Told Y'all 'Kandi Koated Nights' Was Going To Be A Transphobic Tranwreck

Can I call it or what?  

I wrote a post a few hours before it happened on December 21 asking the question if Kandi Burruss' podcast was going to be a transphobic trainwreck.

Well, here's what Cheryl Courtney-Evans had to say about it on her A Bitch For Justice blog.

Hatin' On Transpeople For The Holidays In The Great White North

The North West Territories to be precise. 

According to the Dented Blue Mercedes blog, we had another eruption of Holiday Transphobia Gone Wild on December 9.

Seems that student Gabrielle Landrie was alleged to have been asked on three occasions by Northwest Territories Finance Minister Michael Miltenberger to leave the campus during the visit of Governor General David Johnston to Aurora College.

The reason?  Because according to Miltenberger she allegedly spooked the Governor General.

Hmm. Sounds like yours or if it's true the Governor General's issue, niot Gabrielle's.   She had every right to be on that campus as a student there.

Interestingly enough, Gender Identity is an explicitly protected grounds of discrimination in NWT human rights law and policy so a human rights complaint has been filed.by Landrie against Miltenberger. .

Stay turned, this is going to be a very interesting situation playing out up there.

Take Notes ABC....

This is the way you do a gender bending theme tastefully instead of that piss poor ripoff of Bosom Buddies you're trying to pimp in Work It.   If you can't cast a transwoman to do it, cast either a cis female or an actor who looks and acts convincingly female to do so

Actor Victor Rueda playing Azucena in the Spanish movie Entre Las Piernas (Between Your Legs)

It Gets Better -Tona Brown

An 'It Gets Better' video from Tona Brown.

Merry Christmas 2011 TransGriot Readers!

Well, Merry Christmas people!   The Festival of Conspicuous Consumption reaches its climax today and we get to find out what gifts are under the tree for us.   Thanks to everyone who has sent me cards, dropped cash in my blog's tip jar, or sent me gifts.  It's deeply appreciated.

Another thing I deeply appreciate as I said to my readers west of the International Date Line yesterday, is you spending your valuable websurfing time here.   Since being trans is an international human rights issue, I try to cover it with that perspective on my blog

So I'm taking the day off to enjoy it with friends and family and dig into Mom's German chocolate pound cake.  Will be back to doing my normal posting schedule tomorrow.

Merry Christmas TransGriot readers!  

Happy Kwanzaa Black Trans Style-The 2011 Remix

Haban gani?   What's the news?   

Monday will begin the first day of the Kwanzaa celebration, which will run until January 1. 

Over those seven days the estimated 4 million people who celebrate the 45th anniversary of the holiday will once again familiarize themselves with the seven Nguzo Saba principles of it and ponder each one of them.

They will also ponder this year's theme which is Kwanzaa and the Seven Principles:  Sharing and Sustaining the World.

Last year I wrote a series of Kwanzaa themed posts that took each one of the seven principles and explained how they applied to the chocolate trans community and our cis African descended brothers and sisters.

Just as a refresher course, here are those seven principles that are celebrated each night:

• Umoja (Unity): To strive for and to maintain unity in the family, community, nation, and race.
• Kujichagulia (Self-Determination): To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves, and speak for ourselves.
• Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility): To build and maintain our community together and make our brothers' and sisters' problems our problems, and to solve them together.
• Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics): To build and maintain our own stores, shops, and other businesses and to profit from them together.
• Nia (Purpose): To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.
• Kuumba (Creativity): To do always as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it.
• Imani (Faith): To believe with all our heart in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders, and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.

I'm going to do another series of posts in which I focus on the Nguzo Saba, how they apply to my chocolate trans community and the GLB/SGL and cis African American ones we interact with. 

I received some positive feedback about that 2010 series of Kwanzaa posts and some of you informed me that the posts I wrote were inspiring to you as well.

Now that I've made the decision to do another seven days worth of Kwanzaa posts for 2011, I pray that I exceed the standards I set with last year's series.

I hope you enjoy what I have to say about the Nguzo Saba principles and how they apply to our African descended community taking this year's developments into account as I ponder them.

For those of you who celebrate Kwanzaa, as you light the candles on the Kinara, I hope that each post serves to illuminate positive thoughts about my chocolate transgender community and the symbiotic connection we have with you and those Nguzo Saba principles in a way you haven't contemplated them before.