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Anthropologist turned Human Geographer

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Hey since TERFs buried the original, higher quality recording, here’s the only surviving recording of trans activist Sylvia Rivera’s infamous “Y'all Better Quiet Down” speech, along with full transcription, now free and open on Archive.org. The transphobic fucks can try their best to scrub us from history, but we’re not going anywhere.

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and if you can, go and see The Death and Life of Marsha P Johnson, which includes this footage as part of a fuller segment on Sylvia Rivera’s life right up until her death. what an amazing person who the world was not ready for.

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(Transcription follows:) Sylvia Rivera: I may be—

Crowd: [booing]

Sylvia Rivera: Y'all better quiet down. I’ve been trying to get up here all day for your gay brothers and your gay sisters in jail that write me every motherfucking week and ask for your help and you all don’t do a goddamn thing for them.

Have you ever been beaten up and raped and jailed? Now think about it. They’ve been beaten up and raped after they’ve had to spend much of their money in jail to get their [inaudible], and try to get their sex changes. The women have tried to fight for their sex changes or to become women. On the women’s liberation and they write ‘STAR,’ not to the women’s groups, they do not write women, they do not write men, they write ‘STAR’ because we’re trying to do something for them.

I have been to jail. I have been raped. And beaten. Many times! By men, heterosexual men that do not belong in the homosexual shelter. But, do you do anything for me? No. You tell me to go and hide my tail between my legs. I will not put up with this shit. I have been beaten. I have had my nose broken. I have been thrown in jail. I have lost my job. I have lost my apartment for gay liberation and you all treat me this way? What the fuck’s wrong with you all? Think about that!

I do not believe in a revolution, but you all do. I believe in the gay power. I believe in us getting our rights, or else I would not be out there fighting for our rights. That’s all I wanted to say to you people. If you all want to know about the people in jail and do not forget Bambi L'amour, and Dora Mark, Kenny Metzner, and other gay people in jail, come and see the people at Star House on Twelfth Street on 640 East Twelfth Street between B and C apartment 14.

The people are trying to do something for all of us, and not men and women that belong to a white middle class white club. And that’s what you all belong to!

REVOLUTION NOW! Gimme a ‘G’! Gimme an ‘A’! Gimme a ‘Y’! Gimme a ‘P’! Gimme an ‘O’! Gimme a ‘W’! Gimme an ‘E! Gimme an ‘R’! [crying] Gay power! Louder! GAY POWER!

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There’s some really important commentary on this event by several trans women on the previous upload of the video. I’m going to quote it here so it’s not lost; unfortunately the original commenters have deleted their blogs or gone private so I can’t provide full attribution.

lilacbootlaces said:

[[Trigger warning: suicide]]

Sylvia went home that night and attempted suicide.

Marsha Johnson came home and found her in time to save her life.

Sylvia left the movement after that day and didn’t come back for twenty years.

@ourcatastrophe said:

this is incredible, she is incredible, I highly recommend watching it

but I think the addendum re: the effect of this day on sylvia is really important

so often we valorise decontextualised moments of tough, articulate resistance and rage

and the suffering of the people who embodied them is not acknowledged, it’s uncomfortable, it’s not inspiring, we want them to stay tough and cool and stylish forever

which is particularly terrible when I think about how sylvia felt like that because of women like me — women who are now watching this video and feeling inspired and impressed and maybe a bit pleased with ourselves for finally having watched a speech by the famous and really cool to name-drop sylvia rivera

girl-assassin said:

rebloggin for the true as fuck commentary (bolding mine)

n like, on one hand this moment is decontextualized as fuck, but on the other hand a lot of ppl try to hyper-contextualize it to make it “history” and a very specific historical moment, so we (cis women) can be like “oh so sad that’s how it was in the 1970s, radfems were so awful, but it was only the whole second-wave scene that was the problem, glad that’s over.”

Like have we forgotten the fact that Sylvia only died in 2002? And she died young, if she were still alive she wouldn’t even be 65 yet. I know hella older ppl in NYC who knew her personally, and hella “leaders” of the NYC queer scene pulled horrific shit on her constantly in the 80s, 90s, and 2000s, like literally until the day she died (ppl from Empire State Pride agenda literally went to St. Vincents to beef with her on her death bed) Where are the video tapes/memorializing of that shit?

N now the Manhattan LGBT center on 13th st has a room dedicated to her memory, despite the fact that very center permanently banned her in 1995 for daring to suggest they should let homeless QTPOC sleep there in sub-zero weather.

N now there’s a whole homeless trans youth shelter on 36th st named after her, Sylvia’s Place, that kicked my TWOC friend out on the streets for testing positive for marijuana; failing to recognize how fucked up that is in a shelter named after a woman who struggled with addiction all her life, and was very vocal about the relationship between drug use and the stress of living under constant threats of violence.

N from the late 90s onward rich gays and lesbians openly fought against Sylvia to try to shut down 24/7 access to the piers that she n hella other QTPOC cruised and lived on bc they were bringing down the property values of their multi-million west village apartments.

N like 90% of the individual people who perpetuated fucked up violence against Sylvia are still alive and high-profile leaders in the NYC LGBT “community” today.

So like yes, good, remember the oppressive weight of our history of transmisogyny…but also remember that this shit specifically ain’t even history, it’s the current reality of the NYC queer/trans hierarchy today—like not even figuratively, literally the same people who pulled shit like this on Sylvia are still alive n well n all over NYC cutting the ribbons to the newest Sylvia Rivera memorial n eulogizing her like they never tried to fucking kill her themselves.

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Sorry for constantly reblogging this but here’s some more info?

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Malaysia to Send Plastic Waste Back to Where It Came From

The Southeast Asian nation has already sent five containers back to Spain

“Malaysia plans to send non-recyclable plastic back to the countries that sent it to there, said its environment minister on Tuesday.

“Developed countries must be responsible in what they send out,” Yeo Bee Yin, Malaysia’s minister of energy, technology, science, climate change and environment told Reuters. She added that some of the waste sent to Malaysia was in contravention of the Basel Convention, an international treaty drafted to regulate the export of waste to developing countries.

The Southeast Asian country became the top destination for plastic waste in 2018 after China stopped accepting imports, according to Reuters, with plastic waste imports jumping to 456,000 tonnes between January and July 2018 compared with 316,600 tones in all of 2017 and 168,500 tonnes in all of 2016.”

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‘Recycling’ from developed world dumped in Malaysia and left to rot - Greenpeace International

"Malaysia and other developing countries should not be the dumping ground for plastic waste that other countries should be dealing with them

To be clear: this has been a problem for a long time and it’s only getting worse, and the waste is primarily coming from the US, UK, the EU, and Australia. This is white supremacy at work on a global scale.

Quote from the above Greenpeace article on this issue:

“Malaysia is the new dumping site for plastic ‘recycling’ from more than 19 countries, including the US, UK and Australia, according to new research released today by Greenpeace Malaysia. “The Recycling Myth” report uncovered blatant regulation violations in the disposal of this waste, including dumping and open-air burning, and illegal practises contributing to environmental pollution and harmful health impacts for Malaysians.

“The Malaysian plastic recycling industry is overwhelmed by the influx and cannot accommodate the waste in a way that is sustainable and acceptable by the government’s own standards. Our investigation found evidence of harmful plastic waste processing being carried out in Klang, on the western outskirts of the capital Kuala Lumpur, and Jenjarom to the south,” said Heng Kiah Chun, Public Engagement Campaigner at Greenpeace Malaysia.

Since China banned plastic waste imports in January 2018, countries in Southeast Asia – particularly Vietnam, Thailand and Malaysia – have accepted an increased amount of plastic waste.[2] Between January and July 2018 alone, Malaysia imported 754,000 metric tonnes of plastic — the weight of approximately 100,000 large elephants. The waste came from countries like the United States, Japan, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Finland, France, Belgium, Germany, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.”

When I was in Kuala Lumpur in April 2019 the capital city and the surrounding Klang Valley, which is home to almost 8 million people, had all water shut off for several days due to potential water contamination and leakages. This includes schools, hospitals, and government buildings. This happens regularly, and it’s because our infrastructure is not built to handle the sheer amount of waste we have to process for the rest of the world. My people don’t deserve this, and the land and ocean doesn’t either.

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“Ninety percent of waste is exported from high-income countries and then all too often either openly burned or dumped in low-income countries. Globally, only 9% of plastic waste is actually recycled, 12% is incinerated, and the remaining 79% ends up in landfill or the natural environment.”

This is environmental racism. This is what we mean when we talk about the way the Global South is treated. This is killing people.

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‪Ayn Rand - Atlas Shrugged (1957)‬

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Not to be an anarchist on main but we should all have free time and space to make things and be creative

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'Climate leaders don't build pipelines': Indigenous advocate tells Trudeau

Confrontation in Vancouver interrupted PM's comments on reconciliation, climate change

An Indigenous leader confronted Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at a fundraiser in Vancouver on Wednesday, calling him a “weak leader” while criticizing his government’s plan to expand the Trans Mountain pipeline.

Trudeau was speaking at a Liberal Party fundraiser when Will George of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation in North Vancouver stood and began to question him, asking whether he planned to push the pipeline project through.

“You’re a liar and you’re a weak leader,” George said. “Climate leaders don’t build pipelines.

“We say no. No means no.”

George is a member of Protect the Inlet, an advocacy group opposed to the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion. The prime minister was speaking onstage at a downtown hotel about the need to take “real action” on climate change and to move forward on reconciliation when George questioned him.

Continue Reading.

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“Trudeau pointed to “Indigenous voices” who have spoken in favour of the pipeline. 

“I know you don’t mean to deligitimize their voices as well,” Trudeau said.”

What the actual..??? Is it just me or is this rage inducing? What kind of gaslighting bullshit is this?

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This is pretty par for the course colonial behavior: divide and conquer.

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“It is absurd to tell women to love themselves in a world that alienates them from their own flesh. No amount of one-quarter-moisturiser soap can wash away the knowledge of what your female body means to others: sex object, breeder, wank fodder, window dressing, on-set extra. The distress women feel when confronted with image after image of extreme thinness cannot simply be characterised as “I want to look like that so that men love me.“ A woman might actually be thinking “women are supposed to look like that because men do not like us at all.” Or “I want to look like that so that my body will be less fleshy, less female and less real.“ Women starve, binge and purge because they feel trapped in bodies that are not “theirs”. The trouble is, there is never a female body that fits.”

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No More Skinny is a campaign to redirect the objectification of women, not fight it

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“We Will Not Be Complicit” Italian Unions Refuse to Load Saudi Ship Carrying Weapons to Yemen

“We will not be complicit in what is happening in Yemen,” declared union leaders. On Monday, in protest against the western proxy powers behind the slaughter in Yemen, Italian union wor…

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Class

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“Appalachia is not poor, then, but its people are. They rarely own and scarcely benefit from the area’s wealth. Instead large, absentee, corporate land and coal owners do–increasingly multinational conglomerates which also own and deliver much of the rest of the energy of the nation and of the world. In 1965, Dun’s Review of Modern Business wrote, ‘for all their small numbers … these coal royalists hold what may be one of the most lucrative investments in all of America’, while a government-sponsored study also pointed out that despite the War on Poverty, about twice as much capital flowed out of Central Appalachia as into it in 1967 and entered ‘the financial markets centered around New York’ and other metropolitan centres. Not even in the energy boom of the 1970s, did the wealth produced from Appalachia go to its people.”

— John Gaventa, Power and Powerlessness: Quiescence and Rebellion in an Appalachian Valley (p. 35)

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Breastplate and bracelets of Amenemope

Hawk-shaped gold breastplate and bracelets, part of funerary objects of king Amenemope. Third Intermediate Period, 21st Dynasty, reign of Amenemope, ca. 1001-992 BC. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo.

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agc.

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