Wanna Know Why We Have Problems With Our Gay 'Allies'?

Because at times they are worse than our right wing oppressors.

We have a prime example of that going on with the current push to pass the unjust HB 235 law in Maryland.

InEquality Maryland since they lost on their gay marriage bill, is now hellbent on passing a flawed and worthless trans rights bill onto a community that has told them repeatedly they don't want it without public accommodations language in it.

This blog isn't the only one griping about HB 235 and the shady way that InEquality Maryland is ramming this bill through,.

I Guess HRC Has Exclusive Rights To The Phrase 'Discrimination Free Zone, Eh?

The Continuing Con Artistry Of Morgan Meneses-Pinocet And Free State (Always Will And Forever Be) Just Us

Meltdown At Equality Maryland?

Fiction Writing-Take Me Away

In the mood to do some fiction writing this weekend.  Time to get reacquainted with some characters I created a few years ago and see what's transpired in their lives since the last time I wrote about them.

I also have the option of taking another path and taking the time to say hello to some new ones.  In addition to creating and getting to know them, I get the pleasure of figuring out their likes, dislikes and what exciting things are transpiring in the world that I can create and they'll interact in.

No matter which route I take, the bottom line is that it's been too long since I've done some fiction writing and I did promise myself I'd make more time to do so in 2011.   I just need to do some writing that unleashes some creative juices on a regular basis instead of the 'just the facts' and the editorial pieces I've been doing a lot lately.   

The news has been coming fast and furisously on many issues.  I'm happy to post it here at TransGriot with my analysis for your reading pleasure, and not  thank whose of you who drop by on a regular basis, I thank those of you in this Great Recession who have dropped your hard earned change in the tip jar as well.    

But inside me is a frustrated fiction writer yearning to breathe free....hold on a minute.

Lorynn, what do you mean I'm overdue with 'your' sequel to On The Wings of Love?   Damn, always the diva. 

As I was saying, there's a frustrated fiction writer yearning to breathe free.  Have some ideas for a few stories and they will include some positive trans characters of color since they are sorely needed in the fiction world.
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Just need to take some time and create them.

Yo George, Where Is the Apology To Wendy Williams?

One thing I quickly noticed in the ongoing flap over George Lopez's comedic take on the Dancing With The Stars performances of Kirstie Alley and Wendy Williams that failed is how quickly race played out in the reactions to it.

As my Canadian homegirl noted in her post at Womanist Musings, feminist groups and blogs quickly rallied around Alley but left Williams to fend for herself as they always do.

What I found interesting is that women's groups advocating for an apology for Alley and then remained silent regarding the comments he aimed at Wendy Williams.    

Well Renee, why should we be surprised about this erasure?  The feminist blogosphere has yet to come to the defense of First Lady Michelle Obama on any subject, so what makes us think they're going to stop clutching their privilege pearls long enough to care about 'The Queen of All Media'?

They can scream and rant about Kirstie Alley and be all up in arms about it, but will not lift a fingernail, much less type one outraged sentence on a major feminist blog about the transphobic slur aimed at Ms. Williams.

So if we want it done right, we got to do it our damned selves. 

But didn't I call it on March 14 when I wrote this:  


"The new season of Dancing With The Stars starts March 21, and I will be interested to see how long it will take before the Black gossip blogs start unleashing a fresh barrage of transphobic barbs at her."


Well, I haven't surfed over to the cyberswamps of transphobia known as Bossip and other Black gossip blogs who gleefully participate in transphobic Wendy Williams bashing to see if this has come to pass yet, but I was surprised that the 'that's a man' shade is coming from George Lopez.


What I wasn't surprised about was the cricket chirping silence coming from vanilla flavored feminist blogs in terms of this issue.


But back to George Lopez.  You owe Wendy Joan Williams an apology.  I'm more than a little sick of the 'that's a man' shade disrespectfully spat at African American women.   I called out Black men and a long list of people inside the Black community for doing so as well, and you ain't getting a pass on it either just because you're Latino, I like your comedy and generally agree with your political stances.   .     


It's still wrong to misgender any woman of any ethnic group, period.
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The clock is ticking, and I'm just curious to see how long it will take for not only the feminist blogosphere to insist on the same apology for Wendy Williams that they demanded for Kirstie Alley, but how long it will take George to say the words 'I'm Sorry' to Ms.Williams as well?