On-campus organizations host event honoring Sylvia Rivera

A light rain had been falling across campus all evening, but it did nothing to dampen the atmosphere of collaboration and creativity happening on the fourth floor of the CUB. The Sylvia Rivera Radical Solidarity event Monday night celebrated the legacy of Sylvia Rivera, a Latina Transgender activist who fought for LGBTQ+ rights. The event was hosted as a collaboration between five different on-campus organizations: the WSU LGBTQ+ Center, Queer People of Color Alliance (QPOCA), Movimiento Estudiantil Chicanx de Aztlán (MEChA), the Chicanx/Latinx Student Center (CLSC) and the Crimson Group. Event participants spent the evening creating blackout poetry, collages and buttons. A selection of magazines, newspapers and speeches supporting activism and self-empowerment were laid across tables for people to choose from. Next to the collage materials were a series of zines explaining the legacy that Sylvia Rivera left.

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