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SURVEILLING SYLVIA: Nicky Manlove histories of policing gender and sexuality, [email protected] presented at “Build a Bridge, Burn a Bridge” through the life of Sylvia Rivera July 11-12, 2020 Sylvia and STAR » Feinberg, Leslie and Sylvia Rivera. “I’m Glad I Was in the Stonewall Riots: Interview with Sylvia Rivera.” First published in Worker’s World, 1998. » Gan, Jessi. “‘Still at the Back of the Bus’: Sylvia Rivera’s Struggle” in Transgender Studies Reader 2, 2013. » Ng, Samuel Galen. “Trans Power! Sylvia Rivera’s STAR and the Black Panther Party” in Left History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Historical Inquiry and Debate, 17:1, 2013. » Rivera, Sylvia. “Queens in Exile, the Forgotten Ones” in GenderQueer: Voices from Beyond the Sexual Binary, 2002. » Shepard, Benjamin. “Sylvia and Sylvia’s Children: A Battle for Queer Public Space,” in That’s Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation, 2004. » Tourmaline. “Sylvia Rivera 10 Year Memorial.” 2012. » Women at the Center. “Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson: Listen to the Newly Unearthed Interview with Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries.” Published by New York Historical Society Museum & Library, 2019. Abolition & Critical Trans Politics » ABO Comix. “Confined before COVID-19: A Pandemic Anthology by LGBTQ Prisoners,” 2020. » Black & Pink. “Coming Out of Concrete Closets: A Report on Black & Pink’s National LGBTQ Prisoner Survey,” 2015. » Feinberg, Leslie. “Transgender Liberation: A Movement Whose Time Has Come,” 1992. » Hammond, Naa. “Illusions of Safety: Policing Hate Crimes Won’t Make Us Safer,” Against Equality. 2013. » INCITE! “Law Enforcement Against Native Women, Native Trans People, & Two-Spirit People,” 2018. » Ritchie, Andrea J. “Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color.” 2017. » Spade, Dean. Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of the Law, 2011. » Stanley, Eric A, and Nat Smith (eds.) Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment in the Prison Industrial Complex, 2nd edition, 2015. Films & Videos » Barnard Center for Research on Women and The Engaging Tradition Project. “Queer Dreams and Non-profit Blues,” 2015–2019. » Ophelian, Annaliese. “MAJOR!” 2015. » Rivera, Sylvia. “Ya’ll better quiet down!” Speech at Christopher Street Liberation Day, 1973. » Spade, Dean and Amy Mahardy. “Pinkwashing Exposed: Seattle Fights Back.” 2017. » Stryker, Susan and Victor Silverman. “Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria,” 2005. (Available on Kanopy through Pima County Public Library) » Tourmaline and Sasha Wortzel. “Happy Birthday, Marsha!” 2018..

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