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

Saturday, June 16, 2007

Can A Sistah Get a Quality Black TV Show on DVD?

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I've mentioned the fact that I own an extensive music CD collection. The same is true of my ever expanding DVD collection. It runs the g...
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Friday, June 15, 2007

No 'Game of the Century' Rematch

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UCLA released their 2007-2008 basketball schedule and I was disappointed to learn that UH was not on it. There has been a major push from U...
Thursday, June 14, 2007

We're Winning

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During the drive back from Washington DC to Louisville in the aftermath of our recent lobby days, I was doing some thinking after I finished...
Monday, June 11, 2007

Few School Districts Have Rules On Transgender Students

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By John Wright of the Dallas Voice May 11, 2007 From a 6-year-old kindergartner in Florida who wears dresses to school to a 17-year-old seni...
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Sunday, June 10, 2007

Elisabeth Withers

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I was introduced to this talented artist by one of the members on my Transistahs-Transbrothas group. Tia had adopted Elisabeth's song ...

Where Have All The Instrumental Songs Gone?

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One staple of Black music over the decades has been the slammin' instrumental tracks that populated many R&B records over the 60'...
Wednesday, June 06, 2007

Time To Elevate Our Game

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This is a post I wrote for Angelica's blog ; -------------------------------------------------------------- Back in 1979 an African-Amer...
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Monday, June 04, 2007

Happy Birthday Monica!

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Just in case you're wondering, I celebrated my birthday a month ago. The Monica I'm wishing a Happy Birthday to is one who is no lon...
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Sunday, June 03, 2007

Black Music Month

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photos-Duke Ellington, Denyce Graves, 'Jimmy Jam' Harris and Terry Lewis Since 1979 the month of June has been celebrated as Black ...
Saturday, June 02, 2007

June 2007 TransGriot Column

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Chuck Knipp + SQL + Minstrel Show = Racism Copyright 2007, THE LETTER Just in time for pride I’m calling out all you GLBT racism enablers. R...
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Thursday, May 31, 2007

Who Has The World's Most Beautiful Transwomen? Part 3

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In this post I'm going to concentrate on transwomen inhabiting Europe. We transpeeps need to give the Europeans major shout-outs. They...

Who Has The World's Most Beautiful Transwomen?-Part 2

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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, as the old saying goes. What I'm doing in this series of posts is trying to objectively ascertain...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Who Has The World's Most Beautiful Transwomen?-Part 1

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The Miss Tiffany Universe pageant that occurred earlier this month got me thinking about this question: Who does have the most beautiful tra...
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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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