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

Monday, August 18, 2008

'Transsexuality Gene' Makes Women Feel Like Men

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16:13 29 July 2008 NewScientist.com news service Linda Geddes A gene variant has been identified that appears to be associated with female...
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Real Motherhood Is About This

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17 Aug 2008, 0407 hrs IST, T S Sreenivasa Raghavan,TNN from The Times Of India It was a quiescent Sunday evening. The sky was alight in ...
Sunday, August 17, 2008

More Ballroom Community Video

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As Clay Cane's and Frank Leon Roberts blogs document, the ballroom community is still evolving and possibly about to become more main...
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Venus and Serena Win Beijing Doubles Gold

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My favorite tennis playing sisters shook off their disappointing quarterfinal singles losses and beat Anabel Medina Garrigues and Virginia ...
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Kellie Telesford Murderer Gets Off

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Across The Pond, they've had their own high profile transgender murder trial going on. Unfortunately the results are depressingly famil...
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Saturday, August 16, 2008

Double B-Ball Blowouts

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Spain has been having a banner year athletically. Rafael Nadal not only has become the world's number one ranked player in tennis, he&#...

Subpoena of DA Records in Morris Case ‘Imminent’

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By Timothy Cwiek PGN Writer-at-Large © 2008 Philadelphia Gay News As the city’s Police Advisory Commission prepares to subpoena the Distr...

The Willie Houston Story

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One of the things I need to point out is how pervasive gender and gender role stereotyping is prevalent in our culture. The rigid gender...
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Friday, August 15, 2008

2009 IFGE Conference Call for Presenters

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The International Foundation for Gender Education is requesting presentation and workshop proposals for its upcoming 2009 IFGE Conference....

Faux News Ignorance

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Y'all know how much I loathe Faux News or any right-wing conservaoutlet. It's nothing but a propaganda organ for the Republican p...
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Fashion Blackout

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It seems incredible to hear that in a year in which we celebrated the 50th anniversary of the EBONY Fashion Fair fashion show, been buzzing ...
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Transgender View Of DNC Platform

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Dr. Marisa Richmond, our first African-American transgender delegate to the Democratic National Convention, has posted her comments at the ...
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Thursday, August 14, 2008

Good Olympic News, Bad Olympic News

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This is a good news bad news kind of Olympic day so far. Dawn made sure I was up for the 8 AM EDT start of Team USA's men's game v...

Isis-The Transsistah On 'America's Next Top Model'

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You loyal TransGriot readers know that I can't stand reality TV shows. However, with transsistah Laverne Cox being a contestant on I W...
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Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Are Black Transwomen Fighting A Lost Cause?

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I just think that it is sad, to see a people who were fighting for their rights as second class citizens, just to get those rights, and now ...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Stephanie And Ukea Anniversary

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Six years ago today two young friends died in a hail of bullets. Ironically it was on the same Washington DC street corner in which Tyra ...
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More Transgender Themed Commercials

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Theere was a post I did a while back on transgender themed commercials from around the world. Found some more on YouTube for you to perus...
Monday, August 11, 2008

Tina...Tina ...Tina

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As a card carrying member of the Sea of Red and a former Comets season ticket holder, I love me some Tina Thompson. She had a relatively...

Speaking of Ignorance...

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This is an example of what I was talking about in the 'My Peeps Transgender Ignorance' post I posted this rebuttal comment to Smok...
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My Peeps Transgender Ignorance

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I continue to be amazed and appalled at the breathtaking levels of ignorance that have been leveled at transpeople by some of my fellow Afri...
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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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