Aug 11, 2020
Did I forget I preordered this? Yes. Was it therefore a delightful surprise when it came? Also yes. @gaybreakfast #lgbtq #pride #queer #bipride #pin #thefirstpridewasariot https://www.instagram.com/p/CDxEgcWDsSr/?igshid=1uyuwmp6bn3wy
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Did I forget I preordered this? Yes. Was it therefore a delightful surprise when it came? Also yes. @gaybreakfast #lgbtq #pride #queer #bipride #pin #thefirstpridewasariot https://www.instagram.com/p/CDxEgcWDsSr/?igshid=1uyuwmp6bn3wy
Made a lil somethin for the neighborhood 💙💗🤍💗💙 #blm #thefirstpridewasariot (at Brandon, Vermont) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBiOc39hxZM/?igshid=1kmcjwjl57a66
The first pride was a peaceful protest that turned into a 5 day riot because the police tried to attack and arrest the protesters. Black trans women and other poc including Marsha P Johnson, Miss Major, and Silvia Rivera lead the lgbtq community to national recognition. It is no longer illegal to be LGBTQ. But to be black and trans puts you at highest risk of murder especially by cops. We must demand change. No freedom until we’re equal. No justice, no peace. Black lives matter. I won’t be posting for a while in order to amplify black voices. Listen to them. Love them. Donate to them. Support them. Include trans people in your support. Action items and links to donate in my story highlights. #BLM #blacklivesmatter #blacktranslivesmatter #thefirstpridewasariot #pridemonth #blackout #blackouttuesday https://www.instagram.com/p/CA6-Etsnf2x/?igshid=lnwobkjmvghc
The first Pride was a riot!!!!! 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 Marsha P. Johnson was a Transgender, Black woman with HIV and without her the rights that LGBTQAAI2S peoples have today wouldn’t have happened had she not fought against police brutality and worked tirelessly to help local members of the LGBTQ+ community. 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 As well as being a leader in LGBTQ protests and rallies, she was Marsha was a prominent figure in the Drag community. 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 Unfortunately cis gender LG members of the community actively worked to push Marsha and other people like her out of the conversation, thinking it’d be “too hard” to get for them to be seen like “everyone else” if they were present in all their glory! 😞🏳️🌈😞 Despite this, Marsha stayed in the community, marching, organizing and caring for friends who were swallowed up in the AIDS epidemic of the 80’s. 🖤🏳️🌈🖤 Despite all her involvement within the community and all the joy that she brought to a space, the police initially ruled her death (her body was found floating in the Hudson) and only after massive outcry and protests, was her death changed to “unexplained drowning”!!! 😞🖤🏳️🌈 As of 2012 the case was reopened and remains open!!!!! If you know ANYTHING that might lead to answers about Marshas death, please come forward!!!!! 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻 This piece will be available for purchase once I’ve heard back from the Marsha P. Johnson Institute about the process of donating the proceeds to them. 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 Follow me for updates about the piece and the auction/purchase process that will follow. 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 HAPPY PRIDE!!!!!!!!!! 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 #peacockore #rainbowwallhanging #stonewallwasariot #thefirstpridewasariot #happypride #bisexualwitch #knowyourhistory #blacktranslivesmatter #donate #marshapjohnson #marshapjohnsoninstitute #lgbtqpride #supportblackcreators #supportblacklivesmatter #supportblacklives #blacklgbtqlivesmatter #witchyvibes #healingjewelry #witchblr #instawitch #witchbiz #madeinbc #shoplocalcanada #locallymade #canadianmade #handmade #witchythings #witchywoman #spooniewitch #witch (at One Off Oddities) https://www.instagram.com/p/CB8716pplGe/?igshid=d145aus88s67
It's still June which means it's still Pride Month. I can't start talking about injustices and ignore other oppressed people! Found this great post by @lukeethornhill with a condensed version of the history of the gay rights movement. LGBTQIA is intertwined with Black Lives. . . . #thefirstpridewasariot #pridemonth #informative #lgbtqia #blm https://www.instagram.com/p/CBG_AVWDzNx/?igshid=rjtb4svhoqk9
This June, all profits from C.H. Williams Literary will be donated to these initiatives:
TRANS CULTURAL DISTRICT
The world’s first-ever legally recognized trans district, which aims to stabilize and economically empower the trans community. transgenderdistrictsf.com.
TRANS JUSTICE FUNDING PROJECT
Community-led funding initiative to support grassroots trans justice groups run by and for trans people. transjusticefundingproject.org.
Please go support these and other black-led LGBTQ+ initiatives.
Working on pieces for my upcoming women’s history show on Friday at @artuncorkeddowntown #marshapjohnson #stonewall #thefirstpridewasariot #transactivist #shero #restinpowermarshapjohnson #transisbeautiful🦋 (at Lewiston, Idaho) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9NSY2PpUI5/?igshid=3widy6b0uxe3
Had an absolute blast @brightonprideofficial! Here’s to #loveisahumanright and #thefirstpridewasariot 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 (at Brighton Hove Beach) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0y8w-ZhpAW/?igshid=1uldpk67yhlei