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.

links:

SYLVIA RIVERA 10 YEAR MEMORIAL

 SYLVIA GOES TO COLLEGE & STAR TAKES OVER NYU

SYLVIA RIVERA & NYPD REFLECT ON STONEWALL REBELLION

STAR PEOPLE ARE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE

RAPPING WITH MARSHA P JOHNSON

STAR TREK: SYLVIA & STAR HOUSE LEAVE THE LOWER EAST SIDE

YOU GOTTA KEEP FIGHTING GIRLIE CAUSE ITS NOT TIME TO CROSS THE RIVER JORDAN!

MARKET THIS

SYLVIA RIVERA, JULIA MURRAY & RANDY WICKER LOOKING FABULOUS AT UPLIFT LIGHTING

TEN POSTS FOR SYLVIA RIVERA’S TEN YEAR MEMORIAL

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. )