“It’s gonna be legendary!” Mya Taylor as Marsha P Johnson in Happy Birthday Marsha! We are still raising post production funds so please support/share!
Friday at Rutgers: Trans Politics Scholarship & Strategies Conference!
This Friday I’ll be heading to Rutgers University for the Trans Politics: Scholarship & Strategies for Social Change conference.
I’ll be reading a new piece I am working on about trans hirstory, Marsha P Johnson (thats Randy Wicker's poster above) and growing a culture of trans liberation. If you are in the area please join me! Some fabulous folks including Kim Watson, Jeanne Vaccaro, Ben Singer, Nora Butler-Burke & Dean Spade will be also be there!
More information about the conference is here
Marsha P Johnson Film Screening & New Member Orientation at the Sylvia Rivera Law Project next Thursday at 6PM!
Food & metrocards will be available as well as Spanish interpretation for the new member orientation. SRLP is located at 147 West 24th Street, 5th Floor. Our building has an elevator. For more on access information or to RSVP email [email protected]
Pay It No Mind - The Life and Times of Marsha P. Johnson
This beautiful documentary is now entirely online! Please PAY IT SOME MIND!
i was finally able to upload this beautifully shot video of SRLP's teach in at Zucotti Park. it starts at the 50 second mark with Kazembe Balagun, followed by Carlos Motta (who did translation), Pooja Gehi, myself, Naomi Clark & Jeannine Tang.
this was one of the first moments i felt part of trans & gender non conforming people taking up space at the park with our bodies and our legacies. right now i'm wondering about how these creative tensions are held within different movement, artistic and personal relationships one year later.
thanks to Jonah Groeneboer for filming and MPA for recording the audio! thanks to everyone who came and held signs and translated and human microphoned, and filled wall street with the some of the best light its had since the Dutch came and built the wall.
#Marsha P. Johnson#OWS#OWS Arts & Labor#Pooja Gehi#SRLP#Sylvia Rivera#arts and activism#gender self determination#jeannine tang#kazembe balagun#marsha p johnson#naomi clark#reina gossett#reina july#s.t.a.r.#street transvestite action revolutionaries#sylvia rivera law project#zucotti park#carlos motta
celebrating another revolution around the summer sun! thanks for all the birthday love, friends i am truly floating!
(also i made this collage from Diane & Leo Dillon's astronaut piece and Matty's marvelous illustration of Marsha P Johnson!)
Marsha P Johnson Documentary Playing at the Sylvia Rivera Law Project Thursday 6/21
Thursday, June 21st, 6.30-8.30PM Maybe you were there, or maybe you already know that *Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera consistently fought back and gave for their communities while breathing both, fire and life into movement work! Come honor those who came before us & those of us making history daily-simply by surviving. We'll eat snacks, view the powerful, "Pay It No Mind" documentary about Marsha P. Johnson and share our own histories. Come on over! At SRLP 147 W 24th Street, 5th Floor New York, NY Trains: C/M/R/N/F/1 This event is FREE. Metrocards provided. Allies welcome. *"Marsha P. Johnson was a revolutionary trans activist, Stonewall instigator, Andy Warhol model, drag queen, prostitute, starving actress, and Saint, as well as a downtown NYC fixture from the 1960’s through her too-soon demise in 1992. Johnson persevered through a life embodied by her middle initial P, which stood for “Pay It No Mind.”
About Intro 475 city hall photo with Sylvia Rivera, Marsha P.Johnson, Kady Vandeurs, Barbara Deming, etc...
thank you for the memory of Sylvia R. & Marsha J. I can tell you for sure, though, that Kady was a friend oh Marsha, and didnot vote against support for queer and trans street folk. Kady was a student & cab driver at the stonewall time, and often gave free lifts to Marsha and other queer and trans folk. Kady was queer and poor and radical herself, and did all she could do to help other [particularly] poor folk. Thanks and cheers to you from Diana Jo Davies. [ps. I took the photo at City Hall.]
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Hi Diana Davies,
What an honor it is to have you on this blog! Thank you for writing me and sharing your deep insight. Also thank you for the incredibly rich archive you have created and so generously shared with the world, I am sure you hear this all the time but your work has been incredibly meaningful to me as both an activist and artist. I believe your archive has been fundamental in this moment of renewed & on going interest in the lives of many queer and trans people, especially Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P Johnson.
I'll definitely amend the photo description, and its great to know more about Kady Vandeurs! Just to clarify, when I wrote "Sadly some of these fab folks then got the bill passed by bumping off coverage of gender identity" I wasn't saying Barbara Deming, Kady Vandeurs were responsible, I was referring to the way that it actually ended up getting passed through negotiation of eliminating gender expression/identity coverage from the bill. Sylvia talked a lot about it and the collusion of some prominent lesbian & gay people with it, for instance Jean O'Leary & the Lesbian Feminist Liberation. Here is one speech Sylvia gave about how the bill was passed: http://redalyc.uaemex.mx/pdf/377/37719106.pdf
with deep appreciation,
reina
At the Chloe Awards with Sylvia Rivera Law Project staff attorney Pooja Gehi! This photo is by the amazing Shelly Sheddy!
Rev. Moshay Moses talks about her spiritual connection with trans sisters Sylvia Rivera & Chloe Dzubilo at Thursday's Chloe Dzubilo Awards celebrating the revolutionary lives of trans activists Marsha P Johnson, Sylvia Rivera and Chloe Dzublio and honoring the current work trans and queer activist revolutionaries! This video was recorded by Randy Wicker, friend of Marsha P Johnson and also an awardee!
Also, OMG the night was amazing and ended with the dazzle dancers dancing completely naked on the alter of Judson Memorial. What could have felt like played out irony felt like sincere celebration of life, and I loved it!
Last year during Chloe Dzubilo's memorial Antony Hegarty of Antony & the Johnsons (named after Marsha P Johnson) performed Rapture and then broke into an impromptu political speech about the diminishing circles of healthcare for trans people & long term survivors of HIV/AIDS, which contributed to Chloe's death. Really powerful. This is the audio from Out-FM, I originally made this video I made for my old Lent blog.
NYCers: please come to Thursday's celebration of Chloe Dzubilo's, Marsha P Johnson & Sylvia Rivera's lives at Judson Memorial Church (55 Washington Sq S, Manhattan)! Antony is performing again, Rosario Dawson Mcs, I may do some minor speechifying in honor of trans OWS activists. Elizabeth Rivera, long term trans activism currently at Make the Road will be honored along with the creators of the documentary “Pay it No Mind: Marsha P. Johnson"
Ten Posts for Sylvia Rivera's Ten Year Memorial
The spirit was gone from her body Forever had always been inside That shell had always been intertwined And now were disintwined It's hard to understand
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I am pursued by questions of historical process, of historical responsibility, questions of historical consciousness & ignorance & what these have to do with power.
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Historical amnesia is starvation of the imagination; nostalgia is the imagination’s sugar rush, leaving depression and emptiness in its wake. Breaking silences, telling our tales, is not enough. We can value that process –and the courage it may require –without believing that it is an end in itself. Historical responsibility has, after all, to do with action –where we place the weight of our existences on the line, cast our lot with others, move from an individual consciousness to a collective one.
(photo by Randy Wicker. text from Antony Hegarty's the Spirit Was, Adrienne Rich's Resisting Amnesia. )
Marsha P Johnson
photo by Randy Wicker
thespiritwas reblogged
A tribute to Marsha P. Johnson ♥