This month's edition of the 'Tell It WOC Speak' blog carnival is up and popping. I was surprised and honored to see that the p...

Last February over at the Bilerico Project I wrote a post for Black History Month about the 1965 Dewey Lunch Counter Sit-In Protest in Phi...

Transsexuals In Iran is an award winning documentary by Tanaz Eshaghian that takes a fascinating look at the lives of transsexuals living in...

When I say that being transgender is a worldwide issue, I'm not kidding about that. While the peeps in Europe, the Americas and Asia ...

Fashion Week cranked up in New York yesterday and one of the things I and other interested observers will be scrutinizing is not if they use...

One of the things I hear a lot from my biowomen friends when we're chatting at various times is that they sometimes wish they were my 6&...

Happy Valentine's Day 'errbody'. For those of you who are in long or short term relationships, married or unmarried, I ain...

Well, since today is Friday The 13th, it's time to show some fear and loathing to the people who made us cringe in terror by flapping th...

The tough economy is whacking Las Vegas as well. If you were thinking about checking out the 'An Evening At La Cage' female imperso...

Brazil has a population of African descended people of about 100 million, which is more than the combined population of African descended pe...

Thanks to Renee at Womanist Musings , I'm about to experience something new as a blogger, participating in my first blog carnival. She&...

The 2009 edition of the IFGE Conference just concluded another successful run with over 150 attendees and speakers from around the country i...

If a Black person gets in trouble, he calls out two names, Jesus and the NAACP. Joe Madison Today marks the 100th anniversary of an iconi...

RuPaul's back on TV with a reality show called RuPaul's Drag Race on Logo. Yeah, I know I've griped for years about the lack o...

"I don't think Chris would just a hit a girl like that. She had to do something or say something out the way for him to really hurt...

Cuba is famous for its cigars, its passion for baseball, the long list of great major league ballplayers from the island, great Olympians an...

Interesting article from Thailand's Pattaya Daily News about transgender issues in the States. It's nice to get a perspective f...

The Villager has compiled the Black Blog Rankings for February, so lets see how much love I received in them since I won't be getting an...

Like most of the country I was tuned in to President Obama's first prime time press conference. After the last eight painful years (f...

Once upon a time my home state produced national leaders such as Lyndon Johnson, Lloyd Bentsen, Ralph Yarborough, Barbara Jordan, Mickey Lel...