Fighting Like Hell for the Bronx

A panel of social movement organizers reflect on queer and trans leadership in struggles in the Bronx against jail construction, displacement, gentrification, and homelessness.

FEATURING

• Adelaide Dicken (facilitator)


• Pilar Maschi


• Shellyne Rodriguez,


• Jay Toole

Although the quote predates her, trans activists today remember  Sylvia Rivera as saying we must "Fight like hell for the living!" Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson are legends of the Stonewall riot, and organized trans people on the streets and in prisons and jails throughout their careers. 

A cross-generational panel featuring contemporary queer and trans Bronx organizers reflects on the ways in which Rivera and Johnson's respective legacies live on today in the borough's social movements. Hear from those who have fought like hell against new jail construction, queer homelessness, and development projects that displace Bronx residents. 

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Major support of the Love & Resistance: Stonewall 50 exhibition and related programming is provided by The New York Community Trust, Hermes Mallea and Carey Maloney, and the TD Charitable Foundation and TD Bank. Additional support is provided by Time Warner and the Magnus Hirschfeld Endowment Fund.

Support for The New York Public Library’s Exhibitions Program has been provided by Celeste Bartos, Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III, Mahnaz Ispahani Bartos and Adam Bartos Exhibitions Fund, Jonathan Altman, and Miriam and Ira D. Wallach.

ASL interpretation and real-time (CART) captioning available upon request. Please submit your request at least two weeks in advance by emailing accessibility@nypl.org.