognizes Black History Month with special programming throughout the month of February, highlighting the voices, music, history, and lived experiences of Black artists, activists, and storytellers.
Tune in to hear programs that celebrate Black creativity and resilience across genres and generations, from music that shaped movements to conversations that deepen our understanding of the past and present."
Segments include:
#MarshaPJohnson, #RobertLewis, #EarthaKitt, #MalcomX, #AlvinAiley, #BobGreen, #ChadwickBoseman, #DukeEllington, #LewisLatimer, #AudreLord, #ATribeCalledQuest, #OtisRedding, #NelsonMandela, #GarzaCullorsTometi, #LeslieOdomJr, #NinaSimone, #AudraMcDonald #BelHooks, #Beyonce, #FlorencePrice, #JamesBaldwin, #MuhammadAli, #ScottJoplin, #GraceVenuzaRogers, #BobTheDragQueen, #GordonParks, #KobeBryant, #WEBDubois, #BarackObama, #AudreLorde, #Lizzo, #KatherineJohnson, #ClaudetteColvin, #RhiannonGiddens, #TaranaBurke, #TeresaKachindamoto, #ShirleyChisholm, #ThurgoodMarshall, #HarrietTubman, #JohnBrownRusswurm, #StevieWonder, #LeadBelly, #MaryMcleodBethune, #ShirleyChisolm, #LeonardCummings, #MaeJemison, #BadBrains, #CornelWest, #MaconBollingAllen, #SpikeLee, #BeverlyGlennCopeland, #AngelaDavis, #SojournerTruth, #HankAaron, #BillieHoliday, #GeraldTalbot, #TrevorNoah, #JosephineBaker, #JackieRobinson, #ArethaFranklin, #ToniMorrison, #RobertLewis, #IndigoArtsListen:
https://www.wmpg.org/wmpg-honors-black-history-month/#BlackHistory #BlackArtists #BlackMusicians #BlackActivists #CommunityRadio #CollegeRadio
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Trump erased trans & queer history from Stonewall. Lawmakers are fighting to get it back
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/news/stonewall-transgender-erasure-democrats-outraged
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The video starts with a trans person, Erin, talking about Zohran Mamdani's new political ad for Mayor of New York.
It throws to the ad, which shows Mamdani sitting at a desk in a park, wearing a neat suit. While he's talking a number of old pictures of New York from the 70s and 80s show, along with photos of Sylvia Rivera.
It cuts back to Erin talking about the ad again.
#trans #queer #lgbtiqa #Protest #pride #SylviaRivera #MarshaPJohnson #MissMajor
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"[M]ost people don’t know what Pride is about. The anguish, and the hurt, and the reason why Pride started in the first place—it was an anti-cop event. Look, yes—I know there are trans police officers. You have Black people who are police officers, and women police officers. All that’s cute, but guess what: It’s blue first, your other allegiances second. Once you get on that blue, child, it goes straight through to your brain, dyes your brain blue, and you’re no longer whoever the fuck you were before. So no, they don’t need to be there. That’s where their loyalty lies. So stay the fuck away from me."
—Miss Major
["Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary" by Toshio Meronek]
#queer #trans #anarchism #pride #activism #policing #LGBTIQA #PrideProtest #FirstPrideWasARiot #MarshaPJohnson #MissMajor #AbolishPolice #AbolishPrisons #Abolition #CommunityNotCops #NoJusticeNoPeace #NoCopsAtPride
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What We Can Learn From the Defiant Life and Legacy of Marsha P. Johnson
Black trans artist, filmmaker, and activist Tourmaline discusses her new book about Marsha’s trailblazing life.
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The first pride was a protest 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
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#Pride2025 #marshapjohnson #stonewall #transisbeautiful #transpride #TransRightsAreHumanRights #LGBTQ #nonbinary #genderfluidpride #pansexual #onpointlgbtstyles -
"Marsha P. Johnson was one of the most prominent figures of the gay rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s in New York City. Always sporting a smile, Johnson was an important advocate for homeless LGBTQ+ youth, those effected by H.I.V. and AIDS, and gay and transgender rights."
#MarshaPJohnson #GayRights #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #LGBTHistory
https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/marsha-p-johnson
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Starting off a Month of Prideful Reading #BookSky📚💙 #pride #books #MarshaPJohnson
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"I paint my face and put on a show, but my true art is opening hearts and minds. I'm a walking revolution, honey!" —Marsha P. Johnson
#queer #trans #anarchism #pride #activism #policing #LGBTIQA #PrideProtest #FirstPrideWasARiot #MarshaPJohnson #AbolishPolice #AbolishPrisons #Abolition #CommunityNotCops #NoJusticeNoPeace #NoCopsAtPride
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Looking forward to reading this to the little one. I like how lovely and hopeful it is. #parenting #OneDayInJune #books #MarshaPJohnson #TransRightsAreHumanRights
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"LGB" is not a thing. #transgender brothers & sisters led at Stonewall. #Trans icon #MarshaPJohnson set it off. I am not part of "LGB" community, because there is NO community & no #liberation for any of us without liberation for ALL of us! #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
"Cruel & petty" Donald Trump has trans people removed from Stonewall monument's website - LGBTQ Nation
> Trans people were important in a key moment of LGBTQ+ history. The Trump administration banned speaking
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[Thread] So, it took having to do a search on the website, but I managed to find the #BlackHistoryMonth audio archives on the #WMPG website. Hopefully, the ones from 2025 will also be posted on their website (and the ones already posted won't disappear...).
Black History month - daily short history audio features
Posted February 3, 2021 by 'mpger
"Everyday in the month of February (Black history month), WMPG is airing a short audio feature about an influential Black man or woman in history. We’ll hear about people from Maine to Malawi. We celebrate scientists, radicals, teachers, preachers, musicians, athletes, and those who fought to followed their dreams. You can hear them all again right here: #BillieHoliday , #LeonardCummings , #MaconBollingAllen , #HarrietTubman , #NelsonMandela , #ShirleyChisholm , #MarshaPJohnson , #GordonParks , #JackieRobinson, #AngelaDavis , #ThurgoodMarshall , #StevieWonder , #Lizzo , #CornellWest , #TrevorNoah , #MaeJemison , #TaranaBurke , #AlvinAiley , #JosephineBaker, #RhiannonGiddens, #SunRa, and #LaverneCox."
Link to mp3 audio files:
https://www.wmpg.org/black-history-month-daily-short-history-audio-features/
#BlackHistory #BlackMusicians #BlackHistoricalFigures #CommunityRadio #WMPGFM -
[Thread] So, it took having to do a search on the website, but I managed to find the #BlackHistoryMonth audio archives on the #WMPG website. Hopefully, the ones from 2025 will also be posted on their website (and the ones already posted won't disappear...).
Black History month - daily short history audio features
Posted February 3, 2021 by 'mpger
"Everyday in the month of February (Black history month), WMPG is airing a short audio feature about an influential Black man or woman in history. We’ll hear about people from Maine to Malawi. We celebrate scientists, radicals, teachers, preachers, musicians, athletes, and those who fought to followed their dreams. You can hear them all again right here: #BillieHoliday , #LeonardCummings , #MaconBollingAllen , #HarrietTubman , #NelsonMandela , #ShirleyChisholm , #MarshaPJohnson , #GordonParks , #JackieRobinson, #AngelaDavis , #ThurgoodMarshall , #StevieWonder , #Lizzo , #CornellWest , #TrevorNoah , #MaeJemison , #TaranaBurke , #AlvinAiley , #JosephineBaker, #RhiannonGiddens, #SunRa, and #LaverneCox."
Link to mp3 audio files:
https://www.wmpg.org/black-history-month-daily-short-history-audio-features/
#BlackHistory #BlackMusicians #BlackHistoricalFigures #CommunityRadio #WMPGFM -
[Thread] So, it took having to do a search on the website, but I managed to find the #BlackHistoryMonth audio archives on the #WMPG website. Hopefully, the ones from 2025 will also be posted on their website (and the ones already posted won't disappear...).
Black History month - daily short history audio features
Posted February 3, 2021 by 'mpger
"Everyday in the month of February (Black history month), WMPG is airing a short audio feature about an influential Black man or woman in history. We’ll hear about people from Maine to Malawi. We celebrate scientists, radicals, teachers, preachers, musicians, athletes, and those who fought to followed their dreams. You can hear them all again right here: #BillieHoliday , #LeonardCummings , #MaconBollingAllen , #HarrietTubman , #NelsonMandela , #ShirleyChisholm , #MarshaPJohnson , #GordonParks , #JackieRobinson, #AngelaDavis , #ThurgoodMarshall , #StevieWonder , #Lizzo , #CornellWest , #TrevorNoah , #MaeJemison , #TaranaBurke , #AlvinAiley , #JosephineBaker, #RhiannonGiddens, #SunRa, and #LaverneCox."
Link to mp3 audio files:
https://www.wmpg.org/black-history-month-daily-short-history-audio-features/
#BlackHistory #BlackMusicians #BlackHistoricalFigures #CommunityRadio #WMPGFM -
[Thread] So, it took having to do a search on the website, but I managed to find the #BlackHistoryMonth audio archives on the #WMPG website. Hopefully, the ones from 2025 will also be posted on their website (and the ones already posted won't disappear...).
Black History month - daily short history audio features
Posted February 3, 2021 by 'mpger
"Everyday in the month of February (Black history month), WMPG is airing a short audio feature about an influential Black man or woman in history. We’ll hear about people from Maine to Malawi. We celebrate scientists, radicals, teachers, preachers, musicians, athletes, and those who fought to followed their dreams. You can hear them all again right here: #BillieHoliday , #LeonardCummings , #MaconBollingAllen , #HarrietTubman , #NelsonMandela , #ShirleyChisholm , #MarshaPJohnson , #GordonParks , #JackieRobinson, #AngelaDavis , #ThurgoodMarshall , #StevieWonder , #Lizzo , #CornellWest , #TrevorNoah , #MaeJemison , #TaranaBurke , #AlvinAiley , #JosephineBaker, #RhiannonGiddens, #SunRa, and #LaverneCox."
Link to mp3 audio files:
https://www.wmpg.org/black-history-month-daily-short-history-audio-features/
#BlackHistory #BlackMusicians #BlackHistoricalFigures #CommunityRadio #WMPGFM -
[Thread] So, it took having to do a search on the website, but I managed to find the #BlackHistoryMonth audio archives on the #WMPG website. Hopefully, the ones from 2025 will also be posted on their website (and the ones already posted won't disappear...).
Black History month - daily short history audio features
Posted February 3, 2021 by 'mpger
"Everyday in the month of February (Black history month), WMPG is airing a short audio feature about an influential Black man or woman in history. We’ll hear about people from Maine to Malawi. We celebrate scientists, radicals, teachers, preachers, musicians, athletes, and those who fought to followed their dreams. You can hear them all again right here: #BillieHoliday , #LeonardCummings , #MaconBollingAllen , #HarrietTubman , #NelsonMandela , #ShirleyChisholm , #MarshaPJohnson , #GordonParks , #JackieRobinson, #AngelaDavis , #ThurgoodMarshall , #StevieWonder , #Lizzo , #CornellWest , #TrevorNoah , #MaeJemison , #TaranaBurke , #AlvinAiley , #JosephineBaker, #RhiannonGiddens, #SunRa, and #LaverneCox."
Link to mp3 audio files:
https://www.wmpg.org/black-history-month-daily-short-history-audio-features/
#BlackHistory #BlackMusicians #BlackHistoricalFigures #CommunityRadio #WMPGFM -
#podcast
#LGBTQ Idole Stormé DeLarverie und Marsha P. Johnson#Nordamerika, #Queer, #Schwarz
#STORMÉDELARVERIE UND #MARSHAPJOHNSON ZUM #LGBTQHISTORY MONTH
Stormé DeLarverie war als Drag King ein Bühnenstar, lesbische Aktivistin und die Beschützerin der lesbischen Community in New York. Marsha P. Johnson kämpfte als Street Queen für die Rechte der queeren Community und gründete eine erste Organisation für trans Jugendliche. Beide sollen 1969 den Aufruhr im Stonewall Inn ausgelöst haben, der ein Meilenstein für die Pride Bewegung war.
https://herstorypod.de/podcast/storme-delarverie-und-marsha-p-johnson-zum-lgbtq-history-month/ #herstory -
#podcast
#LGBTQ Idole Stormé DeLarverie und Marsha P. Johnson#Nordamerika, #Queer, #Schwarz
#STORMÉDELARVERIE UND #MARSHAPJOHNSON ZUM #LGBTQHISTORY MONTH
Stormé DeLarverie war als Drag King ein Bühnenstar, lesbische Aktivistin und die Beschützerin der lesbischen Community in New York. Marsha P. Johnson kämpfte als Street Queen für die Rechte der queeren Community und gründete eine erste Organisation für trans Jugendliche. Beide sollen 1969 den Aufruhr im Stonewall Inn ausgelöst haben, der ein Meilenstein für die Pride Bewegung war.
https://herstorypod.de/podcast/storme-delarverie-und-marsha-p-johnson-zum-lgbtq-history-month/ #herstory -
#podcast
#LGBTQ Idole Stormé DeLarverie und Marsha P. Johnson#Nordamerika, #Queer, #Schwarz
#STORMÉDELARVERIE UND #MARSHAPJOHNSON ZUM #LGBTQHISTORY MONTH
Stormé DeLarverie war als Drag King ein Bühnenstar, lesbische Aktivistin und die Beschützerin der lesbischen Community in New York. Marsha P. Johnson kämpfte als Street Queen für die Rechte der queeren Community und gründete eine erste Organisation für trans Jugendliche. Beide sollen 1969 den Aufruhr im Stonewall Inn ausgelöst haben, der ein Meilenstein für die Pride Bewegung war.
https://herstorypod.de/podcast/storme-delarverie-und-marsha-p-johnson-zum-lgbtq-history-month/ #herstory -
#podcast
#LGBTQ Idole Stormé DeLarverie und Marsha P. Johnson#Nordamerika, #Queer, #Schwarz
#STORMÉDELARVERIE UND #MARSHAPJOHNSON ZUM #LGBTQHISTORY MONTH
Stormé DeLarverie war als Drag King ein Bühnenstar, lesbische Aktivistin und die Beschützerin der lesbischen Community in New York. Marsha P. Johnson kämpfte als Street Queen für die Rechte der queeren Community und gründete eine erste Organisation für trans Jugendliche. Beide sollen 1969 den Aufruhr im Stonewall Inn ausgelöst haben, der ein Meilenstein für die Pride Bewegung war.
https://herstorypod.de/podcast/storme-delarverie-und-marsha-p-johnson-zum-lgbtq-history-month/ #herstory -
#podcast
#LGBTQ Idole Stormé DeLarverie und Marsha P. Johnson#Nordamerika, #Queer, #Schwarz
#STORMÉDELARVERIE UND #MARSHAPJOHNSON ZUM #LGBTQHISTORY MONTH
Stormé DeLarverie war als Drag King ein Bühnenstar, lesbische Aktivistin und die Beschützerin der lesbischen Community in New York. Marsha P. Johnson kämpfte als Street Queen für die Rechte der queeren Community und gründete eine erste Organisation für trans Jugendliche. Beide sollen 1969 den Aufruhr im Stonewall Inn ausgelöst haben, der ein Meilenstein für die Pride Bewegung war.
https://herstorypod.de/podcast/storme-delarverie-und-marsha-p-johnson-zum-lgbtq-history-month/ #herstory -
CW: Long post, essay on white supremacy and gender binarism
THE TIME HAS COME AT LAST! A little over 3 months ago, I made this post promising I’d write something about gender binarism and white supremacy: https://blackqueer.life/@tillshadeisgone/111426260719689474
Well, that essay grew in scope and has now become a three-parter! The first part will be about the history of the ideology known as gender binarism, the second part will be about the gay rights movement, and the third part will be my own analysis of how these issues are showing up in present day digital spaces.
PART ONE
We will begin with a couple of articles. The first article is here:https://minorityafrica.org/colonialism-gender-trans-identity-africa/
I highly encourage you to read this article, but it discusses how pre-colonial African societies held varying, highly flexible ideas about gender and gender norms. Femininity and masculinity were both quite fluid. However, Western colonialism purposefully destroyed these cultural practices in an attempt to homogenize these societies’ behavior to force them to become “civilized”. Violence, shaming, and criminalization were all used as tools to accomplish this. Today, modern African countries still bear the scars of that colonialism, with transmisia being just as common as it is in the West.
The second article is here:
Once again, read it for more information, but this article examines various examples of how some indigenous societies in North America and Asia treasured gender fluidity. Not only did cultural practices include those who lived gender fluidity, they also emphasized the importance of such people in spirituality and storytelling. Despite resistance from these indigenous societies, Western colonialism marginalized these practices and attempted to repress these people as much as possible.
Both of these articles show us how Western colonialism, as well as white supremacist patriarchal ideals of masculinity and femininity as rigid and based in anatomy, were forced upon many indigenous peoples and ended up trampling their relatively flexible gender categories. This, in a nutshell, is what is meant when we discuss gender binarism. It is a Western ideology that forces white, “civilized” gender norms on the racial Other, who is depicted as savage, immoral, and deviant.
PART TWO
In this part, we will be looking at the origin of the gay rights movement through the lens of the involvement of two key trans people of color, Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera.Let’s do some reviewing. In this article you will find a brief summary of how both Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera became friends and were closely involved with the burgeoning gay rights movement, including their presence at Stonewall and founding of S.T.A.R. :
https://www.biography.com/activists/marsha-p-johnson-sylvia-rivera-friendship
You can see in this article a mention of how they experienced resistance within the more mainstream gay rights movement. We will expand on this in the next article:
https://www.liberationschool.org/our-armies-are-rising-sylvia-rivera-and-marsha-p-johnson/
This article is MUCH more in depth. If you’re only going to read one article from this post, make sure it’s this one. While difficult to summarize, I want to draw your attention to a few essential elements. First, the members of S.T.A.R. were predominantly working class and what we would refer to today as trans people of color. Second, they openly allied themselves with the Young Lords and the Black Panthers in a show of solidarity against white supremacy, capitalism, and colonialism. Third, the white middle class mainstream gay movement was openly hostile to the members of S.T.A.R. due to that movement’s white supremacist attitudes and adherence to respectability politics, even going so far as to ban Sylvia Rivera from speaking at a Christopher Street Liberation Day in 1973, the first iteration of what eventually became Pride. (She spoke anyway, and you should watch the video, it’s quite stirring: https://vimeo.com/234353103)
Looking at these historical examples, we can see that the gay rights movement suffered immensely from its allegiance to white supremacy and assimilationism. These destructive allegiances fractured the movement, and we see the results today. We have achieved marriage equality (except for disabled folks), the pet issue of white middle class gays, and an ongoing trans genocide simultaneously. Trans people of color suffer the worst, and while we have since then elevated Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera as founding figures of Pride, the Pride parades of today are capitalist white supremacist celebrations of assimilationism with corporations and cops involved in almost every city. Pinkwashing and homonationalism run rampant.
To close part two, you can read more about Marsha P. Johnson here:
https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/marsha-p-johnson
and Sylvia Rivera here:
https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/sylvia-rivera
PART THREE
For part three, some analysis of my own. Today in the queer community, we are still grappling with the legacy of gender binarism and white supremacy. The fact of the matter is, you cannot dismantle the gender binary without dismantling white supremacy. If you read the history you will see: gender binarism comes from white supremacy and colonialism. The gay rights movement has largely failed to recognize this fact, and our efforts to, as Sylvia Rivera put it, fight for “Gay Power” have been limited and sabotaged by a stubborn adherence to white supremacy. The gay rights movement of the 70s should have heralded the vision, power, and passion of the members of S.T.A.R. and joined their efforts in coalition building, instead of marginalizing them because they were less palatable to the establishment. All because they were poor, not white, and less “polished” (read: civilized).And we see the legacy of white supremacist Western colonialism even in our queer digital spaces today. For example, I and many other queer and trans BIPOC before me have been raising the alarm about white supremacy on the fediverse for years. We have been speaking at length about how our issues should be centered in digital activism as well. How has this call to action been received?
True to form, white queer and trans people have been extremely hostile to us, claiming that we are participating in transmisia in our efforts to make the fedi a safer space for everyone. To those people I have this to say: it is impossible for you to truly fight transmisia without divesting from white supremacy, the system that invented and forced transmisia on the world. You who fail to align your activism with the struggles of colonized peoples can only ever be agents of white supremacy and therefore agents of transmisia. Many of you will declare your allyship with the colonized and oppressed communities of color, but your actions prove the lie behind your words. False allyship to the colonized and oppressed is just another white supremacist and transmisic tool of destruction.
To close, I will be blunt and specific. For all of you who claim that Ro or WelshPixie are puppetmasters and that those of us working in solidarity with them are members of a cult or are deluded by their manipulations, I have this to say:
You do not have my permission to deny my fucking agency any longer. I am fully capable of speaking for myself as a Black nonbinary transfeminine person. I do not need you or anyone else to tell me how to think or what to believe. I have read the history and I can see the truth, plain as the nose on my face. Furthermore, it is my opinion that any person who examines the facts and is able to renounce their allegiance to white supremacy and gender binarism will believe as I do.
Shame on you for denying my agency! Shame on you for betraying your queer and trans comrades of color with your white supremacist and transmisic ways! Shame on you for participating in a mass disinformation and harassment campaign against those of us FIGHTING to be a part of this community!
Reading the history of colonialism, white supremacy, gender binarism and the gay rights movement and looking at what’s going on now, I have one question.
What’s changed?
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