Literally What Happened In Episode 23

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Marsha P. Johnson (August 24, 1945 – July 6, 1992) was a trans activist, sex worker, drag queen, performer and survivor. Marsha went by “Black Marsha” before settling on Marsha P. Johnson. The “P” stood for “Pay It No Mind,” which is what Marsha would say sarcastically in response to questions about her gender. In connection with sex work, Johnson claimed to have been arrested over 100 times, and was also shot once in the late-1970s. She was a prominent figure in the Stonewall uprising of 1969 and was one of the first drag queens to go to the Stonewall Inn after they began allowing women and drag queens inside. It was previously a bar for only gay men. 

Following the Stonewall uprising, Johnson joined the Gay Liberation Front and participated in the first Christopher Street Liberation Pride rally on the first anniversary of the Stonewall rebellion in June 1970. One of Johnson’s most notable direct actions occurred in August 1970, staging a sit-in protest at Weinstein Hall at New York University alongside fellow GLF members after administrators canceled a dance when they found out was sponsored by gay organizations.

Shortly after that, along with Sylvia Rivera, she established the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR) in 1970 which was a group committed to supporting transgender youth experiencing homelessness in New York City. The two of them became a visible presence at gay liberation marches and other radical political actions. In 1973, Johnson and Rivera were banned from participating in the gay pride parade by the gay and lesbian committee who were administering the event stating they “weren’t gonna allow drag queens” at their marches claiming they were “giving them a bad name”. Their response was to march defiantly ahead of the parade. During a gay rights rally at New York City Hall in the early ‘70s, a reporter asked Johnson why the group was demonstrating, Johnson shouted into the microphone, “Darling, I want my gay rights now!”

In 1974, Marsha was photographed by Andy Warhol in a series called ‘Ladies and Gentleman’ where Andy took Polaroid photos of drag queens (photos above).

Susan Stryker, an associate professor of gender and women’s studies at the University of Arizona said, “Marsha P. Johnson could be perceived as the most marginalized of people – black, queer, gender-nonconforming, poor.” Still, Stryker noted, “You might expect a person in such a position to be fragile, brutalized, beaten down. Instead, Marsha had this joie de vivre, a capacity to find joy in a world of suffering. She channeled it into political action, and did it with a kind of fierceness, grace, and whimsy, with a loopy, absurdist reaction to it all.”

Marsha’s advocacy and contributions to the LGBTQ+ community are an important part of our history and should be celebrated. Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, both key figures in the gay liberation movement, will be honored with a permanent installation in Greenwich Village which should be completed by 2021.

Someone once told me to always live for 5 am sunrises and 5 pm sunsets, where you'll see colors in the sky that usually doesn't belong.

Live for the road trips and bike rides, with music in ears and wind in hair.

Live for the days when you're surrounded by your favourite people who make you realise that world is not a cold harsh place.

Live for the little things.

- A good old friend of mine.

I've been thinking about Nanami as Mr.Darcy so I made this. I think I will draw some scenes from the 2005 version.

I love the first season of atla

can someone hire me as a lighthouse keeper. my grip on reality is soooo stable and i will behave so normally under conditions of extreme isolation. and i promise i wont try to fuck the light

You ever just........... Wanna go off on an adventure....... Save a Prince/Princess from a tower............... Have a sword fight with your rival (get your head out of the gutter).................hhhhh fancy clothes and shiny armor.... Save people.....god I want to be a knight.

bisexual 🤝 lesbian solidarity 🏳️‍🌈

For everyone still saying Canada is better than the USA I would like to remind them of

The genocide of indigenous peoples

The awful treatmeant of indigenous peoples that still goes on today

The fact we had slaves and segregated schools (look up when the last one closed in Canada it will make you sick)

Speaking of awful schools look up when the last residential school closed in Canada. I dare you

The Chinese head tax

The use of Asian people to build things at a cheaper cost also while using them to do the dangerous jobs so white peoples didn’t have to die

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Children

Police brutality that regularly involves black, native, and afro-indigenous peoples

The Mosque attack, aka targeted attack on Muslim and Islamic peoples that was considered a terroist attack

Starlight tours -cough still happen today cough-

Quebec trying to remove any religious symbol in pubic except for catholic ones

The mistreatment of Jagmeet Singh during the last election him being called “a terroist”, “towel head”, and told to “go back where he came from”

Also during the election the Peoples Party, and Bloc making very bold and disgusting statements about how BIPOC, and LGBTQA+ people were disgusting and damaging Canada

Speaking of the Bloc the white French man to is the leader decided to vote down teaching about systematic racism in Canada. When Jagmeet Singh called the Bloc leader what he is, a racist, Jagmeet was then thrown out and the Bloc leader demanded an apology. 🙃

The lack of health care, and basic needs in rez’s which caused a mass suicide in one Rez along with how gross that treatment is

More with police, racial profiling of BIPOC, want to see someone talk about it Tracy from “The Social” talked about her son getting stopped when he was with his white friends (he’s balck) in Toronto and the cop harassing him

These are 16 points I can think of off the top of my head. Canada is not less racist it’s just good at hiding it.