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

Friday, June 22, 2012

The Root's Trans Free Black LGBT List

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Since June is Pride Month, in honor of the occasion The Root put together a list of 20 notable Black LGBT people     I was curious to see ...

Shut Up Fool Awards- Heat Beats Thunder Edition

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Well, after five games, it's over.  The Miami Heat taught the younglings from Oklahoma City how to play championship basketball and cl...

Who Is Woman Enough to Participate in the Olympics?

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Guest post from Renee of Womanist Musings We have all become accustomed to the drug testing athletes must undergo to ensure that the...
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Thursday, June 21, 2012

Good Luck Keelin!

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The US Olympic Track and Field Trials (called Athletics to the rest of the world) will kick off today and run through July 1 in Eugene, OR...

Transfaith In Color 2012 Conference Coming Soon

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Charlotte, NC in addition to hosting the 2012 Democratic National Convention this September will be hosting another edition of  another co...
Wednesday, June 20, 2012

2012 TTNS At UH-Clear Lake Approaching

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Just another reminder that we are exactly four weeks from the start of the 2012 edition of the Texas Transgender Nondiscrimination Summit ...

TransGriot Nuke A Troll 26-Why Did You Even Bother Stepping To Me?

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Been a while since I took the USS Monica out of port to sail the cyberseas for her last troll nuking mission .   But now it time to do s...
Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Goodbye, Lowell

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After five years as the coordinator for the LGBT Center at Texas A&M, Lowell Kane is leaving Aggieland and headed to Purdue Universi...

Jenifer Rene Pool To Be Houston Pride Parade Female Grand Marshal

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When the 2012 edition of our nighttime Houston Pride Parade kicks off on June 23 after the ongoing series of events that started here June 1...

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...
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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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