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Let's talk about #MarshaPJohnson, a 🧵 (TW riot, assault, bigotry, hate crimes, slurs)

Marsha "Pay It No Mind", Johnson was an incredible activist, sex worker, drag queen, and black trans woman who every queer person in the US today owes a debt of gratitude. A photo of Marsha P Johnson, smiling and in a floral crown,
Hers is a name you've almost definitely heard before... she has been honored in books, documentaries, a google icon tribute, and much more since her death in 1992. However, many accounts of her life are sanitized, more palatable versions of the truth. This thread will not be. A photo of Marsha P Johnson smiling and in her trademark cro
Many articles on her early life deadname and misgender her, which you will also not find here. She arrived in New York City from her hometown in New Jersey at only age 17 and quickly established herself in Greenwich Village. This was not the Village as it's known today. Marsha P Johnson stands at an activist rally next to a crowd
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