"Still at the back of the bus": Sylvia Rivera's struggle
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| contents | "Still at the back of the bus": Sylvia Rivera's struggle Jessi Gan Sociología gay Stonewall community Sylvia Rivera street queen Recent U.S. transgender politics has increasingly invokedthe history of Sylvia Rivera, the Puerto Rican/Venezuelantransgender activist who fought at the 1969 Stonewall riots.Although her life narrative helped transgender movementsdemand accountability from gay political institutions, themovements, working within a liberal multicultural logic ofrecognition, sometimes elided the multiple axes of herintersectional situatedness. Drawing upon an extendedsketch of the contours of Riveras life, I argue that hercontextual political praxis, informed by her lifeexperiences, both resisted and provisionally endorsed thoseuses. For example, she strategically deployed identitycategories while simultaneously resisting reductivedefinition. My essay argues that Rivera, animated by ethicsof accountability to her children and of inclusive love,remained committed to an expansive view of the project ofsocial justice. 2007 artículo científico 1538-6279 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=37719107 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=377 Centro Journal application/pdf The City University of New York Centro Journal (Estados Unidos de América) Num.1 Vol.XIX |
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| spellingShingle | "Still at the back of the bus": Sylvia Rivera's struggle Jessi Gan Sociología gay Stonewall community Sylvia Rivera street queen "Still at the back of the bus": Sylvia Rivera's struggle Jessi Gan Sociología gay Stonewall community Sylvia Rivera street queen Recent U.S. transgender politics has increasingly invokedthe history of Sylvia Rivera, the Puerto Rican/Venezuelantransgender activist who fought at the 1969 Stonewall riots.Although her life narrative helped transgender movementsdemand accountability from gay political institutions, themovements, working within a liberal multicultural logic ofrecognition, sometimes elided the multiple axes of herintersectional situatedness. Drawing upon an extendedsketch of the contours of Riveras life, I argue that hercontextual political praxis, informed by her lifeexperiences, both resisted and provisionally endorsed thoseuses. For example, she strategically deployed identitycategories while simultaneously resisting reductivedefinition. My essay argues that Rivera, animated by ethicsof accountability to her children and of inclusive love,remained committed to an expansive view of the project ofsocial justice. 2007 artículo científico 1538-6279 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=37719107 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=377 Centro Journal application/pdf The City University of New York Centro Journal (Estados Unidos de América) Num.1 Vol.XIX |
| title | "Still at the back of the bus": Sylvia Rivera's struggle |
| topic | Sociología gay Stonewall community Sylvia Rivera street queen |
| url | https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=37719107 |