Showing posts with label Black women. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Black women. Show all posts
Monday, January 27, 2020

ESSENCE Honors Black Trans Women In Hollywood

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One of the big three iconic magazines in the Black community is ESSENCE.   It has been chronicling the stories of Black women since its 19...
Saturday, March 03, 2018

Moni's March For Black Women Speech

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TransGriot Note: The text of my speech I'm delivering for the March For Black Women here in Houston.   To my beautiful Black sister...
Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Power Rising Summit Happening In The ATL February 22-25

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During a Congressional Black Caucus female members retreat held after the 2016 election, DC pastor Leah Daughtry, who had chaired the 2016...
Thursday, December 29, 2016

Still Evolving To Be That Quality Black Woman

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When I say 'quality Black woman', I wanted to be the type of woman that even if you knew or discovered after meeting me I was a tr...
Sunday, November 13, 2016

Congrats Sheriff-Elect Zena Stephens!

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One of the other positive things that happened on Election Night was that the first ever African-American female sheriff in Texas was ele...
Thursday, December 17, 2015

Serena's 2015 SI Sportsperson Of The Year Acceptance Speech

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Y'all know I'm ride or die for Serena Williams, and was pleased to hear that she was named the 2015 Sportsperson of the Year.   Sh...
Tuesday, July 14, 2015

And Still Serena Rises

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One of the things I'm absolutely sick of along with other African-Americans is the racist hatred and trans misogyny that flows from th...
Tuesday, June 02, 2015

Misgendering Attacks On A Black Woman's Femininity Aren't Funny

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Someone in a spasm of creativity decided to do a parody of the Caitlyn Jenner Vanity Fair cover in which they stuck Wendy Williams on a ...
Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Tired Of The Williams Sisters Getting Disrespected

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One of the things that will set me off in a hurry is when misgendering is aimed at Black women from the girls in the 'hood to Michelle O...
Friday, February 28, 2014

100 LGBTQ Black Women You Should Know

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Thanks to Autostraddle for this post of 100 LGBTQ Black Women You Should Know just in time for the last day of Black History Month and seg...
Thursday, December 12, 2013

Looks Like SNL Was Paying Attention To The Criticism

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One of the major reasons I stopped watching NBC's Saturday Night Live long ago (except for the recent show in which Kerry Washington ...
Monday, December 02, 2013

Black Men, You're A Misogynistic Punk If You Hit Any Black Woman, Cis Or Trans

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One of the things we definitely have to work on in the rapidly approaching New Year is eradicating this misogynistic attitude amongst youn...
Sunday, April 07, 2013

Karen Finney's New MSNBC Show Starts April 13

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Y'all know how much I love MSNBC political analyst Karen Finney, and was happy to hear that she will be getting her own show on the cabl...
Thursday, March 21, 2013

Jada Pinkett-Smith Questions Whether White Women Should Grace the Covers of Magazines Aimed at WOC?

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Guest post from Renee of Womanist Musings Like many women of colour I grew up looking at magazine racks with row upon row of White fac...
Monday, February 04, 2013

It's Rosa's 100th Birthday

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Today would have been the 100th birthday of iconic civil rights leader Rosa Parks, who was born on this date in Tuskegee, AL in 1913. Sh...
Friday, June 15, 2012

Apparently, Black Women Are Making a Mistake Not Wearing Makeup

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From my Timmy's Ice Capp drinking homegirl at Womanist Musings who is all that and four bags of ketchup flavored chips. I don&...
Monday, April 09, 2012

Why Do People Have A Problem With Trailblazing Black Female Athletes?

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I recently had to troll nuke a random fool who wandered over to my blog throwing 'That's A Man' shade at Brittney Griner.   Bu...