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Friday, November 14, 2008

Monica's TRANScending Gender Keynote Speech-Part II

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TransGriot Note: This is Part II of the original text of my keynote speech that I gave on November 7, 2008 to the TRANScending Gender confer...
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Monica's TRANScending Gender Keynote Speech

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TransGriot Note: This is Part I of the original text of the speech I delivered at the TRANScending Gender Symposium at CU-Boulder on Novemb...
Thursday, November 13, 2008

Wake Up, White GLBT Community

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Sometimes I feel like Laurence Fishburne's character Dap in Spike's movie School Daze when it comes to talking to some white GLBT...
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008

2008 Louisville TDOR Events

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The 10th Anniversary of the Transgender Day Of Remembrance is rapidly approaching, and once again our sponsor for the local TDOR events hel...
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008

The World Loves The President-Elect

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Must be hard to be a Republican these days. You've spent millions of dollars denigrating liberals, blaming Black people for our count...
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Nelson Mandela's Letter To Our President-Elect

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TransGriot Note: I've been comparing this historic election of our first African-American president to the 1994 one in which South Afri...
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Duanna Johnson Found Dead

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TransGriot Note: Remember Duanna Johnson, whose beat down by Memphis cops was caught on tape a few months ago and led to a lawsuit against ...
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Sunday, November 09, 2008

Bye CU, Hello Louisville

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I'm back in Da Ville after a wonderful weekend in Boulder taking part in this weekend's Transforming Gender Symposium. Thanks to ...
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Saturday, November 08, 2008

Still In Colorado

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Hey people. Still in Boulder checking out the conference and will be heading back to the Bluegrass State tomorrow. I almost don't wa...
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Thursday, November 06, 2008

Live From Boulder, It's Moni!

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Finally made it to Boulder, CO after flying since 12:45 PM EST from Da Ville. Weather was beautiful for most of the trip down to DFW and up ...
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Headed To Boulder, CO!

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Hey peeps! Headed to Boulder CO to be the keynote speaker for the TRANScending Gender Conference kicking off tomorrow on the CU Boulder cam...
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Wednesday, November 05, 2008

President Elect Obama's Victory Speech

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The victory speech.

Yes We Did!

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It's one time I will happily say (and will write the post on November 5 if it plays out) I was wrong about an issue. I've always...
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Tuesday, November 04, 2008

I've Voted-Now It's Your Turn

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I've done my civic duty, now it's time for you to do yours. If you haven't voted, please do so. If you need to know where...
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It's E-Day

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It's E-Day. Election Day 2008. After two years of primaries, debates and a hard fought stretch run it comes down to peeps casting ...
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Monday, November 03, 2008

There Is No Oppression Olympics

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I’m a little sick of this nouveau trendy slogan of ‘oppression Olympics'. Stating facts about a minority group’s issues, struggles and...
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Transgender On TV: Laverne Cox & Isis King Brings On New Reality

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TransGriot Note: I didn't like the paragraph in which the writer confuses the androgeny on ANTM with Isis' appearance on the show a...
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Political Football

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If both campaigns are showing a little more interest than usual in tonight's Monday night football tilt between the Washington Redskins...
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Congratulations Again 'Number Two'!

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TransGriot Note: Y'all know how much I love and admire Dr. Marisa Richmond of Nashville, who is one of my role models as to the type of...
Sunday, November 02, 2008

Barack's Presidential Resume

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TransGriot Note: Stumbled across this courtesy of the TheLadders.net website. it wrote sample resumes for John McCain and Barack Obama for...
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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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