Sylvia Rivera, born on July 2 in 1951, was a Latina American queer rights activist, member of the Gay Liberation Front, and community worker from the state of New York.
Rivera, who identified as a "half-sister", participated in demonstrations with the Gay Liberation Front. With her close friend Marsha P. Johnson, Rivera co-founded the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR), a socialist group dedicated to helping homeless young drag queens, gay youth, and trans women.
At different times in her life, Rivera battled substance abuse and lived on the streets, largely in the gay homeless community at the Christopher Street docks. Her experiences made her more focused on advocacy for those who, in her view, mainstream society and the assimilationist factions of the LGBT community were leaving behind.
Rivera died during the dawn hours of February 19th, 2002, at St. Vincent's Hospital, of complications from liver cancer. Activist Riki Wilchins said this of her: "In many ways, Sylvia was the Rosa Parks of the modern transgender movement, a term that was not even coined until two decades after Stonewall".
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Remember the radicalism of Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P Johnson
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βOur armies are rising:β Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson
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God I love the Catachan shortsword, it was meant to be a sweepy slashy crowd control weapon but ever since they upped it's parry damage I've been using it as a dueling weapon against elites. Feels good as a ranged class to get charged by a double axe-wielding chem-filled berserker and calmly decapitate him with some tightly timed parries. You do have to keep calm though, and not mash. It's a really engaging challenge for me right now, and I'm wondering what else you can parry. In my Samurai Jack arc rn.I also love that the new update added bolt pistols, and that you can shoot while punching it into enemies. Luv me a good shoot-punch, especially when it disappears a poxwalker's torso into a cloud of snot and maggots as it's legs flop comically to the floor.
Pic related, get parried dickhead
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You using Devil Claw IV? That was my go-to best in slot weapon on my veteran for a long time, till I got a (more-or-less) perfect power sword to replace it with. Love the H1 downward strike, and parry is so good like you said.I actually think the stun batons or whatever they're called are the most fun/best weapons in the new update.
Play any grenade gauntlet Ogryn?
Yeah, that's the name I was looking for. I'm still getting the hang of the slower timing on the batons
And yeah I got an ogryn in the likeness of Lenny Guvna McLean
It helps if you can use it on a build that gives you +melee speed. I am using it with a Zarona (I think is the fan-fire revolver) and the veteran's weapon specialist skills so it feels like a dream, though I haven't tested it on zealot yet. Nor have I decided on a favorite between the two.
hell yeah