When translated from binary, the text reads:
"The gender binary is bullshit. There is absolutely no "biological" truth to the concept of a gender binary. Please get over yourself. My gender is my own business, you don't get to have an opinion about it. My genitals are none of your concern, unless we're fucking. And if we're fucking, we probably don't need to have this conversation. I'm just trying to make this goddamn flesh prison as comfortable as possible. Stop making my life harder."
Marsha P. Johnson and the brick heard around the queer world! With art by the amazing Valentine Barker (www.valentinebarker.com), this shirt celebrates the history that we sometimes forget, that trans ladies of color started the modern LGBTQIA+ rights movement. Mostly by throwing bricks.
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marsha, marsha johnson, valentine barker, trans rights, brick
Sylvia Rivera was a Latinix pioneer of the Gay & Transgender Rights movement. A bisexual, transgender, drag queen; Sylvia began her activism with the Civil Rights Movement. After being one of the first to take a stand at the Stonewall Riots, she continued into co-founding STAR (which worked to help homeless queer youth) and AIDS Activism.
Andrea Rosales produced this portrait for us as part of our Heroes & Inspirations project.
