#martha p johnson

[little-desi-historian]

Black Historical Figures I think are cool af!

Happy Black History Month! Below the cut you’ll find a list of 10 black historical figures I think are super cool (and often overlooked in favour of their white/non-black counterparts) all of the figures are inspirational to me in some way and I think anyone can learn from their examples, regardless of race.

Dido Elizabeth Belle aka Dido Belle Lindsay - staying the course of your beliefs, knowing you deserve better. Knowing what’s right is more than possible.

Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-George(s) - don’t let anyone take your talents and passions from you. Those who treat you wrong don’t deserve you.

Phillis Weatly/Phyllis Weatly - no matter what you’ve been subjected to, don’t let anyone take your voice from you.

James Armistead Lafayette - fight (spy) for what you believe in. You may turn out to be the most powerful piece in the fight.

Harriet Tubman - no matter the evils of the world, there are good people out there, don’t forget your strengths and allies.

Freda Josephine Baker (née McDonald) best known simply as Josephine Baker - dance and keep dancing, no matter how bad things are. You only live once.

Bessie Coleman - pursue your dreams no matter who tells you that you can’t. You may match them in renown yet.

Gladys Bentley - wear what you want, speak how you want, and love whomever you choose.

Martha P. Johnson - be here, be queer, and speak truth to power.

Maya Angelou born Marguerite Annie Johnson - write, write, write, oh… and don’t fear life.

#meerathehistorian #black history month #black history month 2024 #black history #queer history #black lives matter #dido elizabeth belle #joseph bologne #chevalier St Georges #history #phillis wheatley #american revolution #James Armistead Lafayette #harriet tubman #josephine baker #bessie coleman #gladys bentley #Martha p Johnson #maya angelou #queer #lgbtq+ #bisexual #lesbian

[anpmalies]

pay it no mind

A marta p. johnson tribute, happy pride month!

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#pride #digital art #pride month #pride art #Martha p johnson #artists on tumblr #kygdraws

[boredomdlux]

⏪ earth neighborhood fam <3 sylvia rivera 👑🪷🏳️‍⚧️ && martha p johnson 👑🪷🏳️‍⚧️ ⚖️💖✊🏽.

#sylvia rivera #martha p johnson #universoul fam

[lucifers-simp]

I know we usually do this kinda post during pride month but every month is pride month when you're gay so...

Reminder that if you're queer and you enjoy any of the rights you have, you must be grateful for trans and gnc people of color that were in the frontlines of the fighting

Love to all genderqueer people

#and that is an international truth #Martha P. Johnson was reported getting on top of a lamppost with a sack of bricks just to better throw them at the cop's cars #queer pride #queerness #queer #genderqueer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #lgbtq community #lesbian #gay #bisexual #trans #🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

[nyxiewixie]

Guys I’m so upset the MPJ & Sylvia R. shirt wasn’t at the pride section in my target and I really wanted it😔😔

#pride #target #Martha p Johnson #pride merch

[lilacsupernova]

In recent years, I've seen the erasure of lesbian and gay activists. And all the work we did for gay liberation is credited to two people: Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson. Even statues are planned to be elected in honor of them in New York. These two are now hailed for having organized the Stonewall Riot and the GLF [Gay Liberation Front] and even the historic gay occupation of Wernstein Hall at New York University in protest against the administration's homophobia. All of this is false. I know, because I and the women and men I worked with were there.

Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson are today widely celebrated as transgender people of color. However, Rivera identified as a transvestite male, not transgender. Malcolm, aka Marsha Johnson, was a self-proclaimed gay man, and drag queen, up until his death in 1992. Johnson deserves to be honored with respect and integrity, not rebranded as a 'trans-woman' postmortem. Johnson was probably transgender, though there was no such terminology at the time. Toward the end of his life he was considering raising funds to go abroad for what was then called a sex change surgery.

Nobody led the Stonewall Riots. It was a spontaneous uprising. Neither Rivera nor Johnson appeared on the scene until the riots were well underway. Neither Johnson nor Rivera attended any of the early meetings of GLF in July 1969. I was one of the founders, along with five other women and 13 men. Ellen Broidy and I were among those who called for the occupation of Wernstein Hall in September 1970. Johnson and Rivera were not present. They joined in after a group of us had already entered the building, and it was after the occupation that I first noticed them at GLF meetings. They were inspired by our Wernstein Hall action to start a new group, Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR).

This was important work they did and how they should be remembered. Through STAR, Rivera and Johnson labored on behalf of homeless street queens who, like themselves, often had to support themselves through prostitution, often strove to overcome drug addiction, and often found themselves in trouble with the law. They provided shelter and counseling, and visited those in prison. They were heroes in their own right. But the false legends have been widely promulgated in the international press, and give them credit for the work of hundreds of others, and never ever mention what they actually accomplished. The city of New York has not built any statues to any of us lesbians or any of the gay men who were involved in GLF. Just those two are the heroes. Stormé DeLarverie who is considered responsible for starting the first Stonewall Riot on June 28, 1969, after a crowd reacted when she was arrested by police, was a woman of color and and butch lesbian. She didn't get a statue either.

These smaller fabrications are perhaps not as dangerous as the ones that lead to war. But what is dangerous is that, by depicting one or two chosen individuals as great leaders and expunging the rest of us from public memory, they strip us all of the knowledge that we ordinary human beings have made history and can do so again.

– Martha Shelley, 'An Honest History' in Not Dead Yet: Feminism, passion and women's liberation – Renate Klein & Susan Hawthorne (eds.), (pp. 379-80).

#martha shelley #marsha p johnson #sylvia rivera #storme delarverie #lgb #pride #usa #herstory #pride month #trans

[perenlop]

anyways on a lighter note, im gonna go on the hunt for stonewall riot protestor and lgbtq rights movement memoirs, and lgbtq people who grew up around that time period in general because of a school project i want to propose (but still may do as a personal project later on anyways if it gets denied, which i don’t think it will considering what i’ve been told)

anyone have any recommendations?

#i will take memoirs from anyone who participated and will be looking for them regardless #but since the idea i have focuses on lesbians; bi women; trans women transfems nonbinary people etc #id love to see memoirs from those perspectives #im already ordering stonewall; the riots that sparked the gay revolution #and im gonna see if i can find books written on martha p johnson and storme delarverie #echoed voice #also no im not relying on tumblr for this LSKDFJSKLDF just figured since im mutuals w a lot of readers id ask #i assure u all of my actual research will be done on legitimate websites and i will put in the work to find everything #just wanted to know if there were more obscure ones or interesting reads anyone came across

[perfectalpacacollector-f543cd03]

When Is a Homestead Claim Not a Homestead Claim? Emperor Jones' Land Claim

Here's my latest blog about Emperor Jones who purchased Pre-emption land in Suwannee County, FL, in 1885

When searching the Bureau of Land Management records for information on African American Homesteaders in Section 12, in Township 25, in Suwannee County, Florida, where my great grandfather Randel Farnell lived, I discovered that one name, Emperor Jones, had not been granted his claim based on the Homestead Act of 1862. He had been granted a claim based on the Pre-Emption Act of 1841.[1] This act…

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#Abner Roberson Creekmore #Bright Jones #Emperor Jones #Freedman&039;s Bank Records #James P Green #Jerry Fulcher #Louisa Ferguson #Madison L Johnson #Maria Jones #Martha Washington Fulcher #Pre-Emption Act of 1841 #St Johns Island SC #Suwannee County Florida #USCT #Venus Jones #William Butler Telford

[violet-lavender-fem]

i feel like it says a lot about what people truly think of trans women when they see a man in a dress (martha p. johnson), who repeatedly identified himself as a gay man, and call him a trans women

they just hate feminists for saying the quiet part out loud

#pride #martha p. johnson #stonewall

[sapphicreadsdb]

Hi do you by chance have any sapphic fantasy recs? preferably adult fantasy but YA is fine too

sure! tho this could will get quite long... no links, sorry!, bc it was kicking up a fuss with those for some reason

+ = ya

pennyblade by j.l. worrad

lady hotspur by tessa gratton

sofi and the bone song by adrienne tooley (+)

she who became the sun by shelley parker chan

the scapegracers by h.a. clarke (+)

the third daughter by adrienne tooley (+)

the daughters of izdihar by hadeer elsbai

the malevolent seven by sebastien de castell

blackheart knights by laure eve

the warden by daniel m. ford

the unbroken by c.l. clark

dark earth by rebecca stott

witch king by martha wells

scorpica by g.r. macallister

the mirror empire by kameron hurley

now she is witch by kirsty logan

silverglass by j.f. rivkin

the woman who loved the moon and other stories by elizabeth a. lynn

...(this answer is how i discover there's a character limit per block so. doing this in chunks.)

fire logic by laurie j. marks

a restless truth by freya marske

when angels left the old country by sacha lamb (+)

the traitor baru cormorant by seth dickinson

an archive of brightness by kelsey socha

the bladed faith by david dalglish

the winged histories by sofia samatar

dragonoak by sam farren

the forever sea by joshua phillip johnson

into the broken lands by tanya huff

the jasmine throne by tasha suri

daughter of redwinter by ed mcdonald

the last magician by lisa maxwell (+)

the fire opal mechanism by fran wilde

...

the black coast by mike brooks

high times in the low parliament by kelly robson

foundryside by robert jackson bennett

the enterprise of death by jesse bullington

mamo by sas milledge (+)

from dust, a flame by rebecca podos (+)

uncommon charm by emily bergslien & kat weaver

wild and wicked things by francesca may

the unspoken name by a.k. larkwood

brother red by adrian selby

the final strife by saara el-arifi

way of the argosi by sebastien de castell (+)

the bone shard daughter by andrea stewart

ghost wood song by erica waters (+)

into the crooked place by alexandra christo (+)

ashes of the sun by django wexler

the midnight girls by alicia jasinska (+)

the midnight lie by marie rutkoski (+)

the never tilting world by rin chupeco (+)

water horse by melissa scott

...

a master of djinn by p. djeli clark

the good luck girls by charlotte nicole davis (+)

among thieves by m.j. kuhn

black water sister by zen cho

the velocity of revolution by marshall ryan maresca

sweet & bitter magic by adrienne tooley (+)

the dark tide by alicia jasinska (+)

the library of the unwritten by a.j. hackwith

a dark and hollow star by ashley shuttleworth (+)

the chosen and the beautiful by nghi vo

the councillor by e.j. beaton

these feathered flames by alexandra overy (+)

the factory witches of lowell by c.s. malerich

fireheart tiger by aliette de bodard

...

city of lies by sam hawke

bestiary by k-ming chang

the raven and the reindeer by t. kingfisher

the winter duke by claire eliza bartlett (+)

master of poisons by andrea hairston

the empress of salt and fortune by nghi vo

night flowers shirking from the light of the sun by li xing

down comes the night by allison saft (+)

wench by maxine kaplan (+)

girls made of snow and glass by melissa bashardoust (+)

girls of paper and fire by natasha ngan (+)

the impossible contract by k.a. doore

burning roses by s.l. huang

the house of shattered wings by aliette de bodard

not for use in navigation by iona datt sharma

weak heart by ban gilmartin

girl, serpent, thorn by melissa bashardoust (+)

the devil's blade by mark alder

...

we set the dark on fire by tehlor kay mejia (+)

the true queen by zen cho

moontangled by stephanie burgis

a portable shelter by kirsty logan

sing the four quarters by tanya huff

all the bad apples by moira fowley doyle (+)

the drowning eyes by emily foster

the priory of the orange tree by samantha shannon

miranda in milan by katharine duckett

the afterward by e.k. johnston (+)

thorn by anna burke

penhallow amid passing things by iona datt sharma

in the vanishers' palace by aliette de bodard

summer of salt by katrina leno (+)

the gracekeepers by kirsty logan

out of the blue by sophie cameron (+)

black wolves by kate elliott

the circle by sara b. elfgren & mats strandberg (+)

unspoken by sarah rees brennan (+)

thistlefoot by gennarose nethercott

passing strange by ellen klages

(and breathe)

#recs #q

[augustinajosefina]

A request

Please suggest books to me! Preferably in the glove kink/lesbian space atrocities, urban fantasy or dark academia genres but I'll happily try any SF/fantasy at least once.

So far I've read and loved:

Before 2023

The Imperial Radch (Ancillary Justice/Sword/Mercy) - Ann Leckie

Jean le Flambeur (The Quantum Thief/The Fractal Prince/The Causal Angel) - Hannu Rajaniemi

The Windup Girl/The Water Knife - Paolo Bagicalupi

Memory of Water/The City of Woven Streets - Emmi Itäranta

2023

The Locked Tomb (Gideon/Harrow/Nona the Ninth) - Tamsyn Muir

The Masquerade (Traitor/Monster/Tyrant Baru Cormorant) - Seth Dickinson

Teixcalaan series (A Memory Called Empire/A Desolation Called Peace) - Arkady Martine

Machineries of Empire (Ninefox Gambit/Raven Stratagem/Revenant Gun/Hexarchate Stories) - Yoon Ha Lee

The Murderbot Diaries (All Systems Red to System Collapse) - Martha Wells

The Broken Earth (The Fifth Season/The Obelisk Gate/The Stone Sky) - N. K. Jemisin

Klara And The Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro

Xuya universe (The Citadel of Weeping Pearls/The Tea Master and the Detective/Seven of Infinities plus short stories) - Aliette de Bodard

This is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

The Goblin Emperor/The Witness for the Dead/Grief of Stones - Katherine Addison

Some Desperate Glory - Emily Tesh

2024

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue - V. E. Schwab

The Craft Sequence (Three Parts Dead/Two Serpents Rise/Full Fathom Five/Last First Snow/Four Roads Cross/Ruin of Angels) - Max Gladstone

Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution - R. F. Kuang

The Luminous Dead - Caitlin Starling

Last Exit - Max Gladstone

Dead Country - Max Gladstone

Read and liked:

The Moonday Letters - Emmi Itäranta

Great Cities (The City We Became/The World We Make) - N. K. Jemisin

Piranesi - Susanna Clarke

Autonomous - Annalee Newitz

Dead Djinn universe (A Master of Djinn/The Haunting of Tram Car 015/A Dead Djinn in Cairo/The Angel of Khan el-Khalili) - P. Djèlí Clark

Even Though I Knew the End - C. L. Polk

Station Eternity - Mur Lafferty

The Mythic Dream - Dominik Parisien & Navah Wolfe

Shades of Magic (A Darker Shade of Magic/A Gathering of Shadows/A Conjuring of Light/Fragile Threads of Power) - V. E. Schwab

The Stars Are Legion - Kameron Hurley

Ninth House/Hell Bent - Leigh Bardugo

Machine - Elizabeth Bear

Our Wives Under the Sea - Julia Armfield

Was uncertain about:

Light From Uncommon Stars - Ryka Aoki

The Kaiju Preservation Society - John Scalzi

Paladin's Grace - T. Kingfisher

The House in the Cerulean Sea - TJ Klune

In the Vanishers Palace - Aliette de Bodard

And read and disliked:

To Be Taught, if Fortunate - Becky Chambers

A Psalm for the Wild-Built - Becky Chambers

The Priory of the Orange Tree - Samantha Shannon

The Calculating Stars - Mary Robinette Kowal

The Space Between Worlds - Micaiah Johnson

How High We Go in the Dark - Sequoia Nagamatsu

Shadow and Bone - Leigh Bardugo

(My pride insists I add that I have, in fact, read other books as well. Just to be clear.)

#books #lesbian space atrocities #imperial radch #ann leckie #locked tomb series #the masquerade #baru cormorant #seth dickinson #teixcalaan series #arkady martine #machineries of empire #yoon ha lee #the murderbot diaries #martha wells #broken earth trilogy #nk jemisin #tamsyn muir #this is how you lose the time war #the goblin emperor #katherine addison #aliette de bodard #annalee newitz #paolo bagicalupi #some desperate glory #emily tesh #hannu rajaniemi #a master of djinn #p djeli clark #max gladstone #craft sequence

[xxxjarchiexxx]

subtitlebuoy | flowers at your feet by texas isaiah | something that may shock and discredit you by daniel mallory ortberg | Martha P. Johnson and friends ph. Randy Wicker | transsexual-menace | autoneurotic

#something something trans joy #web weaving #trans pride

[im-tempted]

I wish there was a funnier way to talk about my experience being queer around my coworkers

Because I don't want to come off all... yk but

Today my coworker told me she's a huge fan of Martha p Johnson she doesn't think aro people really COUNT as gay and she doesn't understand why you'd use more than one set of pronouns

I'm thinking about making myself tea

I got a fun new sweater today

I'm very tired

#I'm... im very tired #i think thats all i can say about this #im tired #adam fucking around #tw homophobia

[autisticlancemcclain]

“Homosexuality is a joke. A scam, even. What is this abundance of tender longing? This sea of yearning? Martha P. Johnson did not throw a brick at a cop for me to be completely consumed by the thought of a man’s smile! This is ridiculous! He doesn’t even see me as his equal, and I want to capture the sun so he is never again left alone in the dark! Preposterous! In fact, I’d go as far as to say that homosexuality itself is homophobic! I am being hatecrimed! How dare this man affect me in this way! How dare I be so easily affected! It is disgusting! Revolting! Where is my self respect? Does it lie at his feet? It’s like feminism didn’t even happen! I am horrified with myself —“

Hunk, ever the supportive friend, patted his shoulder. “There, there,” he said. “One day, you might even get over him!”

Lance scoffed. “It has been four and a half years, Hunk. I am doomed to hear his name when someone speaks of love for the rest of my miserable existence. Doomed, I tell you.”

Hunk coughed to hide a laugh. He couldn’t wait to tell Keith all about this shit when they got married.

#lance is in love with keith and he’s so over it #also. keith absolutely does see lance as his equal lance is just dramatic and wants to complain #vld #voltron #lance #lance mcclain #hunk #hunk garrett #klance #keith #keith kogane #well he’s mentioned so #pining lance #lance is down BAD #my writing #fic fragment #hunk & lance

[tea-with-evan-and-me]

"Emma is a full on ally" LMAOOOO yeah Im sure she was besties with Martha P. Johnson

emma literally invented gay rights idk what that user was talking about

[literaticat]

I’ve seen this question around Twitter a lot: “Why are you the person to write this story?” followed by a lot of discourse about how certain people are only allowed to write certain things. I’d love to hear your thoughts on this! Say you’re writing a middle grade about a haunted house and you’ve never lived in a haunted house yourself nor are you a realtor for your day job. Does that make you unqualified to write a haunted house middle grade? Thanks for taking the time, Jenn!

I can't tell if this is a bad-faith question or not. Ha ha. Welp. Let's pretend it's not for a moment.

People might ask that question, "why are you the person to write this story" or "why are you uniquely qualified to write this story" about any kind of story -- and often the question IS being asked about what your expertise is in the subject. Maybe the book is about penguins, and you are a zoologist and head of the Detroit Penguin Society. Maybe the book is about a kid who learns to read and you are a long-time early-childhood-education specialist. Maybe the book has to do with climate change and you are a climate scientist, or a journalist who has done a lot of research about the topic and is a passionate advocate for policy change around it.

Or maybe the book is just a fun book about a haunted house, and maybe the answer is just "I thought of it." But that's not a very interesting answer, is it? A better way to approach this question might be to think of it as, "what lead you to write this story?"

So, if the story IS about a haunted house -- maybe the answer is, "I've had a life-long fascination with ghost stories and read every spooky book I could get my hands on as a kid. But the inspiration to write THIS story actually came to me, believe it or not, in a dream -- I dreamed that my cat asked "why are the walls bleeding?" -- and when I woke up I was like -- LET'S FIND OUT!"

But here's the thing. You might also be trying to figure out if I think white/straight/cis/whatever people should write the stories of marginalized people. And instead of "haunted house" you meant "BIPOC Queer People" or something. Which um -- you know that is not a great analogy, right?

And I do think it is important to interrogate WHY you are the best person to write this story (and if indeed you ARE) when you decide you want to write a book about somebody else's identity. Maybe you AREN'T.

Like, if you are an Upper-Middle-Class Cis White Gay 23 year old Man from Topeka, with zero connection to New York, LGBTQ revolutionaries of the mid-to-late 20th century, BIPOC folks with a complicated gender indentity, activism around unhoused people, sex workers, the AIDS crisis, and the only thing you know about drag culture is what you learned on Ru Paul's Drag Race -- are you the best person to write a book from the POV of Martha P Johnson? I understand that you just learned about her and you want to "teach the children" -- but don't you think that maybe, JUST MAYBE, there are people more qualified to write this story? Maybe people who ACTUALLY KNEW HER, or who have walked in those shoes as an activist, or who otherwise have a personal connection with one or more parts of her identity and story?

Maybe you have done so much research and immersed yourself so fully in the history etc that you really feel this in your bones, and maybe the people that knew her and are experts trust you to do a great job. Maybe. :-)

Or maybe you should think of a way in to the story you want to tell that doesn't co-opt another person's identity. Like if it is a story about Queer History you want to tell -- maybe it is told from the POV of a cis white gay kid, like you were, who is in NYC in 1969 and seeing this stuff for the first time, and what their reaction to Stonewall might be? That doesn't mean your book would not be chock full of loads of different kinds of people of all gender-sexual-racial-identity-intersections -- of course it WOULD be! But your main POV character -- the one whose eyes we are seeing through -- would be a little bit more like yourself. Obviously it ISN'T you -- you weren't alive in 1969, you never went to NYC as a kid -- but it is not somebody so different from you that it would basically require a whole-brain transplant to get it right.

Ugh I have no idea if I answered your question, but anyway, I'm going to stop typing now, I hope that made sense.