Showing posts with label Moni's musings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Moni's musings. Show all posts
Thursday, April 03, 2014

Thanks To My Trans Sistas, Too

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Tomorrow will mark the 20th anniversary of the 1994 day I began the very public coming out phase of my gender transition.   I wrote a post...
Thursday, March 20, 2014

It Is Revolutionary To Be Trans

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Laverne Cox was speaking tell it like it T-I-S is truth when she stated, "It is revolutionary for any trans person to choose to be se...
Tuesday, March 11, 2014

What Does 'Tell It Like It T-I-S Is' Mean?

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For those of you who read my blog regularly. you'll note that I have the phrase 'tell it like it T-I-S is' incorporated in man...
Friday, February 14, 2014

Happy Valentine's Day 2014

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It's Valentine's Day 2014, and for you folks who are booed up, I ain't mad at you.   Hope they are treating you with all the l...
Saturday, January 25, 2014

Do I Have People I Admire In This Community? I Sure Do

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Much of the time I'm in the position of having someone come up to me and tell me how much they admire me, how long they've been a ...
Monday, January 20, 2014

My MLK Day 2014 Musings

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Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the US federal holiday on the third Monday of the month in which we have since 1986 remembered Dr. Ki...
Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Rev. Dr. MLK Jr's 85th Birthday

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Today would have been the 85th birthday of the Rev. Dr Martin Luther King, Jr.   An assassin's bullet took him away from us far too so...
Sunday, December 29, 2013

Last Sunday of 2013

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Today is the last Sunday of 2013.   We are still as individuals and a community contemplating our lives, the year that is about to become pa...
Monday, December 16, 2013

What I'd Like To Give The Black Trans Community For Christmas 2013

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We are less than nine days away from Christmas Day 2013.  The Christmas music with soul is playing on our favorite radio stations, our fav...
Thursday, November 28, 2013

What I'm Thankful For In 2013

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At this moment I'm chilling at my mom's house and probably have a turkey wing (left side) stuck in my mouth along with the other f...
Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Texas Is Not Just For Conservative White People

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They'll say that little old Leticia Rosa San Miguel Van de Putte from the barrio will never become Lieutenant Governor. And they'll...
Monday, November 25, 2013

Trans Younglings, Imagine Growing Old, Not Dying Young

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Was perusing my Facebook wall and noticed a post from a young African-American trans person in which she expressed her joy about turning 24 ...
Thursday, October 31, 2013

Happy Trans National Holiday 2013!

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Happy Trans National Holiday, or what the rest of you cisgender peeps recognize as Halloween.  It's what I sometimes call this day bec...
Saturday, October 19, 2013

Still Miss Y'all, Louisville!

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Ever since I accompanied by Polar back in May 2010 drove the moving van onto that I-65 south entrance ramp to eventually end up 1000 miles ...
Thursday, October 17, 2013

I Don't Want Tolerance

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Tolerance according to the dictionary definition of the word is 'the ability or willingness to tolerate something, in particular the ...
Friday, October 11, 2013

Moni's Coming Out Story

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Been reading a lot of people's coming out stories today, so thought I would have you TransGriot readers jump into the DeLorean Time ...
Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Black Community Issues Are Black Trans Issues

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I have repeatedly said on this blog that Black trans issues are Black community issues .  I'm going to flip the script in this post ...