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A proud unapologetic Black trans woman speaking truth to power and discussing the world around her since 2006

Saturday, March 10, 2007

She Swoopes To Conquer

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By Arnold Wayne Jones Staff Writer, Dallas Voice Mar 8, 2007, 19:12 WNBA star Sheryl Swoopes, who rocked pro athletics by coming out at the ...

Thai Spice Girls Preach Transsexual Power

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20th February 2007 17:04 Amy Bourke From Pink News.co.uk A girl band of transsexuals who model themselves on the Spice Girls are hoping to...
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Happy Birthday Jasmine Guy!

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One of my favorite quadruple threats was born on this date in 1964. I fell in love with Jasmine when she played Hillman's diva princess ...
Friday, March 09, 2007

Documentary-American Beauties

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Liz sent this link to TSTB about the award-winning documentary film called American Beauties . The 2005 documentary is a series of intervie...

Houston Unity Banquet Tickets Go On Sale

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Renowned activist Ray Hill to keynote April 14 event The Houston Transgender Unity Committee has opened ticket sales for the 15th annual Hou...

Lobby Day Attracts 210 LGBT Activists To Austin

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By David Webb Staff Writer, Dallas Voice Mar 8, 2007, 20:36 Transgender activists account for almost one-fourth of people visiting legislato...
Monday, March 05, 2007

We Don't Want Ann Coulter, Either

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I've been amused over the last four years about the 'Mann Coulter' epithet directed at the Queen of Conservamean in addition to ...
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Friday, March 02, 2007

Transsexual Pioneer Renee Richards Regrets Fame

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Sun Feb 18, 2007 12:07pm ET By Belinda Goldsmith NEW YORK (Reuters) - As Renee Richards, the world's most famous transsexual athlete, lo...
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Open Letter to Kenneth Eng

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Dear Kenneth, For somebody that graduated from NYU, you are breathtakingly ignorant to paint an entire race of people with a stereotypical b...
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March 2007 TransGriot Column

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Why Is The GLBT Community ‘Scurred’ of Old Glory? Copyright 2007, THE LETTER Something’s missing when we have any kind of press conference, ...
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Quit Hatin' On Tubby

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Question: What would you do with a coach who during his ten year tenure has won five SEC regular season championships, five SEC tournament c...
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Thursday, March 01, 2007

A Rebuttal to Kenneth Eng's 'Why I Hate Blacks' Column

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By Kenneth Eng published in AsianWeek February 23, 2007 TransGriot note: This is the text of the AsianWeek newspaper column written by Ken...

Blue Bell Comes To The Bluegrass State!

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photo courtesy Blue Bell.com website Hallelujah! I just read the announcement on the Blue Bell website that stores in the Louisville area a...
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Wednesday, February 28, 2007

New TransGriot Blog Links

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left photo-Jackie right photo-Angelica Hey TransGriot readers! Just a quick note about two of the blogs that I've linked to TransGriot. ...
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Monday, February 26, 2007

Janet Hill

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, Another installment in my ongoing series of articles on transgender and non-transgender women who have qualities that I admire. Janet Hill...
Sunday, February 25, 2007

Shilah Phillips-The First African-American Miss Texas

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Congratulations to Shilah Phillips who made a little Black history of her own on July 8, 2006. She became the first African-American to win...
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Saturday, February 24, 2007

Tall Sistahs

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TransGriot Note: Photo is of Sen. Barack Obama and his statuesque 5'11" wife Michelle.  (List has been updated as of August 5, 202...
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Friday, February 23, 2007

Black Transgender TV Characters

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Back in 2000 when GLAAD was crowing about the TV show Ally McBeal having a transgender character, I pointed out the Edith Stokes character...
Thursday, February 22, 2007

Professor Emeritus John Hope Franklin Helps Teach Us Who We Are

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Tuesday, February 20, 2007 By: Michael H. Cottman from BlackAmericaWeb.com "We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and un...

If Anna Nicole Smith Were Black, Would She Be Getting Such A Glorified Post Mortem? No

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photo-Anna leaving the Supreme Court Wednesday, February 21, 2007 By: Tonyaa Weathersbee, BlackAmericaWeb.com Maybe it's out of respect ...
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Monica Roberts
Monica Roberts, AKA the TransGriot (Gree-oh) is a native Houstonian, GLAAD award winning blogger, writer, and award winning trans human rights advocate. She's the founding editor of TransGriot, and her writing has appeared at the Bilerico Project, Ebony.com, The Huffington Post and the Advocate. She works to foster understanding and acceptance of trans people inside and outside communities of color. Among her many honors are the Virginia Prince Transgender Pioneer Award, the Robert Coles Call of Service Award. the Barbara Jordan Breaking Barriers Award, and the 2020 Susan J Hyde Award for Longevity In The Movement
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