Star Gays: The Queer Astrology Archives Podcast

Episode 2: Sylvia Rivera

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Happy Cancer Season! On this episode of Star Gays we are going to do a deep dive into the chart of activist Sylvia Rivera. Rivera was a gay liberation and transgender rights activist as well as community organizer in New York City in the years immediately following the Stonewall riots. We talk about Sylvia’s Cancer Sun and the archetype of the mother, we look at her Sun Uranus conjunction as both revolutionary and divisive, and we explore how that Mars-Saturn-Chiron T-square tells a painful but important story. (And more!!) Please subscribe to and rate the show! Thanks for listening! You can find me on Instagram @ellyhigginsastro and Twitter @ehastrology. Link to Sylvia Rivera’s chart: https://www.astro.com/astro-databank/Rivera,_Sylvia Links to sources used: https://transreads.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/2021-07-15_60f0aa51e7765_sylvia-rivera-sylvia-riveras-talk-at-lgmny-june-2001-lesbian-and-gay-community-services-center-new-york-city-3.pdf https://www.nyhistory.org/blogs/gay-power-is-trans-history-street-transvestite-action-revolutionaries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_Liberation_Front https://makinggayhistory.com/podcast/sylvia-rivera-part-2/ https://gaycitynews.com/exploding-the-myths-of-stonewall/ https://znetwork.org/zmagazine/sylvia-rivera-1951-2002-by-michael-bronski/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_Transvestite_Action_Revolutionaries https://www.workers.org/2006/us/lavender-red-73/ https://www.queerbible.com/queerbible/2017/10/8/interview-sylvia-rivera-by-leslie-feinberg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Rivera https://www.biography.com/activists/marsha-p-johnson-sylvia-rivera-friendship https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWwD_D0Guhs (Sylvia Rivera 20 min doc) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI2bxUSRF7I (”I gave them their pride”) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb-JIOWUw1o (Y'all better quiet down) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employment_Non-Discrimination_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equality_Act_(United_States) https://www.nyclgbtsites.org/site/transy-house/ https://zagria.blogspot.com/2015/10/bebe-scarpinato-1951-activist-teacher.html https://zagria.blogspot.com/2017/03/bubbles-rose-lee-194-activist.html#.XRGJndNKhE4 Dean Spade - Normal Life Dean Spade - Mutual Aid