As you long time readers know Jasmyne Cannick, yours truly and a long list of people inside and outside the TBLG community have long been pi...

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news , world news , and news about the economy There's an interesting discussion going on at Womanist Mus...

This picture and the caption beneath it triggered the musings of this post. Black women for centuries have had their beauty, denied, denigr...

When I'm writing sometimes I'll flip on the TV and tune it to the Weather Channel. I love the two sister on-air weather presenters ...

Those of us with longer memories would probably dispute that title by pointing out Harisu was the first Korean transwoman to garner internat...

The hottest model on the international catwalks these days is 19 year old New York native Diandra Forrest. She's a 5'11" tall,...

The EBONY Fashion Fair for fifty years has been an iconic slice of African-American culture. It was responsible for opening the eyes of the...

One of the transgender beauty pageants that has quickly garnered international attention in just six short years is about to crank up its 20...

Many times we women become so wrapped up in doing things for others that we sometimes forget to take time out to do something for ourselves....

TransGriot Note: My latest piece for Global Comment My cisgender girlfriends tease me sometimes about the amount of time I spend perfecti...

I was saddened to hear the news that pioneering African-American supermodel Naomi Sims passed away in Newark, NJ at age 61 after a battle wi...

You know I love pageants and have documented on TransGriot the various transgender ones around the world that happen. We've had som...

You knew that EBONY was going to have to drop an issue celebrating the sistahs after their 25 Coolest Brothers issue generated much buzz, c...

One of the things I gripe about on TransGriot is how the beauty of African-American women , be they trans or cisgender is disrespected....