Also: Sylvia Rivera is my hero

If you would like to be my hero, too, consult her. I think she ought to be beatified, she's Catholic after all.

Some of her saintly miracles:

1. Rioting for hours but having the good sense to send her boyfriend back home to get a change of clothes in the middle of the riot.

2. Deciding to become hysterical when she found out about Judy Garland's death.

3. Referring to everyone (even people older than her) as 'chile,' and doing it with pizzazz.

4. Waking up from a heroine overdose and having the good sense to immediately bitch her friends out for letting her fall into a snowbank with her coat.


5. More generally upping the sass quotient.