Saturday 07/01/23

Workout

Warm Up

AMRAP 6 
20 high knees 
10 (total) single leg RDL 
5 up downs 
5 empty bar deadlifts 
5 empty bar hang power cleans 
5 empty bar strict press 

WOD 

PRIDE WOD
AMRAP 24-Partners 
6 power cleans (185/125 135/95)-split
6 synchronized burpees 
200m run (together) 
6 synchronized burpees 
28 alt DB snatches (50/35 40/20)-split
6 synchronized burpees

Background: This workout is dedicated to Marsha P. Johnson. As an African-American trans woman, Marsha P. Johnson “has been consistently been overlooked both as a participant in the Stonewall uprising and more generally, LGBTQ activism. As the broader gay and lesbian movement shifted toward leadership from white cisgender men and women, trans people of color were swept to the outskirts of the movement.”

Despite this, following the events at Stonewall, Johnson and her friend Sylvia Rivera co-founded the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR) and they became fixtures in the community, especially in their commitment to helping homeless transgender youth. STAR provided services — including shelter (the first was a trailer truck) — to homeless LGBTQ people in New York City, Chicago, California and England for a few years in the early 1970s but eventually disbanded.

Born on August 24, 1945, at the age of 46, Marsha’s body was found floating in the Hudson River off the West Village Piers on July 6, 1992. The police initially ruled her death a suicide despite claims from her friends and others in the community that she was not suicidal. 25 years later, NYC Anti-Violence Project re-opened this investigation.

This workout was designed by Kiel Holman of TWR CrossFit (Indianapolis, IN, USA) for their workout of the day on June 13, 2020.

The rep scheme signifies:
– 24 minutes for Marsha’s birthday on August 24
– 6 Power Cleans for the 6 days of the Stonewall uprising protests (6/28/1969 – 7/3/1969)
– 6-28-69 reps for the date when the Stonewall uprising began.

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