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

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

The Ah Kua Show Comes To America

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Leona Lo is bringing her sold out Ah Kua Show from Singapore to the bright lights of Broadway. Off Broadway that is. The Ah Kua Show wri...

Texas Transgender Nondiscrimination Summit-Day Two

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After a very interesting and informative first day on the Rice University campus seeing old friends, making new ones and discussing how we&#...

Texas Has Transpeeps Marrying In It

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TransGriot Note: It was past time to pen this song rewrite. I'm more than a little pissed over the fact that ever since the push for sa...

Texas Transgender Nondiscrimination Summit-Day One Recap

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I wanted to get this up earlier, but I laid down for a short nap that lasted until almost 10 PM CDT. Better late than never with my repor...
Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Every Transwoman Needs Sistafriends In Her Life

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One of the things I've discovered in this ongoing feminine journey is that every transwoman needs a group of sistahfriends in her life...

Moni's In The Middle Of The Texas Transgender Nondiscrimination Summit

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At this moment I'm on Rice University's tree shaded campus sitting in the Kyle Morrow Room of the Fondren Library. This is one of t...

Damn- Here We Go Again With The Invalidating Our Marriages For Money Crap

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Many of us here in the Lone Star State and nationally remember the 1999 Littleton v. Prange case and the 2000 J'Noel Gardiner case in...
Monday, July 19, 2010

Sarah Palin's A Conservaidiot!

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The right wing and Tea Klux Klan's favorite self proclaimed feminist was on the attack against the NAACP last week. Her beloved teabag...

When Are You Gonna Recognize Our Humanity?

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'In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute' Justice Thurgood Marshall One of the ques...

The CCSF TransLatinas Club

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I recently joined the Trans Role Models Facebook page and it has been great to see the diversity of the trans rainbow playing out on that s...
Sunday, July 18, 2010

Moni's Guest Posting At The Rude Pundit

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One of the highest compliments you can get or signs that people like your work (besides garnering awards for it) is when your blogging peers...
Saturday, July 17, 2010

Rest In Peace, Angie

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Today is the second anniversary of Angie Zapata's death. Allen Andrade, the waste of DNA who committed this heinous crime was convic...

Moni's Short Stories

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I'm taking time out this weekend to do some fiction writing. No, I'm not going to apply for a job as a copy writer for Faux News, p...

Moni's Greatest Song Rewrite Hits-Volume I

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One of the features on this blog that you TransGriot readers tell me you never get enough of are my satirical song rewrites. I'll pen o...

Happy 75th Birthday Diahann Carroll!

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Had to take a moment to salute the milestone birthday of one of my fave actresses and beauty role models , Diahann Carroll. Carol Diahann J...
Friday, July 16, 2010

My Chocolate Flavored Transition Is STILL Not Like Yours

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One of the things I have repeatedly said in the 15 plus years I've been a part of the trans community is that mine and the transitions o...
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See? Told Y'all The Tea Klux Klan ls Racist

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We've all seen the hue and cry come for the Tea Klux Klan complaining that the NAACP and the 'liberal media' mischaracterizes th...

TransForm New Hampshire Conference Coming Soon

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Many of us remember last year, when the New Hampshire Senate, the only female led and dominated legislature in the country if not the world ...

Shut Up Fool! Awards-NAACP Rocks Edition

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The 101st annual NAACP convention closes in Kansas City, MO today and one of the big pieces of news that came out of it was the resolution p...
Thursday, July 15, 2010

Caster Wins!

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800m world champion Caster Semenya finally got to run a race for the first time since her world championship run in Berlin 11 months ago. I...
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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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