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

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Time For A Trans Juneteenth

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On June 19, 1865 Union Major General Gordon Granger read General Order No..3 from the balcony of Galveston's Ashton Villa and declare...
Monday, June 18, 2012

Rest In Peace Rodney King

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From Renee of Womanist Musings The beating of Rodney King was an example of police brutality that rang throughout the African Diaspor...

Sheena Monnin's Faith Based Sour Grapes

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Been following the twists and turns of former Miss Pennsylvania USA Sheena Monnin flapping her gums in the wake of her June 4 resignation ...

WWYD? Trans Diner Employee Episode

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Finally found the YouTube video of the episode of ABC's What Would You Do? that Carmen Carrera appeared in as a trans waitress bein...

Chile Activists Beginning Push For Trans Identity Law

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With Argentina's successful passage and enactment of a groundbreaking Gender Identity Law , their next door neighbors on the western s...
Sunday, June 17, 2012

Fans Gearing Up To Save GCB

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I wrote about how much I loved the backstabbing faith based antics of the ABC show GCB , which is based on the Kim Gatlin novel and set ...

Happy Father's Day, TransGriot Readers!

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Today is Father's Day, and I wanted to take a few moments of your blog surfing time to give a shout to all the people who are dads, or...

Watergate 40th Anniversary

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The next time someone gets the urge to rag on a person who is working as a security guard to pay their bills or derisively call them a ...
Saturday, June 16, 2012

Some Euro 2012 Fans Can't Say No To Racism

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The UEFA Euro 2012 tournament is being co-hosted by the nations of Poland and Ukraine June 8 through July 1.   The group play stage is win...

April Ashley, MBE!

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April Ashley was one of the first people in Great Britain to have SRS in 1960 when she did so with Dr Georges Bourou  in Casablanca, Moroc...

China Launches First Female Taikonaut Today

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Y'all know I'm a space flight junkie, and I found this piece of news to be way cool. Chinese space history will be made later to...

NY Trans Community Speaking Out Against Stop And Frisk

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The NAACP is planning a silent march tomorrow against the odious racial profiling  stop and frisk policy that the New York po-po's are...
Friday, June 15, 2012

Shut Up Fool Awards- Father's Day Weekend Edition

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Father's Day is this Sunday, where we pause and think about the Dads in our lives or the ones who are no longer here and how they shap...

Apparently, Black Women Are Making a Mistake Not Wearing Makeup

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From my Timmy's Ice Capp drinking homegirl at Womanist Musings who is all that and four bags of ketchup flavored chips. I don&...

Yo, Canada! Wonderful Week For Canadian Transpeeps

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Transpeople in the Great White North have had a wonderful week and I couldn't be happier for y'all peeps north of the 49th paralle...

4 Year Old Killed For Perception He Was Gay

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I wrote a post a while back talking about the deadly combination of homophobia and hypermasculinity in the African-American community and ho...
Thursday, June 14, 2012

Feminists Need To Stop The Rad Fem War On Transwomen

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Chelsea Sayre, one of my fellow Transadvocate columnists with whom I have disagreed with before ,  just wrote another post in which I need...

Secretary of State Clinton's Pride Message

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I still have much love for Secretary of State Hilliary Clinton despite the contention 2008 Democratic presidential primary.   She's ma...

Thanks For The Blog List Love!

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The Wherethegirlsgo blog recently put together a list of T welve Queer Blogs To Watch , and guess which blog is mentioned at Number Four o...

Trans United For Obama Launched

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As I've stated more than a few times on TransGriot, while elements of the GL community have sniped at President Obama and in some cases ...
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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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