Showing posts with label Atlanta. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Atlanta. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 12, 2014

HRC Deja Vu At SCC 2014?

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When I was on a New York vacation in May 2000, I had a chat with a wise trans Latina that lasted so long, I ended up spending the night at h...
Sunday, June 01, 2014

SNaP Coalition Statement On ATL MARTA Trans Hate Attack

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Solutions Not Punishment is a broad based coalition in the City of Atlanta with close to a hundred organizational and individual members. ...
Saturday, May 31, 2014

Perps Busted In ATL MARTA Trans Hate Attack

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The two wastes of DNA who were caught on video attacking two African-American trans women on a MARTA train in Atlanta as people cheered and...
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...
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...
Sunday, November 17, 2013

Another Reason Why Non Discrimination Laws To Protect Trans People MUST Have Public Accomodations Language In Them

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Those of you who have read this blog know that I will go straight the hell off if I hear any hint of a suggestion that in order to pass ...
Saturday, October 12, 2013

The Assault On The ATL Trans Community Continues

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Our trans elder Cheryl Courtney-Evans continues to be on the case watching Peggy Denby AKA 'The Queen of Mean' and her acolytes in t...
Sunday, August 11, 2013

The Draconian ATL Banishment Ordinance-Still Pushing The Pig Of A Law

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Cheryl Courtney-Evans' latest update from her A Bitch For Justice blog about the ongoing efforts of Atlanta's 'Queen of Mean'...
Thursday, August 01, 2013

The Draconian ATL Anti-Prostitution Banishment Law Is Back

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Back in April I signal boosted a post from Cheryl Courtney-Evans' A Bitch For Justice blog calling out the proposed draconian anti-prost...
Thursday, May 23, 2013

President Obama's Morehouse Commencement Speech

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There are some peeps in the African-American community and on Black Twitter who have voiced concerns about his commencement speech, but it...
Monday, April 15, 2013

Draconian Anti-Prostitution Law Proposed In The ATL

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'The City Too Busy to Hate' as the ATL likes to call itself sometimes forgets that motto when it comes to trans women. I never for...
Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Creating Change 2013 Starts Today In The ATL

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In a few hours the 2013 edition of Creating Change will kick off in the ATL (and nope, won't be there for it.) at the Hilton Atlanta h...
Monday, September 24, 2012

The Trans Racial Political Divide Shows Up At SCC 2012

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While I was owning my power inside I-495 AKA the Capitol Beltway, I thought about during some OUT on the Hill downtime that the Southern C...
Monday, August 27, 2012

NBJC's Je-Shawna Wholley To Keynote State Of Black Gay America Summit

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I've had the pleasure of meeting and spending some quality time with this remarkable lady who is now a senior fellow with the National...
Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Score One For The 99%

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A Deutsche Bank branch in the ATL foreclosed on the home of 103 year old Vita Lee and her 83 year old daughter that they had lived in for ...
Tuesday, October 04, 2011

TransGriot Ten Questions Interview-Cheryl Courtney-Evans

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Cheryl Courtney-Evans is another one of our trans leaders this community and others need to get to know and show some love to.   The ...