TransGriot

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

Friday, June 27, 2008

The Big Payback

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How reparations activist Deadria Farmer-Paellmann turned a one-woman campaign into a triumphant national movement by KEMBA J. DUNHAM from ES...
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Monday, June 23, 2008

Nation's African-American Civil Rights Groups Denounce Beating of Transgender Woman

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TransGriot Note: Thanks NBJC! ;) WASHINGTON, DC --The nation's most influential African-American civil rights organizations have joined...
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Sunday, June 22, 2008

It's Our Flag, Too - Use It!

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One of the things I have consistently griped about is the lack of American flags at GLBT community events. It would have been more appropri...
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Saturday, June 21, 2008

Yo NAACP, NBJC...Where Y'all At?

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It's been a few days since the video of a Memphis police officer beating down an African-American transwoman was released, and I have ye...
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Nashville Schools Adopt Fully Inclusive School Board Policy

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Unlike the war we had to fight on our end of I-65 just to narrowly get a policy passed on a 4-3 vote that cut transpeople out of it, our n...
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Duanna Johnson Update

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Here's more video, CNN Headline News analysis and a portion of a local television interview Duanna Johnson did with a Memphis TV reporte...
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Caprica Is A Go

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If you're a Battlestar Galactica junkie like I am, you were tuned in last week to see the Season 4 midseason finale. The Colonial Fle...
Friday, June 20, 2008

'To Fuel The Hell-Fire Flames Of Bigotry'

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TransGriot Note: One of the reasons I have a more positive view of what can be done through the political process is probably because I was ...
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Just Because The Po-Po's Charge You With Prostitution Doesn't Make You One

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One of the things that's maddening to us as African-Americans is that not only is our community judged by the worst we produce and not o...
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Happy Juneteenth Y'all!

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General Order Number 3, read by Union General Gordon Granger on June 19, 1865 from the balcony of Ashton Villa, Galveston, TX. "The peo...

Memphis Po-Po's Caught Beating A Transwoman On Tape

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Transwomen are all too aware of police officers who abuse their authority to harrass, assault, denigrate and rape us. The Stonewall Rebell...
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Great News From The AMA!

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TransGriot Note: The good news just keeps on coming for us. A legislative victory in Colorado, positive responses to the Transgender Pride M...
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Umm Joann, THIS Is A Blackface Drag Show

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One of the things I've pointed out in my decade fighting for transgender rights and in writing posts for this blog are the parallels bet...
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Monday, June 16, 2008

Miss Tiffany 2008 Wrapup

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TransGriot readers, I told y'all about the annual Miss Tiffany Universe pageant that takes place in Thailand in May, but thanks to all t...
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Fracking Gas Prices!

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I got paid Friday, so it was time to bite the bullet and pay for a fill up of my gas tank. Ever since the prices started spiraling up over t...
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Sunday, June 15, 2008

Paternal Hymn For Transgender Daughters

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TransGriot Note: This was posted to TSTB since today is Father's Day. Unfortunately I don't know who the author is so I can give th...
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Beauty On The Black Market

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One problem that transpeople of color face is that many of us don't have the income levels needed to follow the path prescribed by the W...

India's Transgender TV Host

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Back in March I posted a Washington Post story to the blog about the upcoming debut of an Indian transgender TV host named Rose in Chennai,...
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Eunuch From India Fights For Respect At UN AIDS Meets

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by Lalit K Jha NDTV.com Thursday, June 12, 2008 (United Nations) An Indian eunuch, Laxmi Narayan Tripathi is fighting for the rights and res...
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Saturday, June 14, 2008

The Villager's Black Blog Rankings

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The TransGriot is one of the now 1,239 blogs ranked in the Black Blog Rankings compiled by the creative genius behind the Electronic Village...
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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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