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Author(s): Lisa Beard Date: 2024 Format: pdf Language: English ISBN/ASIN: 0197517323   Pages: 240 OCR: Quality: ISBN13:   Uploader: alex21s Upload Date: 10/13/2023 8:33:30 AM       To download click on link in the Links Table below                                                                        Description: Click to see full description In June 1973, amid ideological rifts in the U.S. gay liberation movement, thousands of people gathered in New York City's Washington Square Park to commemorate the fourth anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion. Partway through the rally, Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR) co-founder Sylvia Rivera fought her way to the stage to address the predominantly white, middle class lesbian and gay crowd. Over the din of their boos and jeers, Rivera reprimanded the crowd for failing in their responsibilities to their "gay brothers and sisters" in jail, detailed the sacrifices she had made for the movement, and called them into the politics of STAR, "The people who are trying to do something for all of us and not men and women that belong to a white middle class white club! And that is what you all belong to!" Rivera's appeal thus worked through a push-pull of distance and belonging, shaming the movement for its assimilatory turn while invoking forms of kinship and calling her listeners into an expansive multi-issue liberation politics. How does a sense of intimacy call people into political community? Read more Links Table     Title Link Password Size (MB) Thank to Inform Admin 3206165 Book https://nitroflare.com/view/509280111E3B...   0.00 alex21s Tags: Appeals Identification Intimate Political Race Were Title Link Password Size Reason Dead link New format   Those who downloaded this book also downloaded the following books: Comments New comment:

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