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Friday, May 11, 2012

NBJC Applauds President Obama’s Endorsement of Marriage Equality

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TransGriot Note: The May 9 press release from the National Black Justice Coalition concerning the POTUS' marriage endorsement Washingto...

Shut Up Fool Awards-Mother's Day Weekend Edition

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Mother's Day is this Sunday, and I must take a moment to not only wish all you moms who read TransGriot a happy one, but all you peeps w...

Naw, I Ain't Moving From My Red State And Neither Should You

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I get sick of hearing from rainbow community people living along I-5, I-95, inside I-495 (the Capitol Beltway) or an interstate traversing ...
Thursday, May 10, 2012

Senate To Hold ENDA Hearings Soon

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While we know  that ENDA is not getting through the Tea Klux Klan controlled House this year, at least they can do the groundwork and build ...

Mayor Parker's Response To POTUS Declaration

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The president's big announcement also had major ripple effects in my beloved hometown since we not only have one of the oldest GLBT poli...

Mixed Emotions About POTUS Marriage Announcement

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Well, President Obama finally said yesterday in an interview with ABC's Robin Roberts (not sure if we're related) the words that e...
Wednesday, May 09, 2012

Argentine Senate Passes Gender Identity Law

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The United States rainbow community wasn't the only one getting some wonderful news today. My trans cousins in Argentina according to ...

NBJC Statement On Passage Of North Carolina's Amendment One.

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TransGriot Note: Press Release from the National Black Justice Coalition concerning the regrettable passage of the unjust Amendment One Ye...

You Want to Blame Somebody For The NC Loss...

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Don't blame the POTUS for it, as I have heard in some politically ignorant and obtuse quarters of the vanillacentric GL community today....

Rest In Peace, Brandy

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For those of you in the Bay Area, Brandy Martell's funeral will take place today.starting at 11 AM PDT in Oakland.  It will take pl...

Message To The Men Who Want To Love Us

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It takes balls pardon the pun to be a transwoman. We go through a lot of crap just to be the women we are and any cisgender man who steps ...
Tuesday, May 08, 2012

Let My Transpeople...

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Let my transpeople pee in peace without being messed with by ignorant cis people. Let my transpeople access trans specific and non trans s...

0-32?

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The polls open later today in the Tarheel State on the Amendment 1 ballot question to enshrine a same gender marriage ban (which by the way ...
Monday, May 07, 2012

NBJC Stands In Solidarity With CeCe McDonald and Community-Transgender Assault Victim Accepts Plea to Reduced Manslaughter Charge

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TransGriot Note:  The May 3 NBJC press release concerning the McDonald trial *** R eports out of Minneapolis reveal that CeCe McDona...

Imagining 'A Different World' 2K12

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With the 25th anniversary of the first episode of the groundbreaking show A Different World happening this September (and yes peeps, you wi...

There The 1% White Gay Peepul Go Again

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I've been keeping up with the ENDA executive order kerfluffle being stirred up by some quarters of Gay, Inc. It reminded me of something...
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Sunday, May 06, 2012

If You Don't Have Family In Your Life, Create Your Own

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One of the things I was thinking about as I was enjoying the company of my family and my cousin's friends at her birthday party two week...

Organized Religion Isn't The Problem

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One of the things that pisses me off as a liberal progressive Christian is hearing atheists and agnostic people on the left gleefully ba...

What Would You Do?-Transteen Trying To Come Out

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The ABC Show What Would You Do? isn't shy about tackling trans issues, and another one they took on recently was a trans teen trying to...
Saturday, May 05, 2012

2012 Esteem Awards Winners And Finalists

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I was surprised and pleased to find out last year I was one of the 2011 winners for the Chicago-based Esteem Awards.   While I was unable ...
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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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