Showing posts with label African American community. Show all posts
Showing posts with label African American community. Show all posts
Thursday, July 21, 2016

DeShanna And Trinity Meet Gov. Markell

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I've had the pleasure of meeting and talking to over the last few years many of the mothers who are raising trans kids like Jeanette J...
Wednesday, September 09, 2015

Janet and Laverne Make The 2015 Root 100 List!

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They both made the list last year, but it's a year later and the 2015 edition of   The Root 100 List has been released with Janet M...
Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Can't Talk About The State Of Black Houston Without Discussing Black LGBT Houstonians

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Because I was committed to another event that was scheduled at the same time, I missed this The State Of Black Houston forum that took plac...
Monday, December 29, 2014

If #BlackLivesMatter...

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Then #BlackTransLivesMatter too. We are days away from seeing the end of a groundbreaking year for trans visibility predominately led by B...
Friday, December 26, 2014

Happy Black Trans Kwanzaa 2014

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Haban gari    What's The News?   Well, today's news is that it is the first night of Kwanzaa for those peeps who celebrate it. ...
Wednesday, November 12, 2014

PRIDE Houston Juneteenth Parade Conflict Update

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Just an update to the boneheaded vanillacentric privileged PRIDE Houston decision to not move it from conflicting with the Juneteenth parade...
Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Message To The Brothers

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TransGriot Note:  This deserves a signal boost. It was written by Julian Long in response to the renewed drama surrounding Ray Rice.   It ha...
Thursday, July 24, 2014

Houston Black Community Needs To Be BETTER LGBT Allies

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You and your misguided friends are hypocritically siding with the same conservative oppressors that oppose the African-American community o...
Wednesday, June 04, 2014

Houston Style Magazine, Stop Pimping The HERO Bathroom Lie

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One of the things that has really pissed me and Team HERO off about this battle to pass the now week old Houston Equal Rights Ordinance is h...
Tuesday, May 27, 2014

'The New Black' H-town Screening Tomorrow

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I have been waiting for this award winning documentary to come to Houston for months, and it is driving me crazy to discover that it is sche...
Sunday, April 06, 2014

Unveiling Of Houston MLK Jr. Plaza Statue Delayed

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Across the street from the soon to be opened MacGregor Park-MLK Station on the METRORail Purple Line a memorial plaza is being built.   Th...
Monday, March 24, 2014

Whose Beloved Community? Conference In ATL This Weekend

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Those of you in the ATL will have the opportunity to attend this conference at Emory University  from March 27-29 entitled Whose Beloved Co...
Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Saving JJ-The Sequel

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Last year I wrote about the controversial efforts of HISD Superintendent Dr. Terry Grier to close my high school alma mater that was thwarte...
Thursday, March 06, 2014

Upcoming 'Whose Beloved Community?' Conference At Emory

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Definitely wish I could b in the ATL for this one, but I'm already committed to an event on the HCC-Southeast campus on one of the dates...
Friday, February 28, 2014

Open Letter To The UHD Black Student Alliance

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As you TransGriot reader are aware of, I was part of a wonderful panel discussion yesterday with Augie Augustine, Dee Dee Watters and Ashton...
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Thursday, December 05, 2013

Time To Deal With The Contentious Relationship Between Cis Black Men And Cis Black Women

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I commented on that disgusting video earlier this week that has been generating somewhat heated discussion across the Blackosphere and beyo...
Wednesday, December 04, 2013

Houston 2013 Runoff Election-Talkin' To My District D Peeps

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The early voting for the 2013 City of Houston runoff elections starts in a few hours and runs through December 10, with the final runoff ele...