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Stormé DeLarverie, born on December 24th in 1920, was a biracial queer icon whose reported scuffle with police was the spark that ignited the Stonewall Riots in 1969. She is sometimes referred to as the "Rosa Parks of the gay community" or "Rosa Parks of Stonewall".

DeLarverie was born in New Orleans to a black mother and a white father, and spent the 50s and 60s as a "male impersonator" in the Jewel Box Revue, the period's only racially integrated drag troupe. Her gender-bending style of zoot suits and black ties was groundbreaking for the era.

On June 28th, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, New York City, a scuffle broke out when a woman, believed to be Stormé, was roughly escorted from the door of the bar to the waiting police wagon. The woman fought with at least four of the police, swearing and shouting, for about ten minutes. When she shouted to the bystanders "Why don't you guys do something?", the crowd began rioting and clashed with police.

"It was a rebellion, it was an uprising, it was a civil rights disobedience - it wasn’t no damn riot."

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A Brief History of Stormé DeLarverie, Stonewall’s Suiting Icon

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

depriving me of hexbear in my time of need oooaaaaaaauhhh

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

My Sister in law got a black dog this year, so I’ve been teaching the nieces and nephews about El Negro Matapacos since they look alike.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

tfw maxed out my Inland Empire stat 👁️

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

No matter how hard I try, I will NEVER be a Half Life 1 scientist. Why even bother? doomer

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

so what's up with carbonated drinks? Do people actually enjoy them? Because they feel incredibly unpleasant in my mouth

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

stuck in a train > stuck in a traffic jam

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Zero potential for a murder mystery when stuck in traffic. Potential for murder, but it won't be a mystery

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

We have 800 online users meow-fiesta

i think the update is counting lurkers now

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Just heard the song "White Christmas", when I was younger I would have joked that the song is about white supremacy but now when I hear it the only interpretation that comes to mind is that it's about climate change taking away all the snow.

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Adventures of an Amazon delivery driver

Today's episode: I didn't work christmas eve

I got a text yesterday asking if I wanted to pick up a shift three hours after I got it and I had already made commitments to sleep in this morning. But I just got a text right now that I can't fucking believe this is how the biggest fuck you monopoly in the country operates.

So for the second time in a row and 100% of the pay periods I've worked here, today, fucking christmas eve, I get a text saying that all my punches are empty and I need to personally fill out a form for each day of the last two weeks for both clocking in and out for the day and for my lunch break. 40 data entry forms. By the end of the night or I don't get my paycheck.

And I guess I'm just supposed to fucking guess when I clocked out each night. And if I misremember and say I worked 3 hours of overtime each night, what? They double check the paper record they told me to fill my time in every day just so this wouldn't happen?

How the fuck is this my responsibility?? Why the fuck are they asking me to work off the clock?? Are they going to let me input an hour of work tonight??

This is fucking dog shit.

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

i just finished reading David Harvey's "Anti-Capitalist Chronicles", which ended on some chapters reflecting on the COVID-19 pandemic written during the pandemic. Overall, I thought it was good read, and I think it revealed a lot of new learnings from Marx for me, but the last few chapters linking capital and its future to COVID left me feeling really doomer.

Like, I remember believing so strongly that revolutionary change was possible in 2020. These last chapters shared a similar, optimistic tone to the one I had. Harvey, writing about a post-pandemic future in 2020, described different ways that society could be restructured to benefit the working class, and how in some ways COVID-19 proved that those changes were possible.

But now, three years later, nothing has really changed, at least not for the better. In many ways, things feel way more grim now. Revolutionary change feels as unlikely as ever (though seeing the strong support for Palestine and rejection of 'business as usual' Western imperialism gives me some hope). The massive collective calls for radical change of 2020, which were so loud they could not be ignored by mainstream culture feel almost completely forgotten, like a fever dream.

I'm also reading Mark Fisher's Ghosts of My Life, and his writings about "lost futures" and hauntology really resonate with me, and I think that feeling of having a better future *stolen *by capital is how I feel, both in general and in reaction to finishing Harvey's book.

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

cw: kinda gross?popped a huge pimple on my back that had been giving me shit for months. had to get it between my fingers like a kumquat and squeeze the fuck out of it and it actually exploded multiple times in spectacular fashion. idk but i needed to tell someone.

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

I'm not feeling my best.

I don't have my ADHD meds, but will likely get them back in a few days.

So my apologies if my posts here are not at their tip-top shape.

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Yes libs may oversell the WW1 Christmas truce but IT'S NICE OKAY

They stopped shelling each other to enjoy a day of normal human things and I maintain that it is NOT, in fact, cringe to like remembering it at xmas

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Had a gay christmas miracle! Me n my bf went dancing and the bartender gave us drinks for free because she liked our outfits lol.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

New man made horror brought to you by my doctor 😎

Ima take this with a grain of salt, but she said that there was once some medical literature indicating that this Fortune 500 company contributed to an increase in carcinogens and autoimmune diseases in an area and subsequently covered up that literature

On one hand, this almost sounds like a fantastical claim, but considering the inhumane measures capitalists have gone to historically, I wouldn’t at all be surprised if it were true

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

This is a pretty well known phenomenon. These companies also tend to set up their plants in minority communities soo hitler-detector

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Bit idea: "They're turning Christmas songs WOKE by adding the word gay!"

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

It's beginning to look a lot like Pissmas

Yellow in the snow

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Straight guys can be so gay when trying to be straight. If they allow themselves to answer the question "what male actors do you find attractive", they'll answer Brad Pitt and it'll be socially acceptable to them. Answer Timothy Chalamet and you're gay. You can't be attracted to the most feminine male actor, that's gay, if you love handsome muscular men you're straight.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Hosted a hotspot for someone so they can message their friend. Weird new level of "can i use your phone". Also kids these days literally don't have eachother's numbers that rocks

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

🎵 hello sexuality crisis my old friend 🎵

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Theres a thing westerners do where they begin referring to all Muslims as whatever ethnic group is currently kicking their ass. Like Saracens/Arabs or Turks, which is super fun when reading about history of whatever era, because you'll have a bunch of people talking about that time a Dutch guy kidnapped a bunch of Icelanders to sell them to Italians and Amazigh people as "The Turkish Raids"

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Not gonna waste my Christmas browsing the internet so here's a an early Nadolig Llawen to all my comrades.

I love you all. cat-trans

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

I'm tired of seeing "geolocate". You're just dressing up the word "locate". I just saw someone refer to Serbia's "geolocation". What a farce!

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

I do NOT like change. software/websites should never be updated.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

It's been pretty interesting to see Matt post through his post-stroke recovery. It's a little back and forth, but he does seem to be getting more intelligible over time. None of my business whether he's just a poster and therefore posts or if this is an intentional part of rebuilding language skills, but it's a cool window into how that process of language recovery works and presents.

All the best to our large adult dad.

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

My father is a massive ex-convict hillbilly. He basically looks like a pro wrestling bad guy in the presteroids era, although he's certainly not a stranger to steroids. But he's a rough person.

One thing I find really endearing about him is that he gets such a kick out of those like really funny flamboyant gay guys. Like, he asked me one time, "you ever seen that drag queen show? It's hilarious."

I guess just the archetypes make it funnier, always a surprise.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Friendship ended with penne, curly fettuccini is my new best friend

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

after replacing my fucked up firefox profule i can now peruse our wonderful gorgeous emoticons again maxwell for months i thought it was a provlem with my internet

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

I've been consistently seeing a whole lot of migratory birds flying north here in southern Ontario. In December. To my non-biologist science-layperson mind, that doesn't seem right.

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