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

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

So, Vanilla Gay Community, Have You Figured Out Who Your Oppressors Are Yet?

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This graphic says it all and can't make it any clearer as to who are the gay community's oppressors. 57 Democrats vote for repeal o...

Team USA Women 2010 FIBA Worlds- We Have A Team

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The twelve women that are going to represent FIBA number one ranked Team USA and attempt to bring an eighth championship back to US soil wer...

Focus On What's Between My Ears, Not My Legs

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One of the things that's an irritant to many of us in the trans community as we continue on our gender journeys is when people fixate on...

Why The Trans Community Hates Dr. Paul McHugh

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"The post-surgical subjects struck me as caricatures of women. They wore high heels, copious makeup, and flamboyant clothing; they spok...

NBJC Statement On Failed DADT Repeal

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Yesterday the Senate failed to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT),” a law that calls for all gay and lesbian people who serve in the armed...

2010 Texans Watch-This Time It Counts In the Standings

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After beating the Washington Redskins in 30-27 overtime after coming back from a 17 point third quarter deficit, my fave NFL team takes its ...
Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Free Speech Is Not 'I Get To Say Whatever I Want And You STFU'

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As someone who keeps a copy of the United States Constitution next to her computer and unlike the Tea Klux Klan knows what it means, I am fa...

What We Has Here Is A Fauxgressive Failure To Communicate

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Because I talk about the issues of race, class and how they affect the TBLG community and perceptions of how we view the same events in Amer...

More Like Satan's Flag

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For those of you who wonder why I persist in calling the Teabaggers the Tea Klux Klan, check out this link from TeaParty.org with the '...

The Upcoming Coppin State African American Transgender Forum

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TransGriot Note: Thanks to Sandy Rawls for sending me the info concerning this upcoming forum. A I mentioned at the beginning of this year,...
Monday, September 20, 2010

Sex, Lies, Politics, Transpeeps and Polygraphs

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As I constantly remind people, trans folks are part of the diverse mosaic of human life. That means we'll find ourselves intertwined ...

Miss Major's Yale Speech

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Miss Major is one of my trans elders and one of the few African-American Stonewall veterans still around as a living witness to that history...

Team USA Women 2010 FIBA Worlds- Countdown To Cut Day

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USA Basketball announced the 14 players who still have the opportunity to make the Team USA women's squad for the FIBA World Championshi...

Why The Trans Community Hates Dr. Janice G. Raymond

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“ I contend that the problem with transsexualism would best be served by morally mandating it out of existence” Before there was an HRC an...

U of L Pride Week 2010

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Won't be there, seeing the wonderful folks I got to know on campus or taking part in this one, (maybe next year) but the annual student-...
Sunday, September 19, 2010

The Transwoman Behind Turkey's FIBA Tournament Success

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Turkey had an 8-1 run to the September 12 title game in the recently concluded 2010 FIBA World Championships before they fell to Team USA. ...

Dr. Ronald W. Walters Passes Away

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One of the people I eagerly read who has influenced much of the way I see things politically is political scholar and expert on African-Amer...
Saturday, September 18, 2010

Team USA Women 2010 FIBA Worlds- Another Exhibition Blowout

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The Team USA women were more than a little upset about the way they played last night in their 83-77 loss against the defending FIBA world w...

2010 UH Cougar Watch-Coogs Take On UCLA

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My Number 23 ranked Cougars in a few hours will be on the Left Coast in the Rose Bowl taking on the UCLA Bruins. As of yet our all everythi...
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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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