canmom:(Making a post about this because I haven’t seen it hit Tumblr yet. Tweets pictured: [first]

canmom:(Making a post about this because I haven’t seen it hit Tumblr yet. Tweets pictured: [first] [second] [third] [fourth] [fifth] [sixth and seventh])You may have seen this 30,000 note post with a video excerpt from Sylvia Rivera’s famous “y’all better quiet down” speech at the 1973 Christopher Street Liberation Day rally, along with commentary from various trans women on the impact that day had on her and Marsha P Johnson and broader context on the horrible way Sylvia Rivera was treated by white, assimilationist gay organisations and the precursors to trans woman exterminationist feminism.The video was uploaded in 2012 by Reina Gossett, a Black trans woman whose archival work is integral to our understanding of the lives of trans women of colour such as Sylvia Rivera, Marsha P Johnson and Miss Major who began the gay rights movement. Reina Gossett’s research is the basis for many recent histories of Stonewall, STAR and the struggle in New York, often without proper credit.The video has now been removed.In the week of 17 April 2017, the “Lesbian Herstory Archive” made a copyright claim on the video, and Vimeo took it down. Above are tweets from last week by Reina Gossett and others commenting on this use of repressive copyright law to attempt to hide a crucial piece of gay and trans history.Thankfully, that is not the only online video of the speech, and it can be seen (from a different source, I think) here on Youtube. You can also hear a recording of the speech (and the one before it) in Morgan M Page (@odofemi)’s podcast episode on Sylvia Rivera, Marsha P Johnson and STAR. Reina Gossett is presently part of the crew making a historically accurate, non-whitewashed film about Stonewall called Happy Birthday Marsha, presently in post-production, and has also made a short animated film with Miss Major called The Personal Things.Gross that they made the claim but what I’ve heard from trans friends who’ve been involved in the Lesbian Herstory Archives is that they’re very trans friendly and committed to archiving the personal histories of trans lesbians, not jus cis ones. Does anyone have any sources to call them terfs, a claim I’ve seen in a lot of the notes? -- source link

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