Jessica and Caitlin are back! Fresh off a mini-summer break, they bring you the first half of a two-part series covering the lives of LGBTQ+ rights activists Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera.

Act 1: Breonna Taylor
Visit https://justiceforbreonna.org/ and click on "take action." 

Episode Sources:

Introduction

• "At Least 18 Transgender People Killed in 2020, Advocacy Group Says" by Erin Donaghue, CBS NEWS

Marsha P. Johnson

• NYT’s Overlooked on Marsha P. Johnson, written by Sewell Chan
• The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson, written by David France and Mark Blane, directed by David France (Available to watch on Netflix)
• “Podcast unearths earliest known recordings of trans icons Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera,” CBC Radio
• Pay It No Mind - The Life and Times of Marsha P. Johnson by Michael Kasino on YouTube
• “Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries”, Lavender & red, part 73, Workers World by Leslie Feinberg
• Marsha P. Johnson Institute
• Human Rights Campaign: “New Report on Youth Homeless Affirms that LGBTQ Youth Disproportionately Experience Homelessness”

Sylvia Rivera

• "Sylvia Rivera," Biography.com
• "Sylvia Rivera Changed Queer and Trans Activism Forever" by Elyssa Goodman, Them
• "Sylvia Rivera Was More Than Stonewall," CT Trans History and Archives
• "A Woman for Her Time" by Riki Wilchins, The Village Voice 
• "'I Have to Go Off': Activist Sylvia Rivera on Choosing to Riot at Stonewall," The Guardian

The Stonewall Uprising

• "An Amazing 1969 Account of the Stonewall Uprising" by Garance Frankie-Ruta, The Atlantic 
• "History Has Overlooked the Gay Liberation Front's Role in Stonewall...Until Now" by Mark Segal, LGBTQ Nation
• "The Stonewall You Know Is a Myth. And That's O.K." by Shane O'Neill, The New York Times
• "Two Transgender Activists Are Getting a Monument in New York" by Julia Jacobs, The New York Times